tips and tricks for movable type

MTCommentAuthorLink and Sanitize Specs (May 29, 2003)

Getting them to play nicely together.

next N and previous N entries (May 07, 2003)

Nesting the MTEntryNext and MTEntryPrevious tags to get multiple entries in a listing. Also features a method using the Again plugin.

previous and next on your calendar (March 09, 2003)

Navigational links on the calendar.

link to previous entry on main index (December 29, 2002)

Code snippet for one entry on your main page, with a link to the previous entry at the bottom. Second snippet for more than one entry.

MTEntries lastn with offset (December 27, 2002)

Combining lastn with offset in your MTEntries tag.

monthly archives in chronological order (December 21, 2002)

Reversing the order of MTArchiveList.

automated mailto link for an author (November 06, 2002)

Avoid hard-coding an author's email address.

recent comments listing (November 01, 2002)

Here's the code I use to list Recent Comments in my sidebar.

include files in comments templates (October 05, 2002)

Using MTInclude in your Comments Listing Template to mimic SSI or PHP.

MTBlogEntryCount and MTBlogCommentCount (September 21, 2002)

What can you do with these tags?

MTArchiveDate and MTArchiveDateEnd (September 21, 2002)

Using these two MT tags to change the display of your archive listing dates.

mt support forum links problem (July 16, 2002)

Oh, yeah - this one was fun!!

MTPings behavior (and hack) (July 05, 2002)

Something you should know about MTPings - and a hack to get around it.

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.

pretty up my archive (May 01, 2002)

Yet another to-do - that I halfway finished. Heh.

wander-lust (April 16, 2002)

Syndicate your site with Wander-Lust.

dangling separator when listing multiple categories (April 06, 2002)

A great example of how to use the MTSetVar and MTGetVar tags (but now MT has the glue attribute).

MTEntry tags within MTComments (April 03, 2002)

Link for a hack to allow the use of MTEntry tags within MTComments (no longer necessary!).

different stylesheets for each category (March 25, 2002)

Link for how to use MTEntryCategory to apply a different stylesheet to each individual archive page.

one year ago today (March 24, 2002)

How I used the MTEntryExcerpt and MTEntryIfAllowComments tags to implement a "one year ago today" feature on my journal.