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I switched from MovableType to Wordpress this week, something I had been putting off for a long time because I had such a highly modified install of MT with a large number of posts & comments. Because mine was a somewhat non-typical install, I had to pull a few tricks to migrate. Here's a recap, plus links to many of the sources I found useful. [Read more →]

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In the process of moving from MovableType to Wordpress, I found that MovableType will not export large numbers of entries. My blog was so big, that MT's default Export Entries feature would time out, copying less than half of my blog.

In order to export all of the entries from my large blog, I had to create the following custom Export Entries template. [Read more →]

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Since I upgraded my MovableType install a week or two ago, my del.icio.us links have not been posting properly to MT 3.33. I'm using the daily blog posting feature (always have - haven't changed it in a year or more), but it has simply stopped working. I'm wondering if maybe I don't have a setting correct in Movable Type. Anyone having this problem? Solutions? Anybody?

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I think I've updated to the newest MT. Yep, sure have.

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If you use Feedburner to manage your MovableType RSS feeds (you are using Feedburner, aren't you?!), then you may be interested in adding your comments count for each item to your feed using Feedburner's FeedFlare option. Although it was originally intended to utilize the Well-Formed Web formats, MT comment counts can be included with just a few tweaks.
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I need some MovableType help with MT 3.15. Here's my problem on another blog:

Using dynamic publishing and it's been working well for quite some time; however, I've just recently run into a problem. If I post into a top level category as the primary category, the indivudual archive for that page isn't created. If I the primary category is a subcategory, it works great - even if the top level category is an "additional category". The entries show up in the index and category archive, they just aren't available if you want to click on that entry.

Ex:
Post to DOGS = 404 error for archive page
Post to DOGS>YELLOW = works great

If I build the 3000+ entries as static, it works great. Thoughts?

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A lot of people I know would love to be able to post a password protected entry now & then. Most of the scripts that enable such posts are hard to implement & even harder to maintain.

Arvind has come up with an elegant php solution that allows you to supply a password for each protected entry - meaning you can use different passwords to give different access to guests. His version is directed at MT 3.x versions, but looks like it would be easy to implement for 2.6+ versions of MovableType.

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When I saw the demo of TypePad, the one thing that really stood out to me was the really cool edit entry interface. It turns out that the interface is HTMLArea, a very cool WYSIWYG front end.

Arvind has documented the process for adding HTMLArea to MovableType. I'm thinking this is the perfect solution for my college football blog. We've got lots of authors that don't do English, let alone HTML.

My one concern is that I've heard that it produces some fairly sloppy code. Now, "sloppy code" is a very subjective thing. I'm mostly concerned with it working versus meeting every single web standard. Anybody have any experience with HTMLArea?

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Now the folks at SixApart are starting to give me something that I can really use, especially over at the college football blog. MovableType 3.1 has some new goodies, including the option of being able to use static/dynamic page templates, future post scheduling and subcatagories. The choice of static pages for high demand (ie home page stuff) and dynamic for archives is a really great feature and gives the perfect balance for higher traffic sites.

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If you're ready to upgrade your previous verion of MovableType to version 3.0, it's pretty simple. Download the upgrade version of MT 3.0 (there's a full version, also). Next, unzip the distribution and upload all the non-image files in ASCII mode. Upload the images in Binary mode. (Do not select all the files and choose 'Auto' mode, as that generally creates problems.) Set the permissions for all cgi scripts to 755.

If you are currently using MT-Blacklist, remove all of the MT-Blacklist files. MT-Blacklist is not compatible with MovableType 3.0. With the addition of TypeKey, MT-Blacklist is moot, so you must remove those files or you will seriously damage your install.

If you are running MT 2.6 or greater or have an MySQL database running your blog, you need to run an upgrade script. If you're upgrading from MT 2.6 or greater, you only need to run the "mt-upgrade30.cgi" script. SQL users with version MT 2.5+ need to run the "mt-upgrade26.cgi" script. SQL users with version MT 2.2+ need to run "mt-upgrade25.cgi" then run "mt-upgrade26.cgi". Once the upgrades have completed, you need to delete those scripts from your server.

Complete instructions are available on the MovableType Support pages.

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