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What's the easiest way to geotag a blog post in MT4? Are there any decicated plugins, or any map-based technologies, that could make it easier for people who want to do it?
posted on May 16, 2008 - 1 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 on Feb 20, 2008 - 13 answers ![]()
How can I clean up crappy Microsoft Word code in Movable Type 4? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - 12 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 on Jan 26, 2008 - 1 answers
How can I make both the headline, and not just an entry, wrap around an image in a WordPress post? [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 3 answers
When I select text from certain websites, an example would be any article in http://www.nytimes.com, and I click on the Quickpost link in Safari, I recently started receiving the message below:
406 Not Acceptable Not Acceptable An appropriate representation of the requested resource /scgi-bin/mt.cgi could not be found on this server.Until yesterday, December 11, 2007 this Quickpost link was working properly. Now it returns the 406 error above when I try and select text for a Quickpost from some sites. The Quickpost link works normally when I select text from the http://www.nytimes.com homepage (but not a direct article) or on Google and a few other blogs. What could be causing this error on some websites and not others when I select text and click on the Quickpost link in Safari? I am using Movable Type 3.2 with Safari 3.0.4. I would appreciate any advice anyone could provide. Thanks!
Movable Type question involving the counting and sequential numbering of entries within one specific blog on a multi-blog system. [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2007 - 6 answers ![]()
Find me a content management system that can hide posts! [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - 7 answers
Very limited webhost features, very fond of content management. Help a student update things easily? [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2007 - 8 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 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 on Jun 29, 2007 - 11 answers
When I highlight text on a webpage in Safari that contains quotes (") and then click on my Movable Type Quickpost link to include the text in the Quickpost body, the quotes in the highlighted text in the browser are turned into %u201C once the text is included in the body of the Quickpost in the pop up window.
If I manually input the quotes directly into the body of the Quickpost window, the quotes do not turn into %u201C, it is only when I highlight text in a browser with quotes and then click on the Quickpost link do the quotes turn into %u201C.
Does anyone know how I prevent highlighted text with quotes from a browser from turning quotes into %u201C when using Quickpost?
I would appreciate any help or advice.
Thanks.
posted on May 29, 2007 - 4 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 on Apr 22, 2007 - 5 answers ![]()
WordPress Filter: Multiple blogs in one? [more inside]
posted 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 on Feb 28, 2007 - 18 answers ![]()
What's the best way to convert an existing Blogger blog into Movable Type? [more inside]
posted 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 on Feb 8, 2007 - 4 answers ![]()
I am trying to help someone at my work with Movable Type, but I am at a loss. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2007 - 9 answers
How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress? [more inside]
posted on Nov 18, 2006 - 6 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 on Nov 18, 2006 - 2 answers ![]()
How can I export all of the posts and comments from a Drupal story node into the Movable Type import format? [more inside]
posted on Oct 28, 2006 - 5 answers
My Movable Type blog won't let me log in. [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2006 - 18 answers ![]()
Some sort of bot is hitting my web site, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 13 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 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 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 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 on Jul 19, 2006 - 4 answers ![]()
Are there any alternative interfaces - web or desktop-based - for MovableType? I'm a Macintosh user. [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2006 - 12 answers
Can someone help me with the Movable Type CrossBlog plugin? I've installed this, and also the related HighWater plugin. But I can't get CrossBlog to work. [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2006 - 7 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 on Jul 1, 2006 - 22 answers
Does anyone know a good image uploader plugin for Movable Type that does exactly what the built in image uploader does in Typepad?
(in Typepad, when you insert an image in a post, the image code is inserted for you into the entry, and you can upload multiple images and Typepad continues to insert the image code for each image uploaded into the single entry).
I have tried NetPBM, but it only shows the html for the pop up thumbnail image, it doesn't insert the code into the entry for you. Tips and references on customizing NetPBM are also welcome.
thanks a lot!
posted on Jun 9, 2006 - 1 answers
How do I get a daily post to my Movable Type 3.2 blog of my del.icio.us links with one particular tag? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 5 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 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 on Mar 19, 2006 - 4 answers
OutlookToBlogFilter: How can I move a folders worth of emails onto a MT blog? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2006 - 8 answers ![]()
I am looking to switch my blog to TypePad a hosted Movable Type, but am having problems transferring the style sheet. [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2006 - 2 answers
Copy most recent post from Wordpress to another server? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 4 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 on Jan 10, 2006 - 4 answers ![]()
Regarding Movable Type: [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2006 - 6 answers
Arrgh... I am trying to install movabletype and i can't get past the login screen! [more inside]
posted on Jan 8, 2006 - 9 answers
MovableType: I'd really like to go back through every entry in my site and do a regular expression change so that each hyperlink is given a CSS class. Can I do this w/ some clever method? [more inside]
posted on Nov 18, 2005 - 7 answers
I'm doing some Movable Type development. I'd like to add a custom query string to the normal mt-search strings. I was hoping to use PHP to do something with the string, but unfortunately I can't run PHP in the CGI files. Any options? I'm not a CGI writer, so I may be missing something obvious.
posted on Nov 14, 2005 - 6 answers
My co-blogger and I upgraded from Movable Type 2.64 to MT 3.2, mostly for the rumored spam-fighting hottness. But now we're finding ourselves having to go through and manually junk thousands of spam comments every day, tediously picking out the real stuff. We've got the latest MT-Blacklist installed, but it doesn't seem to be doing a thing, and seems to have less functionality (where'd the de-spam option go??) than our old MT-Blacklist plugin. We're getting buried, and nothing seems to be working the way it should. What do we do? [more inside]
posted on Sep 30, 2005 - 10 answers
Who in the world can help me manage/fix/customize my Movable Type website? I am completely clueless, too busy to learn the damn program myself, willing to pay someone likeminded to help me, chomping at the bit to really get my blog off the ground. [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2005 - 8 answers
I'm looking for guidelines on publishing a lot of audio files on a web site using Movable Type. [more inside]
posted on Sep 14, 2005 - 6 answers
How can I get Gmail to whitelist all my blog comment notifications? [more inside]
posted on Sep 13, 2005 - 5 answers ![]()
I want to install phpBB on my website, but I have a basic question to which I haven't been able to find the answer yet. If I am using a MySQL database behind MT for my weblog, can I install phpBB on the same database and assume it will just build additional tables in MySQL? Or does it require a completely separate database that would be addressed differently? [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2005 - 5 answers
What are good sites/resources for figuring out how to customize MovableType templates for photoblogs? I'm finding it difficult without a WYSIWYG editor, or photoblog templates to base it on. [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2005 - 11 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 on Aug 16, 2005 - 3 answers
I'm starting to plan a new Movable Type project, and I'd like to know: What are your favorite plugins? [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2005 - 6 answers