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Six Apart Mena's Corner, News, 27 KB, 1220 words
As you may have seen already, Six Apart decided to take additional funding from August Capital in a series "B" round.
When it boils down to taking funds, a venture firm believes that they will achieve a significant return on their investment. Venture funding isn't about charity. We believe that we have huge potential to do some great things. Ten million dollars is *a lot* of money -- it's a sort of figure that I can barely fathom when thinking about our roots. We'll use the money to bring the company to the next level -- a cliched phrase, I know. We're going to be competing with some of the largest companies in the world and it will take money to build the sort of features that we've...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1085 words
Via PhotoMatt I found a very interesting comments thread on what is basically an argument of Movable Type vs. WordPres. Now everyone knows that I worship Movable Type, but I wish to voice some thoughts on this topic.
Movable Type and Wordpress are aimed at completely different audiences. If you upgraded to MT 3.0 you would have seen that the title was no longer "MOVABLE TYPE :: Personal Publishing System" but now was "Movable Type Publishing Platform." As can be seen from this post at Mena's Corner
One final thing. You'll notice that we're no longer describing Movable Type as a "Personal Publishing System" -- we now call it a "Publishing Platform." While "personal" remains a major...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 45 KB, 3290 words
Over time a lot of content will be generated by a site, especially a weblog or news-oriented site. Finding that content in a reverse chronological archive can be difficult and frustrating. Local search can make a site more accessible by providing readers with the means to dynamically zero in on the content they are looking for.
Built-In Search
Movable Type's public search interface originally began as an add-on to MT developed by Jay Allen before formal plug-ins existed. The code was later integrated into MT version 2.5.
The search engine provides a rudimentary means of querying an MT system for...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 30 KB, 1081 words
Currently many people refer to an MT community but I feel there isn't a proper place where this community can get together. Yes there are the forums and ProNet but the first isn't for real socializing (for lack of a better word) and the latter is geared up for devs or pros. I want a place where people will be comfortable expressing their newbiness, talking about Movable type, tips tricks, tutorial request etc. A preview is available here
Also I've been thinking about adding a type of directory service for people to list their Movable type sites for added publicity. This would be a place where people could list their blogs yet find new ones to read (this is a great way to fine new blogs...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 40 KB, 3199 words
Upgrading Movable Type
Problem
You want to upgrade the Movable Type software.
Solution
Upgrading follows nearly the same steps as installation except that you will want to perform a backup of your system before attempting the upgrade. If you are upgrading from Movable Type 3.1x or before, you will also want to migrate to the new configuration file: mt-config.cgi.
Discussion
If you're on any past version of Movable Type, version 3.2 offers a lot of features and improvements that will make managing your blogs easier. To take advantage of them, you'll need to install the latest...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 25 KB, 799 words
You have the option of either importing the entries as yourself - the author that you are currently logged in as - or creating new authors for each author name found in the original set of entries. For example, if your weblog is/was a team weblog, you would probably want to recreate the original set of authors, rather than import all of the entries as yourself. Otherwise you probably wish to simply import the entries as yourself.
If importing the entries as you, check the Import as me box.
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 26 KB, 352 words
A container tag representing a list of categories in a weblog. This tag produces output for every category with no regard to their hierarchical structure. • show_empty
Setting this optional attribute to true (1) will include categories with no entries assigned. The default is false (0), where only categories with entry assignments are displayed.
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 89 KB, 9750 words
07.27.2005
Dynamic Publishing support for PostgreSQL and SQLite
It's a common refrain for us to talk about Movable Type's wide platform support, but we really are committed to making sure Movable Type's full power is available on the widest variety of platforms. It's an investment that takes a lot of care and attention, but we think it's well worth the effort.
For example, take databases. Movable Type has long supported multiple databases, with MySQL and Berkeley DB being among the most popular. But two mature, popular open-source database technologies that a lot of our users have requested have also part of our platform support for over two years: PostgreSQL and...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 29 KB, 540 words
A container tag representing a calendar month that lists a single calendar "cell" in the calendar display.
Attributes: • month - An optional attribute that specifies the calendar month and year the tagset is to generate. The value must be in YYYYMM format.
The month attribute also recognizes two special values. Given a value of "last," the calendar will be generated for the previous month from the current date. Using a value of "this" will generate a calendar for the current month.
The default behavior is to generate a monthly calendar based on the archive in context. When used in the context of an...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 54 KB, 3878 words
With the most difficult part of running Movable Type -- the installation -- behind you, it is time to get started using MT.
It all begins with The Movable Type Content Management System (CMS). This script is the heart and soul of what makes powerful weblog publishing possible.
The CMS contains the majority of the intelligence and work flow that makes Movable Type what it is. Whether it involves posting an entry, adding a colleague as an author, or publishing your content with a whole new style, it is the CMS that is doing the heavy lifting.
By default the CMS script is named mt.cgi, although this...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 25 KB, 740 words
Working with Category Tags
Problems
You need to display category data in your published pages.
Solutions
Use the template tags prefixed with MTCategory.
Discussion
Category tags can be used to display a list of categories and their information in both hierarchical and non-hierarchical forms. These tags can be used in MTArchiveList archive_type="category", MTEntryCategories, MTCategories or MTSubCategories tag contexts. Category tags may also be used anywhere in a Category Archive template.
The basic tags when working with non-hierarchical data are as follows. (For an...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 26 KB, 854 words
Displaying a Calendar Layout
Problem
You want to create a calendar layout in your template.
Solution
Use the template tags prefixed with MTCalendar.
Discussion
Movable Type includes a collection of template tags prefixed with MTCalendar; these can be used for creating calendar layouts that serve either navigational or display purposes. MTCalendar tags are sufficiently generic to create calendars in many different formats; however, HTML tables are the most common, • MTCalendar
MTCalendar is a container tag representing a calendar month that lists a single calendar "cell" in...
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