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Upgrade path from MT2
I took a long hiatus from blogging and now have the time to begin doing it more. As a result of the hiatus, my site is still running Moveable Type 2.63. The link on your site that gives information about…
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Restoring some deleted comments from backed-up MySQL database?
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…
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How to additional information from LDAP to a person’s profile
How do I add additional LDAP information to users profiles? I would like to add a person title using the title that is already available in our LDAP db….
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Allow HTML in comment code blocks
I am using Markdown with Smartypants to process comments similar to the example in the documentation for the
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MySQL socket error
What is this error? Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2)…
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File timestamp updating
I republished an entire blog, and when I looked at the timestamps on the files, I did not see any recent dates. Does this mean Movable Type could not publish the templates? Or does it not update file timestamps every…
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Can I use the same template on multiple blogs?
Thanks!…
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Inconsistent URL custom fields
I have a “Single-Line Text” custom field called “Asker URL” with the template tag set to
AskExpertURL. The values stored so far are a mixture of full URLs like: http://movabletype.org And shorthand URLs like: movabletype.org I am following the suggested… -
E-mail alerts on new comments
How do I turn on an email alert for each time we receive a comment? So then we do not have to log in everyday to see if there are new comments. Instead we would just receive an email saying…
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How do I change the database?
Hi, I’m trying to change the database to another one on my server. How do I do that in Movable Type? Thanks, Emma…
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Entry Display Order within a Category
How do I change the order of entries that are loaded in a category?…
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ImageMagick Configuration Problem
I’ve never had too many issues uploading images, but yesterday, before I even saw the image file screen, I saw this error: “The required ImageMagick libraries are not installed or not installed properly.” Since then, I’ve not been able to…
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Does commenting require third party cookies?
Hi, Can you tell me how the comments are handled in MovableType? 1. Does it require the user to activate 3rd party cookies? 2. If 3rd party cookies are involved can there be a script with a button that can…
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How can I prettify tag and keyword search URLs?
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Switching to different language versions of a site
I have a website in the Thai language and I have been requested to mirror that site in English. The site would be a 1 to 1 copy of the original. Every Page and Entry would have a corresponding Page…
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How can I generate appropriate meta tags in my posts?
I want to use Movable Type to show keywords, description, etc. What do you recommend?…
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Using PHP to check authentication
Hello, I’m trying to mix PHP code with MT tags in order to check if a user is authenticated. The purpose is to show and hide published pages according to who is logged in. We are using Movable Type 4.34…
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Activity Log maintenance issues
Running MT 4.23-en, on a fairly active blog (at least daily entries and comment activity). The activity log has not been maintained (i.e. cleared) in about three years, and has grown quite large (greater than 33 megabytes, total space, over…
