Movable Type 4.0 Beta Change Log
By Byrne Reese and posted in 4.0 on June 12, 2007.
This page contains a detailed change log that was maintained during the Movable Type 4.0 Beta period. Release Candidate 4 Release Candidate 3 Release Candidate 2 Release Candidate 1 Beta 7 Beta 6 Beta 5 Beta 4 Beta 3 Beta 2 Release Candidate 4 - Released August 7, 2007 56344: mt-search always fails after upgrade from MT 3.2 or earlier FIXED: We found a condition in which by upgrading a blog from before 3.2, a time in which a search results template did not exist in the edit templates area, by installing this new system template search would no longer function because it was reliant upon Header/Footer/Sidebar modules to be present, which are NOT installed automatically. The fix was simple: the search results system template is not installed for you and MT will continue to rely on your Search Template found on the file system for generating your search results. 56189: Can't write an entry on IIS5/6 with perlis.dll FIXED: A user reported problems under IIS in which MT would work under perl.exe, but not under the ISAPI module perlis.dll. This ended up being related to an obscure localization issue that has been fixed. 56158: Restore screen lost the banner...
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MT4 on EC2
By Byrne Reese and posted on June 16, 2007.
In yet another very exciting development coming from the re-invigorated Movable Type community, Tim Appnel of Appnel Solutions and Blogcast, has put together a Movable Type 4.0 Image on Amazon's EC2 Service (Elastic Compute Cloud).For those of you who are unfamiliar with EC2, it is a Web service offered by Amazon that allows users to create virtual machines on the Internet quickly and easily. Need a Fedora Server? Click, done. Need a Ubuntu machine? Click, done. And now: need a machine running Movable Type 4? Click, done.It really is that simple. It's kinda scary. Amazon is simply doing some amazing stuff in the arena of Web services, from EC2 to S3. And they are real. Smug Mug, for example, detailed exactly how they were migrating all of photos to use Amazon's S3 storage solution and it saved themselves millions of dollars in the process. I know Tim has used EC2 to setup obscure testing environments for software he was developing, and I use their web services to maintain a back up of all my personal photos and to power Media Manager. I have read a lot of blog posts from around the Interweb from people speculating on who the "next...
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TrackBack Manual
By Byrne Reese and posted in Documentation on June 25, 2007.
Table of Contents Setting up TrackBack Using TrackBack TrackBack Ping Format Movable Type's TrackBack system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between weblogs. Imagine that you write about a movie you just saw in an entry on your Movable Type-powered weblog. Another MT weblogger reads your entry, and wants to write an entry referencing your original post. He could just comment on your weblog, but he'd like to keep the post in his own database and host it on his site. Using TrackBack, the other weblogger can automatically send a ping to your weblog, indicating that he has written an entry referencing your original post. This accomplishes two things: On your site, you can automatically list all sites that have referenced a particular post, allowing visitors to your site to read the response on the other user's weblog. It provides a firm, explicit link between his entry and yours, as opposed to an implicit link (like a referrer log) that depends upon outside action (someone clicking on the link to your entry). You can use TrackBack for more than just communication on particular entries, however. You can also associate TrackBack pings URLs with categories in your weblog. Whenever you post...
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Creating a New Blog
By dave and posted in Managing Blogs on July 13, 2007.
Movable Type 5 You must have "Create Blog" system permissions to create a blog. In addition, you must have "Website Administrator" permissions for the website where you intend to create a blog. Select [Website] from the navigation Select [Blogs] >...
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General Settings
By dave and posted in Blog Settings on July 16, 2007.
The General Settings screen allows you to configure basic information about your blog ( or website in Movable Type 5). Blog (Website) Settings Name: This required field defines the name of your blog (website) and the output of the mt:BlogName...
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Publishing Settings
By dave and posted in Blog Settings on July 17, 2007.
The Publishing Settings screen enables you to set default behavior for where and how Movable Type publishes your blog. Publishing Paths The Publishing Paths section enables you to configure where Movable Type publishes your blog, including both the URL where...
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Creating Template Tags
By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins on July 19, 2007.
One of the most common features of a plugin is the definition of additional template tags that can be used within published blog templates that provide functionality beyond the core template tag set. Types of Template Tags There are three...
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Quick Start Instructions
By and posted in Installation on July 19, 2007.
If you are using a Linux or Unix Web server with all required components installed, follow these steps to install Movable Type: Use a Web browser to connect to the Movable Type Download page and follow instructions there to download...
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Working With Your Blog
By and posted in Installation on July 19, 2007.
When the installation wizard completes, it connects you to the Movable Type system with the login you created, creates a blog with the name you specified, and adds a standard first blog entry. Viewing Your Blog To see your new...
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Linux/Unix Detailed Instructions
By and posted in Installation on July 19, 2007.
The Quick Start instructions provide the basic steps for installing on a Web server where the required components have already been installed. The instructions in this section describe how to install required components, how to customize the installation, and how...
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