January 2014

Changing default CAPTCHA color

Asked by Allen Macbean and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
January 28, 2014

I’m using the MT CAPTCHA to verify real comments on our blog, but the CAPTCHA is unreadable. I have a black background on the blog, the the CAPTCHA is black type on a dark grey/black pattern. How does one change…

MTOS install files?

Asked by Scott and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
January 28, 2014

We are currently using MTOS for our online journal. We would like to upgrade to MTOS 5.2.9. Can you please tell me where to download the installation files, and where to get the upgrade instructions?…

Front end is not updating after publish

Asked by George Sakkal
January 27, 2014

I am trying to update our UThink blog. In my entries section, I can see all my 2014 posts I am trying to publish. However, even after it says they are published, only 2013 posts show on the blog. How…

Need to continually reset password to log in

Asked by matt
January 24, 2014

I cannot log in to Moveable Type. When I go to the log in page, it keeps coming up with “invalid username or password.” But when I go to recover password and reset it to the same as it was,…

How Movable Type Blogs Use Entry Categories

Asked by Ellen and answered by Dan Wolfgang
January 23, 2014

Hi there. Our company is confused as to how a blog entry is categorized. When I choose multiple categories that my blog applies to, only one or sometimes none of them are included in the URL. I also don’t know…

Where to find my SALT value for my release password

Asked by three18ti
January 23, 2014

Hello, With the breach of blogs.perl.org I would like to verify that my password has not been compromised. Unfortunately, I do not remember the password I used when I signed up to blogs.perl.org so I was going to attempt to…

Restore hangs

Asked by Neil
January 22, 2014

I’m migrating to a new host. Same version has previous host. The restore function takes the backup file, but hangs at the ‘restoring’ phase….

Downloading Images from blog

Asked by Nathan Myles
January 21, 2014

Hello, I’m looking to download the images associated with my blog. How can I do this?…

Entry Scheduling Not working

Asked by Adrian Black and answered by Heideldesign.
January 20, 2014

I have some blog entries that are scheduled to start in the future. This doesn’t seem to work. I am running Movable Type Pro version 5.2.7 with: Community Pack 1.95, Professional Pack 1.75…

Embedding video

Asked by Andrew and answered by Heideldesign.
January 20, 2014

How can i put a video into my blog. Either uploading a .mov file directly or linking to a youtube version if need be….

Restoring some deleted comments from backed-up MySQL database?

Asked by Jed Hartman and answered by Jed Hartman
January 12, 2014 in Featured

Hi, all. A user of my MT instance accidentally deleted 200 legitimate comments from their blog a couple months ago; I’m now trying to restore those. I have a backup of the MySQL database (using mysqldump) from just before the…

Gateway Timeout Errors

Asked by Wayne Garcia
January 10, 2014

The last few times I’ve made updates things get clogged up and there is always Gateway timeout errors. What’s up? I use the least Mac OS X….

Need help retrieving my login URL

Asked by Filip
January 10, 2014

It’s been so long since I logged onto my MT page for my site, that I lost the bookmarks, and the URL to reach the page. I tried: www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi but I got a 403 forbidden access. I haven’t upgraded/updated MT…

How to update copyright date in blog footer

Asked by Kristen and answered by Heideldesign.
January 9, 2014

i want to update the c)2009 on my blog to 2014. can you take a look at my site and let me know if that is possible? my blog is live here: www.faux-toes.com/blog many bags of thanks, Kristen…

Cannot find login URL

Asked by pat madea and answered by Heideldesign.
January 5, 2014

A friend purchased a url for me a few years ago and it is loaded with moveable type. It’s been awhile since I’ve visited the place, like years, and I want to start using it, but I cannot find how…

Scheduling Posts & Trackbacks Error

Asked by Jodi
January 3, 2014

1. I always get this message when I post: “One or more errors occurred when sending update pings or TrackBacks. Check the Activity Log for the error.” What does this mean? 2. The schedule function has never worked. (i.e. I…

Deleting my blog entries/content

Asked by Jen
January 3, 2014

Hello there, although I want to keep fireballsandtsunami.com, I would like to delete all Movable Type blog posts, comments, photos, videos and other content associated with my blog (July 2001 – August 2005): http://fireballsandtsunami.com/index.php Please advise. Thanks!…

error message regarding database

Asked by Richard Marcus
January 2, 2014

Hi, The web server who hosts my blog recently updated the MSQYL Databases they use to the 5.5 version and ever since I’ve been receiving the following error message Undefined subroutine &DBD::mysql::db::_login called when I try and open www.richardrbmarcus.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi page….