bookmarks

mt blogroll 2.0 (04.17.05)

A blogroll manager, similar to blogrolling.com.

spamlookup (04.10.05)

Brad Choate's new Movable Type plugin for identifying and eliminating weblog spam

workflow (04.17.05)

Designed for users of Movable Type who require fine-grained control over which authors may publish content.

accessible spamproofing (05.24.03)

Phil's solution to email spamproofing

adaptive path's mt setup (07.14.03)

Whether you use Movable Type or not, the information Jay revealed in his response is too valuable to be left buried in one of the many comments on that entry.

add smilies to text (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess tip

all consuming (06.24.03)

All Consuming is an aggregation website that will let you know what the weblog community is reading. You can also create a 'Currently Reading' javascript include to put on your own website.

all consuming plugin for mt (06.24.03)

mt-allconsuming is a MovableType plugin that retrieves an All Consuming XML feed and provides a set of tags so that you can incorporate the book information in a MovableType template.

alternating comment colors (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess tip Requires PHP

apache directives (05.25.03)

A list of available Apache directives for your htaccess files

avoid duplicate trackback pings (01.01.04)

This hack modifies MovableType to prevent duplicate trackback pings for an entry.

avoiding duplicate comments (01.01.04)

This hack modifies MovableType to simply ignore the same comment being entered multiple times for an entry.

blog change bot (03.22.04)

A blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messenger when a blog you are interested is updated.

blogchatter (07.11.03)

BlogChatter is a window into weblog activity right now, at this moment. It is a real-time event stream of weblog updates, similar to the data provided by blo.gs or weblogs.com, without polling or a static data format.

blogging with movable type (01.01.04)

A beginner's guide.

book of styles (07.18.03)

Book of Styles (formerly CSS Colouring Book) is the place where Firda Beka, a CSS enthusiast who is a starving freelance web designer and a tired weblogger, shares some CSS-based, tableless layouts she created when she was bored as hugware.

brenna's page views script (05.31.03)

Keep track of how many times a page has been viewed. Requires MySQL and PHP

browsercam (06.12.03)

Browser Cam creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser, and on any operating system.

bullet-proof rounded corners (05.30.03)

Creating divs with rounded corners with CSS

bullet-proofing comments (01.01.04)

Implementing Comment Validation in a MovableType blog

bullet-proofing trackbacks (01.01.04)

Implementing Trackback Validation in a MovableType blog

calculating age (05.24.03)

Brad Choate's PHP script for MT

close comments on older entries (11.09.03)

A small script to easily close comments for entries older than X hours or X days. PHP and the MySQL backend required

cruft-free urls in movable type (11.12.03)

Mark Pilgrim explains how he achieved simpler URLs in Movable Type.

css zen garden (07.18.03)

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS based design.

custom dynamic pages (01.01.04)

Hack to use mt-view.cgi to dynamically generate an individual entry page.

custom font sizes and colors (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess hack Requires PHP

digest::md5 (05.24.03)

download link for Digest::MD5 Unpack, then upload the Digest folder to your extlib in ASCII mode.

dive into mark templates (01.01.04)

Mark Pilgrim reveals the templates used for his site.

drag and drop blog publishing from outlook (10.12.04)

OutlookMT (MagicFolder) is a utility that monitors a designated Outlook 2003 folder for items.

drop down menus without java (04.25.04)

Drop down menus without Java.

dynamically-generated individual archive pages (06.28.03)

Al-Muhajabah's how-to for using mt-view.cgi to generate individual archives on the fly

external links in new window (11.03.03)

Kalsey explains how to force all external links to open in a new window and use CSS to add an external site icon

first letter & first line pseudo elements (06.28.03)

examples of usage

floatutorial (10.18.03)

simple tutorials on css floats

frontend editing for movable type (04.25.04)

Its purpose is to edit content directly on the page or at least initiate the editing dialogue from a link close to the content.

future-proof urls (01.01.04)

Movable Type is a wonderful tool, but it doesn't really create the most future-proof URLs.

google: hands off my empty comments (10.12.03)

Just add mt-nocomments.cgi to your robots.txt file, and Google will stop wasting time indexing all your blank comments.

guide to movable type 2.6 (05.24.03)

Information on new features in MT 2.6

gzip compression of pages (05.24.03)

faster loading of php pages

how to block spambots (12.07.03)

How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell.

how to make a quick links weblog in movable type (06.16.03)

markpasc describes his technique, which includes pinging his main site with a pingToRebuild.cgi script

how to set a spider trap (10.12.03)

set a spider-web to catch rogue web crawlers and address harvesters

htaccess (05.24.03)

Using an htaccess file

info aggregator (06.22.03)

Read RSS Feeds in your Mail Client

inserting frequently updated content in movable type (12.07.03)

Using Movable Type's Object-Oriented Perl API I developed a hack to rebuild templates, or even your whole weblog, on a regularly scheduled automatic basis using Unix's cron utility.

installing mt locally on xp (03.28.04)

The end result of these install instructions is a local MT install using a Berkeley or MySQL Database, with a user-friendly interface.

kalsey's button maker (06.16.03)

a user interface to Bill Zeller's button maker application

knowspam (07.23.03)

