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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 46 KB, 3451 words
This tutorial is written by LMT guest author Mike Everett-Lane of Ishbadiddle.
A Subject Index can give context to your posts and makes it easier for your readers to browse what you've written on specific topics. Unlike Categories, which are limited, top-down, and hierarchical, Subject tags are open-ended and limitless. While your blog's Category system is like the Table of Contents of a book, a Subject Index is like the book's Index, one that is constantly updated.
First, you might want to read my blog post on how the use of Subject Indexes can improve the organization of your blog. You can see it in action there as well as here on LMT. For instance, here's the index of all my subjects, and the index of all my posts on the subject of...
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Learning Movable Type, News, 18 KB, 254 words
Learning Movable Type now has a Subject Index which will allow you to scan for entries based on keywords, or "tags", the authors have assigned to them. Selecting a subject will not only bring you a list of entries that have been assigned that keyword, but also a list of related keywords.
Creating a subject index like this is not that hard to do; it does require several plugins and that you've assigned keywords to your entries. See this tutorial for details.
The expandable menu list Table of Contents has been moved to a separate page as well, in order to save load times on the tutorials. The list of entries was just getting too long.
I hope these changes make it even easier to find...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 20 KB, 731 words
The idea of "tags" and "tagging" has become very popular in the recent past. The idea behind tags is really that of organization and cross-referencing, though specific implementation and implementation with Movable Type varies. TechnoratiTags and ishbadiddle's subject index are examples of two different tag uses. This article is not about implementations; to find this useful you'll want to be using tags already.
I think tagging is great way of thinking. The problem, however, is that it's easy to create near-duplicate tags: "photo" or "photos," "MovableType" or "Movable Type," for example....
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Learning Movable Type, News, 60 KB, 4295 words
Learning Movable Type is now hosted on a new server and now has its own domain name - http://www.learningmovabletype.com. In the process of changing servers and changing URLs, we may have created some broken links or other site hiccups. If you encounter something that just doesn't seem to be working properly, please email me using the contact form.
Humongous thanks to Chad and Arvind for their invaluable assistance with this move.
If you link to Learning Movable Type (and we hope you do) please, please, please change the URL in your link to the new one. That way, Google will find us more easily, and those using Google to find things regarding Movable Type will find us more easily too....
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 114 KB, 4017 words
Update: A 2.01 release of MT-IfEmpty is now available, which mainly adds support for dynamic publishing in MT 3.1x.
You can download this plugin here: mtifempty-2_01.zip.
Usage: <MTIfEmpty var="EntryTitle">(untitled)</MTIfEmpty> <$MTEntryTitle$>
Embedded expression support works like this: <MTIfNotEmpty expr="[MTEntries days='1']1[/MTEntries]"> We...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 156 KB, 5988 words
This plugin allows you to define search and replace parameters for elements you produce from Movable Type templates. Keep reading for the details.
More details forthcoming-- for now I'm just providing the download link. The readme.txt in the zip file has all the relevant information.
Availability
You can download this plugin here: mtregex-1_61.zip
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Learning Movable Type, News, 18 KB, 252 words
LMT welcomes guest author Mike Everett-Lane of Ishbadiddle who has generously written up his detailed tutorial on how to create a subject index for your blog. Thank you Mike for sharing your time and expertise here on LMT! Have you found the tutorials at Learning Movable Type helpful? Please consider linking to LMT at http://www.learningmovabletype.com/ . Thanks!
Posted by elise on August 12, 2005 to Announcements | Email to a friend | Comments(2) | Printer-friendly version
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Hi Elise - I really like this announcement feature that you have. Do you have a tutorial on how to do this in MT?
Thank you.
Allyn
Posted by: Allyn at August 12, 2005 11:29 PM...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 141 KB, 5891 words
<MTPerlScript> is tag for Movable Type templates. If you know how to write Perl code, this custom tag gives you remarkable flexibility in producing pages from Movable Type. You can literally do any kind of manipulation you can think of using your Movable Type data.
This tag was written with a 'trust-the-programmer' mentality (or in this case, the template writer). There aren't any restrictions...
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mgs | September 27th 2005