Just set up a Movable Type blog/site/whatjamacallit for the first time for someone else, and though I'm pretty tech-savvy I can't for the life of me figure out how to rename the path to the blog part of things. Help! [more inside]
posted by jaffacakerhubarb on Sep 9, 2009 - 5 answers

What's the right software to maintain and display a calendar of relatively infrequent future events, as well as blog-like news postings? I maintain a website for specialists in my field of mathematics, and one section consists of announcements for upcoming and recent conferences. Another is for news announcements: a basic blog-style list of entries. Both are currently run by our 7-year-old Movable Type installation, in combination with a good bit of chewing gum and baling twine. I'd like to redesign the whole schmear, including the back end. Is wordpress (plus more gum and twine) the right solution? Is there some other system that makes more sense? [more inside]
posted by gleuschk on Mar 22, 2009 - 5 answers

How do I get WordPress to recognize hard returns when importing Movable Type data? [more inside]
posted by avoision on Mar 3, 2009 - 3 answers

I'm looking for a way to have my Movable Type blog updated when I update my status on Twitter or post a link/image/other to my Tumblr page. I can't figure out what to do, though. [more inside]
posted by phaded on Feb 20, 2008 - 13 answers

I'm using Movable Type and would like to begin rating 800+ things on a scale of 1 to 100. I'm hoping to rate 3 a day. My question: Is there any easy way (through a plug-in, etc) to have these rankings automatically go in some type of database that someone can sort by ranking, year, genre, or any other field I wish to fill in?
posted by Mark on Jan 26, 2008 - 1 answer

Movable Type question involving the counting and sequential numbering of entries within one specific blog on a multi-blog system. [more inside]
posted by Asparagirl on Sep 24, 2007 - 6 answers

Find me a content management system that can hide posts! [more inside]
posted by aprivateperson on Aug 20, 2007 - 7 answers

Movable Type stylesheet issue: MT3.2 won't link to my stylesheet. And I can't find my problem covered anywhere (in forums or in MT's documentation. [more inside]
posted by mdiskin on Jul 21, 2007 - 11 answers

I have a personal blog running under Movable Type. I want to move to WordPress. I've exported the existing entries to a text file, so that's good. However, a couple years ago my previous MT install tanked (similar to this). I cannot access it. I have several years worth of posts that are stuck in a database that I can't get to. I've been gradually moving these by hand to my existing MT install, but that's a pain in the ass. Is there some automated way to crawl/scrape the existing HTML files in order to retrieve these "lost" entries? Some way to break back into a corrupt MT database? Some way to repair it? (The install is BerkelyDB-based.) [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Jun 29, 2007 - 11 answers

Can I use a desktop blogging client to upload posts but keep them 'Unpublished' in Movable Type? What exactly happens when Movable Type publishes? [more inside]
posted by reflexed on Apr 22, 2007 - 5 answers

WordPress Filter: Multiple blogs in one? [more inside]
posted by fogster on Apr 17, 2007 - 9 answers

What's the best way to diagnose why Movable Type hangs when trying to rebuild my site? [more inside]
posted by avoision on Feb 28, 2007 - 18 answers

What's the best way to convert an existing Blogger blog into Movable Type? [more inside]
posted by MythMaker on Feb 10, 2007 - 3 answers

Movable Type: is there a plugin/hack that would make it easy to insert a different line of code depending on a selection from a pull-down menu? [more inside]
posted by XQUZYPHYR on Feb 8, 2007 - 4 answers

(Blogfilter) I've had a BlogHarbor blog for ages and want to move all the posts to TypePad. Problem is, BlogHarbor exports an XML file that Typepad can't recognise. [more inside]
posted by Sifter on Nov 18, 2006 - 2 answers

I'm working on transitioning a blog from Movable Type to Wordpress, and I'm getting hung up on one technical issue [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Aug 17, 2006 - 5 answers

Has anyone come across a Movable Type blogroll plug-in similar to this Wordpress blogroll plug-in (in that it can expand and contract)?
posted by jeanmari on Jul 27, 2006 - 5 answers

Anyone know of a decent PHP class or function library out there for externally posting to various weblog packages (Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type) via XML-RPC? [more inside]
posted by frenetic on Jul 25, 2006 - 5 answers