Knowspam is an easy, effective spam-blocking service that eliminates 100% of spam. It works for anyone with a POP account.

leadin macro (05.24.03)

Brad Choate's macro for eye-catching leadins

leechftp (05.24.03)

link to download LeechFTP

lockernome's rss resource (08.13.03)

lockernome's rss resource

mailto syntax (05.24.03)

a cheatsheet for writing mailto links

make out with firefox (03.06.05)

Using Firefox extensions to enhance Movable Type.

making a dynamic upload directory (10.08.04)

Upload files into a directory structure based on the current date.

manage your projects with movable type (05.19.04)

If you've got cash, get Basecamp. If not, here's Plan B.

mt api index (05.24.03)

Index of MT API documentation

mt tags in pull-down menus (07.03.03)

The tricky part is simply remembering which tags have to appear in container tags and which can work by themselves.

mt-blacklist/comment spam clearinghouse (11.07.03)

If you are just joining us now, you may want to make a cup of tea. It’s a long read… The new home of the comment spam clearinghouse, a (temporary) centralized blacklist database of blog spam URLs. Here you will also find news about the MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable type, discussion of spammers tactics and tips for fighting comment spam.

mtclient (04.04.04)

MTClient is a Windows-based desktop blogging client designed for Movable Type weblogs. It has several advantages over the web interface for entering posts.

multiple blog updates list (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess hack by Kristine Uses PHP and MySQL

multiple blogs on a single index page (06.16.03)

sunpig's tutorial on entries from multiple blogs merged together on one page

mysql select syntax (06.07.03)

How to write a proper MySQL SELECT statement

nine things you can do to make your website better (07.05.03)

nine things you can do to make your website better

opening new windows for comments (05.24.03)

Phil gives his thoughts on the matter

optimizing mt - xml syndication (06.16.03)

part four in a series on optimizing your MT installation covers xml syndication

optimizing your mt blog for google (04.13.04)

MovableType's highly customizable interface provides a lot of opportunities to improve your hits from search engines.

perl version of the comment queue hack (10.12.03)

David Raynes offers a version of the Scriptygoddess script for those without MySQL.

php blogroll (05.24.03)

from Phil Ringnalda

php style switcher (05.24.03)

tutorial from a list apart

posted elsewhere tutorial (07.13.03)

How to add a Posted Elsewhere feature to your weblog.

protect images with htaccess (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess tip

random blog list (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess tip

relative vs. absolute urls (09.30.03)

Stepan Riha’s MTRelativeURL plugin is an incredibly easy way to generate relative URLs with MT, thankfully, wherever the plugin tags are used.

remote control javascript (06.16.03)

code to create a remote control effect

requested features list (05.24.03)

my compiled list of requested Movable Type features

restricted access posts (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess hack

reviews blog with movable type (12.07.03)

How to use Movable Type to set up a 'Quick Reviews' blog or sidebar of your own.

rss autodiscovery (05.24.03)

Phil shows us how

rss with css (01.01.04)

Many put a lot of effort into the look and feel of their website, and then watch it reduced to plain-looking HTML in RSS readers.

seven quick tips for a spam-free blog (09.13.03)

Yoz Grahame offers some solutions to ward off comment spammers.

show all posts except from one category (05.24.03)

Scriptygoddess hack for MT Requires PHP

simple amazon wishlist display (07.26.03)

a simple way to put your wishlist on any web page

sitewide rss (08.09.03)

Brad Choate shows how to create an RSS feed for your entire site.

smart templating for movable type (05.24.03)

Brad's how-to for using the Smarty Template Engine

spam wait for movable type (11.28.03)

These files will make it necessary for a person or robot to wait fifteen seconds after accessing a comment form to post a comment.

sql tutorial at w3schools (06.07.03)

An introduction to using SQL

standalone trackback (06.29.03)

Information on MT's Standalone Trackback module

test (10.08.05)

test...

the daily journal detritus (07.26.03)

One More Way to make a sidebar blog with Moveable Type

the perfect 404 (01.19.04)

Oops. Something went wrong. You're not sure what - was it you? Was it the website? What do you do now?

tiny url (07.23.03)

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?

toward a weblog editorial policy (01.01.04)

Editorial policy for Ten Reasons Why weblog.

trackbacks as bookmarks (09.26.03)

Using Movable Type's Trackback feature to maintain a list of links.

tracking entry referrers with php in mt (08.17.03)

Track referrers for each entry and at the same time be able to tell which entries are the more popular ones by keeping track of each entry's hit count. Requires MySQL

unix gal's rss feeds (05.24.03)

she shares the code

unpack tar (05.24.03)

Instructions for unpacking the MT distribution file.

upgrade mt templates to valid rss (07.10.03)

In versions prior to 2.5, Movable Type generated invalid RSS feeds. Even if you have upgraded Movable Type to the latest version, your old templates will not be automatically upgraded.

using multiple archive templates (01.01.04)

Kristine's tutorial - create print-friendly archive pages using MT's multiple archive template feature.

website optimization (07.05.03)

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/...

what is trackback? (05.24.03)

Almuhajabah's write-up on trackback