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Learning Movable Type is Up Again! 21 Jun 2011 | 08:51 am
It has been a while, but Learning Movable Type is finally alive again! Many thanks to site founder Elise Bauer who has graciously passed me the torch. You might know me from my other MT-related site...
Create a Custom Feed Reader with Blogger Blog List 28 Jun 2008 | 11:54 am
Have you ever wanted an easy way of showing a simple feed of your favorite sites within your blog? Blogger has a cool new feature called Blog List for Blogger blogs, and even if you are using Movable ...
MultiBlog and Upgrading to MT4 9 Jun 2008 | 07:46 am
If you use the MultiBlog plugin by David Rayners and you upgrade to MT4, when you go to rebuild your site, you may get the following error message: "Publish error in template 'Main Index': No handler...
Get An Email List of All Authors On Your System 14 Mar 2008 | 05:27 am
This article was first published at Movable Tweak. This little snip of code will dump out a list of all the users and their email addresses on your install in a comma-delimited format that you can ea...
Upgrading to MT4 16 Feb 2008 | 09:02 pm
Over the last few major version changes, Learning Movable Type has published guides to upgrading safely, without risk of messing up your blog. The most recent tutorial was A Safe Way to Upgrade to MT3...
Creating a Google Toolbar Button for Your Blog 16 Feb 2008 | 07:28 pm
Creating a custom button for your blog to be used on the Google Toolbar is a great way to promote your blog. Once installed, the button can act as a graphical bookmark to your site. You and your reade...
Template Macros: The coolest template trick you don't know about 16 Feb 2008 | 08:42 am
Recently when working on updating the Photo Gallery plugin to work with Movable Type 4.1 I found myself neck deep in some of the most complicated Movable Type templates I have ever seen. Of course, th...
How to Customize Default Styles in MT4 11 Feb 2008 | 11:04 am
Okay, so you've created a new blog in MT4. You've followed the system prompts and have picked a style from the available defaults. Now you want to customize the style you've chosen, perhaps use a diff...
Running Publish Queue under daemontools 28 Jan 2008 | 11:05 am
In Movable Type 4.0 users had the option of offloading the task of publishing to a separate program or application called Publish Queue. This had the advantage of dramatically increasing Movable Type'...
Fighting Hotlinkers with htaccess 28 Jan 2008 | 07:45 am
If you have a blog with reasonably well conceived content, and have had this blog for any length of time, you will undoubtedly encounter content scrapers, people bottom-feeding scumbags who republish ...