Movable Type PHP library: is it possible to use the PHP library in the same fashion as the perl library? [more inside]
posted by xmutex on Jul 19, 2006 - 4 answers

This week my blog (languagehat.com) had an unprecedented flood of weird spam; as I was in the midst of deleting another chunk of it, I found myself locked out of my MT control panel (when I try accessing mt.cgi, I get "Invalid login"). Songdog, who helps me with stuff like this, posted a report at the Movable Type Community Forum, where you can find the horrid details; unfortunately, since I'm still using MT 2.63, there's not much in the way of support, and nobody's responded at the forum. If anybody here has suggestions, I'm all ears and deeply grateful.
posted by languagehat on Jul 1, 2006 - 22 answers

Individual entries on my MT 2.6x installation are archived using their trimmed entry-names (i.e. blog.com/trimmed_entry_na.php). I'd like to make the filenames longer from now on (trimming to 30, probably), but I think that if I change the parameter in my Archiving prefs and rebuild, it's gonna go and change the filenames of all my preceding entries too. This I don't want. Is there a way to change the trimming for filenames, but only "from now on"?
posted by Marquis on Mar 20, 2006 - 3 answers

I'd like to be able to search my (MovableType) blog via Google Blogsearch, but they only update via RSS. [more inside]
posted by dmd on Mar 19, 2006 - 4 answers

OutlookToBlogFilter: How can I move a folders worth of emails onto a MT blog? [more inside]
posted by softlord on Feb 18, 2006 - 8 answers

I have a CSS class that displays "correctly" in Safari and Mac IE, but for some reason knocks the font size down in Firefox and IE under XP. Everything looks right to me, but I'm not a CSS expert by any means. Anyone care to take a look? [more inside]
posted by aaronetc on Jan 10, 2006 - 4 answers

Regarding Movable Type: [more inside]
posted by edgeways on Jan 9, 2006 - 6 answers

How can I edit out the title of the del.icio.us daily post without editing the title out for my regular posts on my movable type 3.14 blog. [more inside]
posted by Mroz on Aug 16, 2005 - 3 answers

The company I work for wants to get on the blog bandwagon and I need to get things set up. Right now our website is hosted by Verio on a co-located server running Windows. [more inside]
posted by ssmith on Jun 15, 2005 - 8 answers

I'm a TypePad user, moving to Movable Type. I know that MT is much more powerful, but out of the (virtual) box, it is lacking in a lot of the cool features (book lists, photo albums, blogrolls) that TypePad has built in.

What's the best place for a n00b like me to go to start bringing MT into line with what I had in TypePad? I've been slogging through the MT Plugins site, but if there's an even easier guide out there, I'll gladly admit I'm an MT loser and just paint-by-numbers!
posted by baltimore on Jan 8, 2005 - 11 answers

As a self-imposed php refresher, I've recently been toying around with writing custom movable type submission frontends for a few less web-literate family members (Basically just simplified forms that throw the user input into the MT mysql database). I've got everything ticking along nicely, but none of the submitted entries will show up until I log in and rebuild the site from within movable type. My question: Is there some way to either force a rebuild from a custom form, or automate a rebuild? I've searched the MT forums with no success. I'm using MT 2.64 with minimal knowledge of its inner workings. Any suggestions / pointers / links are appreciated!
posted by adamkempa on Sep 8, 2004 - 6 answers

I blog a bit, but I'm not really 'in' with the community, so I miss tips and tricks. Some months ago, a colleague of mine that I've lost touch with was using a windows program to update his Movable Type blog, ie he didn't have to use the MT web editor. Does anyone know what the program was, and whether there's a similar mac program?
posted by ascullion on Jul 27, 2004 - 6 answers

I'm looking to import entries from another journalling system into MT, but I lack the scripting skills necessary to convert the entries into an MT-friendly format. [Less inside. Less is more!] [more inside]
posted by Jairus on Jul 13, 2004 - 5 answers

I'm thinking of establishing a new personal web site for the risque/opinionated stuff that I don't want on my family-oriented site. The thing is, I'm not convinced that MT and it's bloggerific ilk nor Nuke and it's bastard children can maintain the stylized newspaper/-zine site that I want to erect. What other styles of free or dirt-cheap CMS software are out there that I should consider for the new site?
posted by ringmaster on Mar 5, 2004 - 10 answers