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Activity Log maintenance issues

By Public Question and posted in Featured on October 28, 2009.

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...

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How can I restore my application directory?

By Public Question and posted on September 27, 2013.

Hi, I had a few MT4 blogs in my website. There was a crash in the server that host the website and some folders were lost. The blogs are still on one-line. Here are the links: http://culturaebarbarie.org/blog/ http://culturaebarbarie.org/mundoabrigo/ However, the...

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Inconsistent URL custom fields

By Public Question and posted in Featured on October 14, 2013.

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...

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Incorrect Author Attribution in SERP

By Public Question and posted on November 1, 2013.

When I search Google for an article on my MT site (http://tinyurl.com/kwqaunn) the first 4 articles all state the wrong author. Where is Google getting this data? I can’t find it anywhere on our page in the front end or...

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Forms

By Public Question and posted on November 6, 2013.

I am the new website administrator for my office and new to using your interface. In the past my office has created forms for an annual awards nomination process, but I have been unable to locate the forms on the...

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EntryAuthorUserpicURL does and doesnt work

By Public Question and posted on November 15, 2013.

Recently update to MT 5.2.7. Done by a third party who was a bit crap to be fair and isnt interested in finishing the job off. Couple of things that still need to be ironed out… With this snippet <mt:Entries...

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Deleting my blog entries/content

By Public Question and posted on 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!...

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Where to find my SALT value for my release password

By Public Question and posted on 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...

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Breadcrumbs and categories

By anthonyf and posted on March 1, 2014.

I have entries that have more than one category - I can’t figure out the coding of my breadcrumbs to show only the category tree that you are actually in, and not duplicate categories - for example I have an...

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