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My Wife Hates Movable Type!

smithmac_99 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:58:51 -0800

Can you import a MT Blog into blogger?

Easy image insertion in MT

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:22:20 -0800

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? What I'd like to do is replicate an old format on my blog posts seen in earlier posts here.

For all those posts, I was simply inserting the IMG tags in the actual title line of the post. That's obviously both cumbersome and bad coding.

What I'd like to do is have some kind of option in my edit window where I can select an item from a dropdown menu, or write in a keyword or something, and then the corresponding icon graphic appears in the post. As the page I linked to shows, I'd prefer it to be able to have "no icon" as an option, as well as possibly different sizes. (The former is a much bigger deal though)

The closest I came was CustomFields, but it didn't seem to be doable as it's not complex enough to correspond image tags to a selection field.

I guess the best comparison would be those weird "current mood" things on LiveJournal, etc. Except instead of selecting the mood and having it display the mood I'm in, a corresponding picture would be there.

I have this nagging suspicious this is a simple thing to do and the answer is right under my nose but I've tried unsuccessfully for a month now to come up with an idea.

I can't access my blog's MT control panel

languagehat — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:45:51 -0800

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.

Help me with MT filename trimming.

Marquis — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:47:21 -0800

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"?

Why does MySQL keep restarting?

paul_smatatoes — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:40:34 -0800

MySQL Hell: I've spent most of my vacation trying to figure out why MySQL has gone nuts. It's part of a Movable Type install with tons of posts, comments, and log entries, and it's always run smoothly before. The problem is that it'll bomb on random queries, seemingly every minute or two, since status queries always show uptime in tens of seconds. Repairing the larger tables and restarting the server has done nothing, and no major changes have been made. What's wrong? Is this a *nix issue, a MySQL issue, or an MT issue? And how do I go about telling the difference, or fixing any of them? The hosting company's tech support, while generally useless ("not our job", they say) at least reassured me that we're running within MySQL's capabilities. Still, when I try to truncate MT's log table (via SSH), it loses the connection after two or three minutes.

85% of my web work has been on SQL Server and in ASP, but I know my way around a command line and have a good grasp of database theory. Yet I absolutely can not figure this out. Please help!

How do I do a global wordcount in MT?

Marquis — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:22:12 -0800

How do I get a global wordcount for every post made on my MT 2.66 blog? MT Wordcount only seems to have tags for obtaining the number of words in each entry. I want to know the big number that is the total sum for all (558) entries on the blog.

Apparently MTWordStats used to do this, but the plugin's no longer available.

Thanks!

Blog software that supports PostgreSQL

Plutor — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:47:27 -0800

I'm interested in moving away from Moveable Type for my blog. Unfortunately, the only DBMS my webhost provides is PostgreSQL. Wordpress doesn't support it. Blosxom seems promising, but I'm behind a firewall and proxy at work, so web-based management is a must. I'm very technical; enough so that I'm considering writing my own blog CMS, and only the time investment is holding me back. What are my options? What do you recommend?

MoveableType

adamkempa — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:54:39 -0800

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!

Why do I get blank text in MovableType 2.661 on IE6 until mouseover or scroll up?

soyjoy — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:12:41 -0800

Blank text in Movable Type 2.661 on IE 6 - until mouseover or scroll - then text shows up. What's going on? I run a few MT blogs and encountered this previously with an earlier version of MT. When you first go to the page there's a field of white instead of text. But the text immediately shows up if you mouseover it or scroll to get the screen to redraw it.

In the previous case, it seemed that the CSS didn't want "blogbody" to have any hard HTML display elements like horizontal rules in it. At least, the problem stopped when I replaced the horizontal rules with CSS-generated rules. But this is now happening on both the extended entry (individual archive template) and on the pop-up comments window, the latter of which I have done nothing to change from the template other than editing the color of the banner in the CSS. Has anybody encountered this bizarreness? I've trolled the MT forums without any success.