tips and tricks for movable type

dynamic archives by author (January 23, 2005)

The ability to provide archive listings by author has been a much requested option for Movable Type. While you can...

paginated dynamic index page with smarty (November 06, 2004)

Using Smarty to paginate your index template when publishing dynamically.

per-category individual entry archive templates (October 16, 2004)

Generate unique individual archives based on the entry's primary category.

notifications: single form for subscribe and unsubscribe (August 21, 2004)

unsubscribe, notifications, subscribe, notify list

category specific recent comments listing (January 16, 2004)

How to show a category-specific recent comments listing in your Category Archives.

show all comments for comment author (January 04, 2004)

Code to display all comments made by a particular author.

top searches using PHP and MySQL (November 23, 2003)

Displaying a list of top searches on your blog using MySQL and PHP.

lastn comments from one category (September 20, 2003)

Using PHP and MySQL to show the lastn comments on entries from one category.

configuration listing with php and mysql (September 07, 2003)

Generate a single page showing all of your configuration settings.

category count excluding one category (June 15, 2003)

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

generating fake archives (June 13, 2003)

How to fool MT into thinking archives of a certain type exist.

recent searches using PHP and MySQL (May 02, 2003)

Displaying a list of recent searches on your blog using MySQL and PHP.

generate RSS feeds by category (May 02, 2003)

Using Multiple Archive Templates to generate category-specific RSS feeds.

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.

two calendars reverse sort (February 01, 2003)

Display two calendars in reverse order using MTArchiveList and PHP.

comments leader board with php and mysql (January 29, 2003)

Show who's posted the most comments to your blog using PHP and MySQL.

individual entry trackbacks (January 19, 2003)

Pull trackback info directly from the MySQL database, courtesy of Kristine.

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

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

non-consecutive days with PHP (January 12, 2003)

Display posts from the last N non-consecutive days using PHP.

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.

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

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

quick links for blog entries (December 15, 2002)

Link to thread on using quick links in your entries to reference other entries.

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

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

previous and next by category (November 29, 2002)

How I modified the ScriptyGoddess script to meet my preferences.

MTRefSearch (November 28, 2002)

This PHP script provides useful links to visitors reaching your site from Google.

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

Brenna's script for backing up your templates.

edit link for entries with PHP (October 12, 2002)

Brenna's PHP tip for edit entry links - visible only to you.

entries with most comments (October 03, 2002)

How I implemented yet another idea from ScriptyGoddess.

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

How to have the best of both worlds.

guestbook with movable type (September 19, 2002)

How I used Movable Type to create my guestbook.

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.

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

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

edit link for comments (September 08, 2002)

Turn the comment date in your Comments Listing Template into a editing link.

smilies with MTMacro (September 08, 2002)

How I added smilies to my blog using MT Macro.

MTComments listing - link to popup (August 04, 2002)

Link to the popup version of the comments in a recent comments listing.

permalinks for comments (August 04, 2002)

Make the comment date a permalink to the comment on your Individual Archives Page.

combine descending days with ascending entries (August 03, 2002)

How to list your entries on your Main Index page in descending order, but in ascending order within each day.

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

There's no excuse not to do it!

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.

comments leader board (July 07, 2002)

Link to Kiffin's script.

collapsing entries and comments (July 04, 2002)

How to implement that "read more" feature you see on my main page.

drop-down menus (June 03, 2002)

Links to threads on drop-down menus.

photolog in 5 (May 25, 2002)

Link to a tutorial on creating a photolog in 5 easy steps.

blogdata (May 25, 2002)

Link to David Gagne's Blogdata entry.

weblogs.com manual ping (May 06, 2002)

Links for two methods of manual pings to weblogs.com.

non-consecutive days (May 06, 2002)

Link to Mena's tip for displaying the last n non-consecutive days on an index page.

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.

one year ago today, with php (April 16, 2002)

Link to Brad's PHP version of "one year ago today".

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.

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.

quick editing (March 25, 2002)

Another MT Tip from David Gagne - create a link which lets you edit the entry as long as you're logged in to MT.

email this entry (March 25, 2002)

Links for how to add a "send this entry" feature to your site.

random entries (March 24, 2002)

Link for how to display random entries.

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.

printer-friendly format (March 24, 2002)

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

smart comments (March 24, 2002)

Customizing your comment display based on how many there are.

alternating colors (March 24, 2002)

Get alternating colors by class with Javascript or PHP.