Learning Movable Type is Up Again!
20 Jun 2011 8:51pm GMT 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 and from the (almost) six years I spent working at Six Apart Europe, where I did (among other things) the support for all European Movable Type users. So what is the plan with this site? Learning Movable Type has always been and will remain a place to learn about using...
Create a Custom Feed Reader with Blogger Blog List
27 Jun 2008 11:54pm GMT 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 Type, or another blogging platform, you can make use of this Blogger feature to pull feeds into your blog. Here's what it looks like on my site - Simply Recipes: Food Blog Updates: Which is driven off of this Blogspot page: http://foodbloglinks.blogspot.com/. It's very easy to set up. Here...
MultiBlog and Upgrading to MT4
8 Jun 2008 7:46pm GMT 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 exists for tag MultiBlogEntries" The MultiBlog functionality is now part of MT4. All you have to do to update your templates is to change every instance of the tags MTMultiBlogEntries or MTMulitBlog to MTEntries and rebuild your templates. So <MTMultiBlogEntries include_blogs="2,5"...
Get An Email List of All Authors On Your System
13 Mar 2008 6:27pm GMT 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 easily import into your email client. It’s particularly useful on larger installs: <mt:Authors include_blogs="all"> <mt:IfNonEmpty tag="AuthorEmail"> <mt:IfNonEmpty tag="AuthorDisplayName">"<mt:AuthorDisplayName />" </mt:IfNonEmpty> ...
Upgrading to MT4
16 Feb 2008 8:02am GMT 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 MT3.3. The three main steps that still hold for safely upgrading to MT4 (from MT3) are: Make a back up of your database. Make sure all the plugins you use for your site have upgrades that are compatible with the new version. Install MT into a new directory in your cgi-bin. Do NOT overwrite your...