I'm building an extra layer on top of Movable Type for integration with another system. Part of this involves pre-processing and filtering requests before they get to the MT scripts (comment control, translating external users into MT users etc). For example, new comments to posts are submitted to a script in the new layer before reques...
I'm not of the Perl world, so some of this is new to me. I'm running Ubuntu Hardy LTS with apache2 and mod_fcgid packages installed. I'd like to get MT4 running under fcgid rather than mod-cgi (it seems to run OK with plain-old CGI). I can't seem to get even a simple Perl script to run under fcgid. I created a simple "Hello World" app...
Im creating a new site i a i want a flash animation in the header of my page, im using Movable Type 4.2. The problem is i don't know how can i do that, and which file i need edit, or if i can do all the job in the dfashboard of movable type. Thanks. ...
This could be a bit long, I'm not really sure what the problem is. I'm currently using an implementation of BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. I'm wanting to switch to MovableType to take advantage of their Community and Social blogging apparatus. The major "IF" in the equation is whether or not I'll be able to import my old posts t...
Hi, im building a new side with movable type. And i want to remove the sidebar for a few pages, but not for all the pages. Any idea? Thanks. ...
On the 'Manage Pages' screen in the admin area of Movable Type, is it possible to nest pages, or to achieve any kind of page hierarchy? Essentially I need to mirror the site structure. I would also like to order pages, not by published date, but by a meaningful order - ie the order I need them to display on the website. ...
Hello there, I'm working with MT for the first time and have encountered a little problem with displaying a list of monthly archives. I'd like to display a table where every year containing entries is a row, and all months are shown as cells in each row. Months containing entries are shown with their names wrapped in a link to the corr...
I'm building out a search results page within a blog. I've rewritten the URL so that going to: /blog/tag/foo will return a search results for foo. In the template, I'd like to return a listing of all the posts that are tagged with 'foo', so I've made an MT:Entries block that starts: <mt:Entries tag="<$mt:SearchString$>"> but it ...
Hello, I have working https protocol on my subdomain. I would like to change current url: http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi to https://ssl.mydomain.com/ How can I do it? Could anybody help me step by step? I am beginner in this field. I tried Google and also Movable Type forum, but no answer so far. Maybe this could help y...
Background Our email vendor supports rss feeds for dynamic content, which we use successfully for "daily headline" type emails. This is a great help in automating many different emails that we don't have staffing to create daily. One of our staff as requested that his daily email (which has recent headlines from his Movable Type blog) o...
Commonly movable type will publish HTML files which contains absolute path, but if I want to host the site under different domain(e.g., both HTTP and HTTPS), it is very inconvenient. So is there a way to change all the paths to resource of my site to absolute ones? Thanks ...
Is there latex math support with movable type 5? ...
I really like how Lifehacker.com (and Gawker.com) implements their comment system. I believe, but am not certain, they use Movable Type as the platform for their blog. What I like about their comment system is that it's a simple open text field and once you click "Share" it then asks you to register. Question: Anyone know how to accom...
I keep getting a crash on the mt-wizard.cgi script that returns: "script failed to send data". I'm not sure what the issue is, and whether it is because of movable type of perl/windows. Any insight is appreciated. ...
Hi I'm trying to insert UL on every 20th sub category label. This code below doesn't seem to work. It only exports list of sub categories without the UL in it's right place. Any one know what would be wrong? <MTTopLevelCategories> <ul> <MTSubCategories> <mt:If name="__counter__" op="%" value="20" eq="1"> <mt:If name="__counter__" ne="...
Hello Im trying to sort <MTEntries> by title. I know you can use <MTEntries sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend"> but this modifier some how prioritizes capitalized letters first to the sort. Im not sure if this is a glitch in the system but this modifier should sort by purely the alphabets(caps or no caps) used in the title. Example: ...
Hi I want to specify one <CategoryLabel> in <MTEntryCategories> in archive template. For example my categories are like this (x is selected category in entry): Fruit --Apple --Grape Drinks --Coffee -x-Beer --Juice Vacation --France -x-UK In this case I want to display the label under "Drinks" in a entry (sample code) <MTSubCategor...
Hey folks, I've got a local install of Movable Type, which is used as a development version, and a remote install which is on the web. When I edit a page or template and then publish it in my local version, I am then brought back to the edit page after it has published. However, when I do this on the remote version I am redirected to th...
Hi, I have several keywords (1~3 words) stored in <MTEntryKeywords> field separated by commas. I want to take out the first keyword from MTEntryKeywords. Example 1: In the Keywords field I have entered: gadgets,phone,apple, Want to display: gadgets Example 2: In the Keywords field I have entered: food,coffee,apple, Want to display...
I am able to get mt-check to run, but it says that DBD::MySQL module is not installed. Here is what it says: DBI (version >= 1.21) Your server has DBI installed (version 1.52). DBD::mysql Your server does not have DBD::mysql installed, or DBD::mysql requires another module that is not installed. The DBD::mysql database driver is requi...