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Brad Choate, Plugins, 380 KB, 17642 words
Textile is a ‘Humane Web Text Generator,' created by Dean Allen of Textism. After seeing Textile in action, I decided that I must create a Movable Type plugin that does the same thing.
I came to that decision before Movable Type 2.6 and the custom text filter thing were announced. In fact, seeing Textile spurred me to write to Ben about a way for MT users to have more text formatting choices and the option to select them on a per-entry basis. To my delight, he replied that "it's already in the works."
So here we are a couple of months later. MT 2.6 is in beta (and very near to release)...
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MezzoBlue, Tutorials, 12 KB, 665 words
Two quick CSS tricks that I've been relying on more and more lately: • Applying positioning to a parent element, to allow absolute positioning of a child element within the parent. • Context-sensitive elements. Chaining classes by applying two or three or more to the highest parent element possible allows cascading down to deep child elements.
Positioning
Something I've only recently wrapped my mind around is that if you position a parent element by using absolute or relative positioning, you can absolutely position any child elements from the edges of the parent.
Too abstract? Try this: apply position: relative to a <div>, without supplying a top or left value. Then apply...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 27 KB, 579 words
Question
When running any of the Movable Type CGI scripts, I receive an error that says Can't locate Some/File.pm in @INC (where Some/File.pm is the name of a particular file).
Answer
• Run mt-check.cgi to ensure that all of the Perl modules required for Movable Type usage are installed on your webserver. If they are not, follow the instructions in the Installation Documentation. • Check to make sure that in the directory containing your CGI files (for example, mt.cgi), there is a directory called lib; inside that the file in the error message (for...
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Brad Choate, Tutorials, 156 KB, 6962 words
Matt Haughey has a great article on how he uses Movable Type to do it all (apparently, Kottke does too… can't wait to see his article).
Anyhow, I wanted to share a tidbit in that vein. I've just set this up recently, and I'm in the process of moving the rest of my static content to use it. What I did: • Created a new Movable Type blog and named it "bradchoate.com: Static Content". • Deleted all the Index templates. • Deleted all the archive templates, except for the Individual archive template. • Made sure individual archives were enabled. • Made the archive path the root...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 24 KB, 827 words
Six Apart has a variety of support options and self-service resources for you to choose from. This chapter provides pointers to those options so that you can get help when you need it. An overview of Movable Type support options can be found online at http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support.
Users who have purchased a paid license for Movable Type 3.0 or above get access to Basic and Advanced personal support options.
Basic Support includes access to our Members-Only Knowledge Base and use of an online help ticket system to request assistance with Movable Types features. To access the Basic Support...
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PubHacks, Tutorials, 6 KB, 127 words
Required: Java
Here's a little script I went looking for after seeing it on some folk's sites. Piece of cake. Put this in the <head> of your comment listing template:
<!--Script for live comment preview --> <script type="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="Javascript"> <!-- function ReloadTextDiv() { var NewText = document.getElementById("DynamicText").value; var DivElement = document.getElementById("TextDisplay"); DivElement.innerHTML = NewText; } //--> </script>
Then just stick this where you want the live preview to appear:
<span id="TextDisplay"></span>
and put this inside the textarea tag
id="DynamicText" onKeyUp="ReloadTextDiv();"
so it looks like...
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geekmum {movable cafe}, Tutorials, 17 KB, 223 words
My MT Activity Logs were FULL of plugin errors pointing to Blacklist, BookQueueToo, Blogroll, and QuickLinks. (essentially, any plugins that are in their own dedicated directories inside mt/plugins) These plugins have always worked without fail from the front end, so I was mystified at the copious error messages suggesting they could not be found.
Here is just one sample of a variety of similar messages:
Plugin error: /home/user/domains/domain.net/public_html/mt/plugins/Blacklist/Blacklist.pl Can't locate Blacklist/Plugin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: plugins/Blacklist/lib ./plugins/BookQueueToo/lib /home/user/domains/domain.net/public_html/mt/
Searching the MT Support Forums and google pointed me to a very simple solution. In each plugins .pl file I edited the "use lib" line to include the full path per the following example:...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 93 KB, 8407 words
09.29.2004
Behind the Scenes - Brenna Koch
Behind The Scenes is a new series where we here at Six Apart discuss what tools (software, technology, etc.) we use to do our work.
I'm Brenna Koch and I work in technical support for Six Apart. If you're curious, "Cook" is how you pronounce my last name. I usually hear "Cotch" since that's how it is said in some areas and I also hear more ah... interesting variations. But now you know.
We have many browsers around in the support department but my favorite is Safari. I utilize keyboard commands with my bookmarks bar for fast access on the sites I use all the time like my test weblogs and pages in the help system...
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mgs | September 27th 2005