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July 24, 2007

Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 24, 2007

It's no secret I'm a bit of news hound for all things Movable Type. So to say finding this from Movable Tweak would be a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many times I've been working in a template, and hated the fact that I was going to have... [Full Story]

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July 17, 2007

Coding templates in Movable Type

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 17, 2007

It should be no shock to you that we use Movable Type here on the Wizbang family of blogs, and we're proud to tell everybody we do. Yes, there's a great sense of pride using an anonymous pseudonym as extol the virtues of the blogging platform we use. While we're... [Full Story]

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September 26, 2006

MT Plugin: NaughtyText 1.0

Posted by Kevin · Published: September 26, 2006 · Comments (5)

Naughty Text 1.0 is a port of Andy Yaco-Mink's NaughtyWordChars for Movable Type version 3.3 (and above). The plugin catches and cleans characters pasted in from Microsoft Word documents and other sources that contain "special" characters that tend to break site validation schemes - especially RSS. Using Naughty Text you... [Full Story]

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February 10, 2006

Cloning Movable Type Categories

Posted by Kevin · Published: February 10, 2006

One of the capabilities I need in Movable Type is the ability to clone certain features, such as categories, for use across multiple sites. After much discussion on the MT Dev mailing list I've come up with a simple and fast interim solution for the challenge of moving (cloning) the... [Full Story]

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February 1, 2006

The Essential Movable Type Plugins List

Posted by Kevin · Published: February 1, 2006

There are some plugins for Movable Type that should just be considered a requirement to any new or existing MT setup. I've christened this list of such plugins The Essential Movable Type Plugins List. There are lots of good plugins, but only a few that should be installed no matter... [Full Story]

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January 22, 2006

Movable Type Dynamic RSS Feeds

Posted by Kevin · Published: January 22, 2006

One feature that doesn't work "right out of the box" in Movable Type is dynamic RSS feeds. The reasons for this appear to be related to the implementation of the Smarty rendering engine in the dynamic publishing systems. Certain files required to enable dynamic RSS publishing aren't part of the... [Full Story]

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January 18, 2006

Dynamic Author Archives

Posted by Kevin · Published: January 18, 2006

For Movable Type users getting author archives is something akin to cracking The DaVinci code. While Movable Type includes many different template types by default, there is no provision for creating Author Archives. There have been a variety of hacks proposed throughout the years and in some future version... [Full Story]

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Movable Type Tips Archives. 1 Page.
Page: 1

Movable Type Tips Archives

July 24, 2007

Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach

July 17, 2007

Coding templates in Movable Type

September 26, 2006

MT Plugin: NaughtyText 1.0

February 10, 2006

Cloning Movable Type Categories

February 1, 2006

The Essential Movable Type Plugins List

January 22, 2006

Movable Type Dynamic RSS Feeds

January 18, 2006

Dynamic Author Archives

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