Conditional tag that displays its contents if TrackBack pings are enabled for the entry in context.

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MTIfPingsActive

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A conditional tag that displays its contents if the email addresses of all registered users are required by the weblog.

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MTIfRegistrationAllowed

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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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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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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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The following is a list of global filters that can be applied to any tag. See global_filter for how these filters can be applied. • decode_html

With a value of "1" decodes all HTML entities in the tag value. • decode_xml

With a value of "1" decodes all XML entities in the tag value. • dirify

With a value of "1" encodes the tag value into a string suitable for usage in a file or directory name. "Dirification" is a multi-step process. First the value is converted to lower case. Any HTML tags and entities are stripped. Characters that are not alphanumeric, the underscore (_) or whitespace characters...

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Creating a Search Form

Problem

Your system is configured to enable search. Now you want to make it available to readers of your weblog.

Solution

Add an HTML form to your template that submits a "search" field to the Movable Type Search script.

Discussion

Like any CGI application, we insert an HTML form into a layout to make those services accessible to readers. Here is a basic form that may be used: <form method="get" action="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>"> <label for="search" accesskey="4">Search this...

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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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Question

I don't like the default filenames Movable Type assigns to my files. Can these be changed?

Answer

Yes, you can control these filenames.

Index Templates

For Index Templates, you can change the Output File name on the Edit Template screen.

Archive Templates

For Archive Templates, you can use Archive File Templates (on the Settings > Publishing screen, under Archive Mapping1).

This feature lets you customize the names/paths of your archive files, using standard Movable Type tags. This allows you to impose a directory structure and...

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The name of the commenter.

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MTCommenterNameThunk

Populates the comenter_name Javascript variable.

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This setting determined the default setting for the Text formatting option for new entries. It can be overridden on a per-entry basis on the entry editing screen.

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Blog update pings

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From this screen, you may define what users can do throughout the parts of the system you control. All options will be defined below although their presence in the user interface depends on your own author permissions.

General Permissions

• System Administrator - Enables a user to access any part of the Movable Type system and perform any action, typically through the System Overview section of the application. In addition, this permission is required for any user who wishes to perform a system upgrade. • User can create weblogs - Allows a user to create new weblogs in the system. The user creating the...

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Editing a Template

Problem

You want to create or edit a template for your weblog.

Solution

Use the template management screen.

Discussion

Movable Type automatically installs a number of default templates when a weblog is created. These templates are fine for getting started quickly; however most users will want to customize the templates to suit their own tastes and needs.

In order to edit a template, click the Templates button in the Weblog Toolbar to get to the Templates Listing Screen. The screen is divided up using tabs, one for each template type. Find the template and...

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Running Movable Type With mod_perl

Problem

You want to improve the performance of Movable Type by eliminating the overhead of CGI.

Solution

Run Movable Type under mod_perl 1.x.

Discussion

mod_perl embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server, so that dynamic content produced by Perl scripts can be served in response to incoming requests, without the significant overhead of re-launching the Perl interpreter for each request.

Movable Type can run under mod_perl 1.x in either Registry mode or as a set of full-fledged handlers. Note that in order to run under mod_perl, you must...

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Creating a Comment Submission Form

Problem

You want to create a form that accepts comment submissions.

Solution

Create an HTML form that submits its input to the Movable Type comment script or instead use the MTCommentFields tag.

Discussion

"Displaying Comments" discusses how to lay out comments. If there isn't a way for readers to make comments, then there won't be any to display. Here is a simple, example form layout that could be used in an individual entry archive template. <form method="post"...

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Editing a Template using an External Editor

Problem

You would rather use a text or web page editor to edit a template.

Solution

Link an external file to your template and edit the file.

Discussion

Some users will find it easier to edit the template layouts in a text editor like BBEdit or a web page editor like Adobe Go Live instead of the Movable Type browser interface. You can optionally link a Movable Type template to an external file. This allows you to edit your templates while keeping the copy that is inside Movable Type synchronized with the external file.

In the field labeled "Link...

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Default category for entries

If you would like to choose a default category for all of the entries that you import, you can do so here. This might be useful if you already have a batch of entries in your Movable Type weblog, for example, and you wish to mark the newly-imported entries as Uncategorized.

If you do not choose a default category, the entries will not be assigned to a particular category (unless the entries you are importing use the PRIMARY CATEGORY or CATEGORY keys to specify their category).

If you choose a default category, and one or more entries use the PRIMARY...

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Question

I'm using the Berkeley DB, and after changing hosts/servers, I'm unable to login because the new server has a different version of Berkeley. How do I convert the database files to the new version?

Answer

Converting the DB files over to the format used by the new library version can be accomplished in several different ways, depending on the Berkeley DB versions involved. The files that need to be converted are all of the files in your db directory whose filenames end in either .db or .idx (the .lock files do not need to be converted).

The following steps require...

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Creating a Master Archive Index

Problem

You want to create a master index of your weblog's archives.

Solution

Create an index template using MTArchiveList and related tags.

Discussion

In "Creating an Archive Template" we discussed how to create pages that provide different views of a weblog's entries. No matter what type of archiving you use, you are likely to need a master list of all of your archives. Movable Type ships with such a listing as a template named Master Archive Index. In MT, the Master Archive Index is just an index template that uses the MTArchiveList tagset instead of...

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Question

How do I show all entries from the same month or category as the current entry on an Individual Archive?

Answer

If you want a list on the Individual pages which only shows entries in the same month or category as the entry, you will need to do this with a second Archive Template and a PHP (or SSI) include.

Create The New Template

Navigate to Templates and click the Archives tab1. Click Create New Archive Template.

Assign the template a name of your choosing (to distinguish it from your normal Monthly or Category Archive Template). In...

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