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Some hosting providers and large companies wish to host multiple instances of Movable Type from a single source base. Each of these instances will have its own dedicated database. This allows for: easier maintenance across all instances of Movable Type...
Read moreGetting the hang of MT4's templates can be tricky if you're not familiar with how the new system of includes and variables work. But the basic idea is that you should be able to make a straightforward HTML page, and...
Read moreMovable Type allows for users to browse, select and download themes hosted on a remote website. These repositories, once setup (see below) can be registered within the application and listed alongside other style repositories or "categories" as seen in the...
Read moreTerminology "Mismatch" Movable Type, while originally designed as a blogging platform, is capable of publishing sites of all sorts, including forums. Applications like forums however can often use different terminology or nomenclature when referring to the same thing. This can...
Read moreWarning: This tag is not recommended as the implementation requires inline javascript which dramatically slows down the rendering of the html page in a browser. This tag is not currently used in any of the default template sets shipped...
Read moreMovable Type will automatically link to documentation for a specific template tag, whenever that tag is used by a user within the administrative interface. In order for Movable Type to compose a link properly, it must be given the URL...
Read moreAdvisories Due to a memory leak in Movable Type template parser, large scale web sites are advised not to use Publish Queue in daemon mode or FastCGI for the time being. This memory leak has been fixed in Movable Type...
Read moreThis template tags returns a complete HTML <img> tag representing the current author's userpic. For example: <img src="http://www.yourblog.com/path/to/userpic.jpg" width="100" height="100" />...
Read moreThis template tag returns a complete HTML img tag for the current commenter's userpic. For example: <img src="http://yourblog.com/userpics/1.jpg" width="100" height="100" /> Example: <h2>Recent Commenters</h2> <mt:Entries recently_commented_on="10"> <div class="userpic" style="float: left; padding: 5px;"><$mt:CommenterUserpic$></div> </mt:Entries>...
Read moreUsers wishing to obtain the absolutely most recent code of MTOS can check code out directly from the source code repository. To do so requires that you have a git client installed on your machine. You can check out the latest from the github repository: % git clone http://github.com/movabletype/movabletype.git Once you have cloned the source code, you will need to run the following command to process the build and ready it for the web: % cd movabletype % make me Note: it is our goal to remove the need for this last step, but for the time being it is required in order to set the default language of the checked out files. GitHub is the most popular Git hosting, and it also provides social networking functions such as feeds, followers and the network graph to display how the team works on the repository. We believe that this transition will help our community a lot. The development process will be more transparent, easier to try the bleeding edge version of the code, and of course, you can fork your own projects ! movabletype/movabletype - GitHub...
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