tips and tricks for movable type

more link on same line as body (April 05, 2004)

Avoiding the default break between Entry Body and the More link.

category count excluding one category (June 15, 2003)

Display a total count of all entries in your blog excluding those in one category.

open links in new window with regex (June 01, 2003)

Using the Regex plugin to add target="_blank" to links.

suppress display of blank comment fields (May 02, 2003)

Use the MTIfEmpty plugin to avoid displaying fields which a commenter has left blank.

forced category sort by number of entries (February 15, 2003)

Display a list of your categories sorted by number of entries in each category.

first entry in blog or category (February 15, 2003)

Displaying the first entry in a blog or each category using MySQL plugin.

recent links from entries (January 27, 2003)

Brad Choate's solution for pulling links from your posts into a handy list.

lastn recently modified entries using MTSQL (January 19, 2003)

List the N most recently updated entries in your blog using MTSQL.

limit excerpt to a paragraph (January 12, 2003)

Limit excerpt by paragraph, not words.

list other category links in category archive (December 29, 2002)

Generate a list of links to your other category archives, with the current category non-linked.

monthly archives in chronological order (December 21, 2002)

Reversing the order of MTArchiveList.

no comments yet using MTIfEmpty (December 15, 2002)

Use MTIfEmpty to display a "no comments yet" message.

preventing links to empty category pages (December 03, 2002)

List all the categories in your blog, without creating broken links to empty category pages.

yearly calendar archives (December 01, 2002)

How I used Brad Choate's Year Archives in MT to create a calendar for my journal.

supplemental category tags plugin (November 02, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

escaping single quotes with regex (October 13, 2002)

Escaping quotes the hard way - but at least I learned something!

sanitize plugin (October 05, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin - and how I use it.

comments: allow HTML and autolink URLs (September 28, 2002)

How to have the best of both worlds.

AM to a.m. (September 17, 2002)

Change your date display from AM to a.m. using Regex.

smilies with MTMacro (September 08, 2002)

How I added smilies to my blog using MT Macro.

staggernation plugins (September 07, 2002)

Links to lots of Kevin Shay's plugins.

Macros plugin (August 18, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

Process Tags plugin (August 11, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

FilterCategories plugin (August 04, 2002)

Link to Kevin Shay's plugin.

Archive Date Header plugin (August 04, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

MTAuthors plugin (August 01, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

PerlScript plugin (August 01, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

Key Values plugin (August 01, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

MTAmazon plugin (July 28, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

mt support forum links problem (July 16, 2002)

Oh, yeah - this one was fun!!

smart comments (revisited) (July 09, 2002)

How to implement smart comments with the Regex plugin.

MTIfEmpty, MTIfNotEmpty plugin (July 09, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

comment author web link plugin (July 07, 2002)

Link to Phil Ringnalda's plugin.

regex global tag attribute (July 07, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugin.

custom global tag attributes (July 06, 2002)

Link to Brad Choate's plugins.

related entries plugin (July 06, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

nicknamelink plugin (July 04, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

wordcount plugin (July 04, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

smartbody plugin (July 04, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

on this day plugin (July 04, 2002)

Link to the plugin for "on this day".