Movable Type
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Anil Dash has written up was really ought to be considered the Cliff Notes version of MT’s scattered documentation. This is a great reference for new users of Movable Type, and it’s especially handy for web designers who want to give their clients something a little less intimidating than SixApart.com.
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Easy Templating with Individual Entry Archives
If you’re like me, you don’t like to code in theory. You’re constantly rebuilding your templates to be sure that everything looks the way you want it to. This is fine when you’re working with an index template. You can simply rebuild that one template and view your changes. But making changes to your individual... Read More
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(This article was cross-posted here at Learning Movable Type.) I’ve never liked the idea of a seperate comment preview page. Besides being overkill, it often gets missed during upgrades and becomes just another bug to squash. So after picking up some good ideas from Mike Industries, I decided to toss it to the curb and... Read More
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I’ve always used Movable Type to manage my style sheets. I’m a WebDev Extension junkie, so I typically tweak my CSS there and then copy/paste it into my style sheet template, save and rebuild. I’ve actually found this to be alot faster and easier (and far more dangerous) than saving it to a local file... Read More
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A Few (More) of My Unfavorite Things
In the spirit of beating dead horses (making things better), I’ve continued my wish list for MT changes: Real Power-editing: Marie from disarranging.com mentioned in the previous article that the power editing mode should allow for assigning multiple categories. I personally think the power editing mode could use even more oomph than that. How about... Read More
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After my little rant the other day about the differences between MovableType and WordPress, I got thinking about more about their interfaces. In my argument I begged the question that MT’s interface is much slicker, but I’m sure some people feel otherwise. After the recent release of Shuttle, a redesign *yawn* of WordPress’ administration panel,... Read More
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After literally hundreds of hours of work on this project, we (Arvind, Elise and I) are finally doing what every good parent has to do–letting our baby wander out into the world. Meet our baby: Basically, it’s a chance for web designers to get paid for doing what they love (except for me, who volunteered... Read More
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Well, this stew has been simmering for several months now, and it’s exciting to see things taking shape as this Style Contest becomes a reality. What’s this? *designers poke heads from cubbies like prarie dogs* A Style Contest? Oh yes, I should have said. Many months ago, Arvind and Elise approached me with the brilliant-yet-obvious... Read More
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Protect from Contact Form Hijaacking
We’ve been spending some time on static publishing in Movable Type, because that’s really not what it was “made” for per se, and it takes some extra doing to make static content easy to access. In that spirit, I wanted to share my experiences with contact forms. As part of the whole Movable-Type-as-my-CMS philosophy, I’m... Read More
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Arvind Satyanarayan of Movalog.com has created a gem of tutorial, a plugin-creation for beginners as it were, something sorely lacking from the MT scene. In plain terms and screen caps, he walks through the amazing functionality Movable Type offers to plugins and shows how to harness this power. Got some great ideas in your head... Read More
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A More Graceful Template Module
In a previous article I spent a good deal of time working through the concept of powering an entire site with Movable Type, and one of the biggest questions we dealt with was “what do I do with content that is shared across multiple template (and even blogs)?” After working at length with Arvind and... Read More
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It’s calling itself “the social browser” and claims to be the champion of Web 2.0. Visit the site and you’ll find humongous type and a free-spirited blurb about the way the web should work, but what is Flock and should you be excited about it? It claims to be one of the first browsers that... Read More
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Powering Your Whole Site with MT
A question that is raised by serious professionals considering Movable Type for their CMS needs is “What about static page?” Obviously MT was made for dynamic pages. Turning a list of entries into well organized websites is what MT does best. But it’s those individual, doesn’t-quite-fit-in-the-flow, static pages that can cause grief, consternation and if... Read More
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Far from dirtying diapers and burping up formula and mushed peas, Movable Type is aging quite well. It’s gone from the experimental code Ben and Mena first cooked up to a full-fledged, more-than-you-bargained-for CMS that has everyone talking (read: powered by and fuel for discussion). And the future looks bright, with people like Jay, Chad,... Read More
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Note: This hack is outdated with Movable Type 4.x. Your best bet is to move on… Movable Type gives you an amazing amount of control over your content, but one of the things that it sorely lacks is the ability to make massive changes to all of your entries at once. Oh sure, you can... Read More
