tips and tricks for movable type

display extended entry text in popup window (December 27, 2002)

How to have the extended entry text display in its own popup window.

yearly calendar archives (December 01, 2002)

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

previous and next by category (November 29, 2002)

How I modified the ScriptyGoddess script to meet my preferences.

output MT templates with MySQL and PHP (November 28, 2002)

Brenna's script for backing up your templates.

include files in comments templates (October 05, 2002)

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

comments formatting buttons (September 21, 2002)

How to add comment editing buttons to your form.

IE6 table centering bug (September 18, 2002)

Avoid centered content in IE6.

recent entries with includes (September 18, 2002)

How I display the five most recent entries from my journal on the sidebar of my blog using MT and Server Side Includes.

back up templates with "link this template" (July 27, 2002)

There's no excuse not to do it!

smartbody plugin (July 04, 2002)

Link to Adam Kalsey's plugin.

automated exports (May 04, 2002)

Link to a brilliant idea of creating an automated export file of entries every time a new one is posted.

pretty up my archive (May 01, 2002)

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

entries by category in individual archives (revisited) (April 06, 2002)

Use Multiple Templates to generate a list of other entries in the same category on an Individual Entry Archive page.

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).

entries by category in individual archives (April 06, 2002)

Use SSI to generate a list of other entries in the same category on an Individual Entry Archive page.

no pop-up comments? (April 03, 2002)

Nice tip for those who don't want pop-up comments, but would rather open them in the current browser window.

separate javascript for comments (March 25, 2002)

Link for putting the comments javascript into a separate file.

different stylesheets for each category (March 25, 2002)

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

category-specific content (March 25, 2002)

Link to how to use Server Side Includes to display category-specific content in your archives.

top referrers (March 24, 2002)

Add a popup for your TopReferrers list.

random entries (March 24, 2002)

Link for how to display random entries.

better comments link (March 24, 2002)

Make your comments popup link in MT more non-JS friendly.

printer-friendly format (March 24, 2002)

Use Multiple Archive Templates to provide a printer-friendly format.

open links in new window (March 24, 2002)

Open links in new windows with Javascript.

recent search requests (March 24, 2002)

Another to-do - which has been done.

fix this layout (March 24, 2002)

Just something I once planned to do. Nothing important here.