plugin
| 20 December 2010
In addition to my homegrown, coded solutions, a fourth, and considerably neater and more sophisticated solution, comes in a read more
plugin
| 8 September 2010
So I was bashing my head against a wall trying to figure out how best to specify a default category for all posts — one to which, if no category was specified, a post would be assigned, particularly in... read more
MovableType has this incredibly beautiful thing called variable interpolation. As I understand it, what this means is that you can define a variable somewhere and then reference it at another place altogether. You can even use it to supply a value for a template tag modifier, another variable, or... read more
I’ve said this before, and I’m not the only one: the MT Forums is the clunkiest, most bizarre, user-unfriendly community service conceivable. To call it a ‘service’ is to give it credit it... read more
Design
| 11 July 2010
The historical fascination with “date-based” entries continues to invade all blog systems and software and many CMS platforms. Even today, every version of MT has provisioning for calendars... read more
These things are never easy, but you can’t delay them indefinitely. For months I’ve struggled with MT5. It works just fine — up to a point. If it’s just the basics you want, and if you’re happy to live without almost every bell and whistle, and if you can wrap your head around the completely rejigged... read more
If you want to sort your categories in some customized order — i.e., not alphabetically, which is the MT default — there are some solutions. I’ve tracked down three different solutions. (Note that I am now running MT 3.35, and I’m not sure Solution #3 below works in anything below version 3.3x.) - Use the RegEx Plugin;
- Use the CustomFields Plugin;
- Use category...
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After years of doing it donkey-style, I finally figured the easiest and fastest way to upgrade MovableType. I was moving from Version 3.33 to 3.35, so all references are to that. Here’s my very own Martha... read more
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