Software
| 21 November 2012
I love two of Stardock’s software products: Objectdock and Fences. The former works seamlessly, giving me a very cool customisable launch bar that is very like the one on a Mac and an acceptably close approximation to the custom toolbars of Windows XP (I have no idea why Microsoft took that away from us).
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plugin
| 11 November 2012
Field Day is a plugin for Movable Type that lets you add more fields to the MT interface. How is it different from MT’s built-in “Commercial Pack” implementation of custom fields?
- You can define fields for templates, assets, comments, and blogs, as well as system-wide fields.
- Linked object field types let you connect any supported object type to any other.
- By organizing fields into groups and allowing multiple instances of each group, you can allow users to associate an unlimited amount of data with a given object.
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plugin
| 11 November 2012
SanitizeBlogs 2 is a variant of the mt-plugin-SanitizeBlogs by Six Apart. While the Six Apart version sanitizes blogs based upon a blog URL prefix (useful for blogs published under the Community Platform), the present variant is more useful for a blog farm where you want all blogs to be sanitized with the ability to refine or prevent the sanitization for selected blogs.
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plugin
| 28 October 2012
I wanted [AutoLink][1] to be what the now-defunct [QuickLink][2] was, a complete replacement alternative. I take text mytext and I get something like this:
<a href="someurl" title="URL Title" target="_blank">My Expanded Text</a>.
AutoLink doesn’t do that. You have to make changes to: create.tmpl; CMS.pm and Plugin.pm to achieve this.
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plugin
| 20 December 2010
In addition to my homegrown, coded solutions, a fourth, and considerably neater and more sophisticated solution, comes in a dedicated plugin from H. Fujimoto.
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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 a multiblog environment.
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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 a value for a template tag if the tag takes one.
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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 does little to earn.
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