Blog It: Connecting Social Networks and MT
A Facebook app that lets me syndicate my post to Facebook, if I post from within Facebook. Unfortunately forces me to give up a number of features I use regularly, and it looks like there’s no easy way to convert my set-up to use it. Might be if I upgrade to MT 4, tho, which seems more desirable now that Action Streams is out too.
Jun 8, 2008 in Movable Type | Comment
Presenting Movable Type 4.0
“This is the biggest release of MT ever, a complete redesign of both the front end information architecture and the back end scaling infrastructure.” Phew. I don’t think I’m up for an upgrade right now.
Aug 22, 2007 in Movable Type | Comment
CrossBlog on Movable Type 3.2
“If you want to post an entry from one Movable Type blog to another - it is like posting on two blogs in one shot - even if they are on two different servers, use the CrossBlog plugin… Nevertheless, the author of CrossBlog warns you about some potential incompatibility issues with later versions of MT such as 3.2… To save you part of the trouble, here are some necessary tweaks to make CrossBlog successfully work on MT 3.2.”
Dec 11, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
Google SiteMaps for Movable Type
Automatically generate the sitemaps that Google uses to determine page update frequency and importance.
Dec 11, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
Fixing Movable Type's non-permanent permalinks
Movable Type’s export function is broken — it doesn’t preserve permalinks. I got around this in my last migration by exporting the whole MySQL database that provides the back-end for this site, which created a very large export file. Using this small hack might be easier.
Dec 8, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
Movable Type Plugin: CrossBlog
“Adds a tag allowing one blog to add an entry to another Movable Type blog — even on a different system.” Could replace my current use of RSS feeds to cross-post my WadeArmstrong.com entries here.
Dec 4, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
NaughtyWordChars
“NaughtyWordChars is a plugin to strip malformed characters out of posts pasted in from Microsoft Word documents.” Replaces them with either the ASCII equivalent or appropriate character entity. Also works on text pasted from… well, just about anywhere.
Dec 3, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
Using mod_security to shield Movable Type from Blog Comment Spam
Sep 20, 2006 in Movable Type | Comment
Compare Plugin for Movable Type
Gives you more ability to set and compare variables than the default installation of MT.
Trackback is dead
Absolutely true. Trackback was designed as a way that others could automatically post a note on an entry in your blog if they made an entry in their blog that referenced your entry. About a year ago I started getting tons of Trackback spam; I eventually was forced to turn off access to Trackback (using .htaccess) to stop the over 50 spams I was getting per day (and 0-1 legitimate Trackbacks). It’s sad, another service killed by spammers.
MOVABLE TYPE 3.16 - KNOWN ISSUES
“It is impossible to create two categories with the same name, even if they have different parents (on MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite).” Aha, that explains that. Well, hopefully they’ll fix this bug (or I’ll figure out a clever way to work around it… maybe blog-distinct naming conventions?).
SpamLookup
Spam filtering for MT Trackbacks and Comments. Maybe a reason to stop blocking trackbacks with .htaccess?
MyBlogLog
“Wouldn’t it be great to know what content your readers like the most? MyBlogLog enables you to track when outgoing links are clicked by your visitors.” Sounds like a great tool, although I would imagine that they harvest the information of who clicks on what links. (Not just a Movable Type thing, for any site.)
Getting The Most Out of MT-Blacklist
A tutorial to use blacklisting to keep people off your blog!
MT-Close
“I have created a small little MT application that will close the entry to comments (and pings if you so desire) for any entries older than a given number of days (defaults to five).”
MT-DSBL - Open proxy comment filter
“On occasion, you may see a MT log message saying that a comment was blocked because it came from a known open proxy. That’s how you know it works.”
SharpMT
“I tried a few different tools out there that promised exactly that: offline authoring. However, most of these applications were written with the most generic set of blog fields possible, to support the largest number of blogging servers possible. I use MT and I needed all of the fields that MT specifically offers, so these existing tools didn’t work for me. Also, I found that when I wanted to link new entries to existing entries, I had to go online and dig through my old posts to find the article link, which was painful at times. And so I started SharpMT.”
Zempt
A full-featured desktop application for running your MT-based blog.
Comment Spam Load Threatens MT Installations; Update Forthcoming
Much of the MT 3 redesign was put out there to stop comment spam. But a soon-to-be-fixed bug may have made comment spam as much as, or more of, a problem than before. A fix is in test already.
Migrate Your MT 2.x Blog To Movable Type 3
Mostly useful.
Auto-Accepting Certain Posts In MT 3 Without Using Typekey
“Well no, not quite. This set up also means that I have to moderate my own. comments. Not much point in that really - I’m always going to let me post, right? So, what I was looking for was a way to require moderation for everyone’s comments, except my own. And I found it.”
Six Apart Professional Network
Developer resources + free 5-user commercial edition = very good deal!
Using MT For Slideshows
“Using [Eric Meyer’s] primer and a little bit of custom templating in Movable Type, it’s easy to create a template that can show your recent blog posts as a slideshow.”
Post del.ico.us bookmarks to MT blog?
A simple way to automatically, and daily, post your del.ico.us bookmarks to your MT blog. Maybe time to switch?
Highlight Google Results
If a Google search sends you to my page, this could highlight your search terms!
MT Plugins
A bevy of plug-ins for Movable Type.
Supplemental Calendar Tags
“This plugin provides a couple of new tags to enhance Movable Type calendar publishing.”
MT-Blacklist
For those who saw the comment spam a few days ago, this is a good way to stop the spam from getting posted. Will install if necessary.
Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type
How to customize Movable Type to use keywords or other useful terms in its page names, rather than numbers, filenames ending in .html, etc.