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Download Movable Type?
I have a personal blog using MT 4.38 and want to upgrade to 5.2.9 but can’t find anywhere to download it? what do I do? where do i get the latest 5.2.9 version to upgrade my older 4.38 blog?…
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Adding Typekit script to Movable Type 4 Blog
I just signed up with Typekit. They provide a small script that I need to add the the section of the blog. I have searched for hours through the files and I don’t know where this is. Anyone have any…
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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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Loading objects based upon them have a field with a null value
How can you load only the objects that have a field with a null value. It does not appear to work when you use MT::Foo->load({fieldname=>undef})…
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Image error
This message comes up when trying to add an image to our latest blog post. “Error creating temporary file; please check your TempDir setting in your coniguration file (currently ‘/tmp’) this location should be writable.” All of our images in…
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Convert Line Breaks not working
‘Convert Line Breaks’ option doesn’t create lines breaks in 4.38…
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PHP for contact form
I am trying to create a contact form that will send an email when the information is submitted. I’m in the process of creating a page template for it, but I’m not sure how to encode the php properly. Although…
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MovableType 5.04 with PHP 5.4?
I have a website running on MT 5.04, but PHP on the server has been migrated to 5.4 and the site is no longer working - I get a 503 Service Unavailable error. Is MT 5.04 compatible with PHP 5.4?…
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Cannot find login URL
A client has version 3.3, which has worked fine for years, and now neither she nor I can even figure out how or where she can log in. Can you provide that information?…
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migrating servers for a 4.21 installation
I cannot seem to find the server requirements anywhere, could you give me server requirements and maybe some tips I could use to migrate? The version mentioned at the footer of the website admin is “Movable Type Pro version 4.21-en…
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Entries are publishing but Pages aren’t
Hey, I get a server error when i ‘save’ a page but not when i publish an entry. I’ve checked the file/folder permission but am at a bit of a loss what to check next. Can anyone help? Thanks Matt…
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Adding Fonts to MT Editor
How do I add different fonts to the TinyMCE editor that MT uses? Thanks….
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Can MT administrators of other sites read my password?
I have signed up to Movable Type in order to post a comment on a blog. I am wondering if the owner/administrator of that blog will subsequently be privy to my password and my email address?…
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Need to upgrade
I’m running an old version of MT (V2.64 has been my blog platform since 2011) and know I need to upgrade to a newer version. I’m worried that it will be beyond me to do this since I’m not very…
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showing entries by array of ID number
I wrote a module for finding the most related entries to the entry. I tried to count number of common tags and then sorted t. finally I stored the most related entry IDs in an array. Unfortunately I couldn’t show…
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permissions error when uploading files
I am receiving this error message when uploading. I last used MT October 24, and have successfully used it for years without incident. My host. Insider Hosting, cannot resolve this and I need help. `Error writing upload to ‘/home/gallery/public_html/inventory/KA15detail.jpg’: Opening…
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Plans to bring back blogger license?
Are there plans in the future to bring back the blogger license? I have a blog that has been going strong for over 10 years, but paying $500 is too much for just blogging….
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Display entries containing string in title
Is there a way to filter entries displayed by a checking if the title contains a certain word? For example, display all entries in which the title contains the word “IBM”….
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EntryAuthorUserpicURL does and doesnt work
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 “>…
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External RSS feeds
A client of mine uses movabletype and post articles on their site. They have a sponsors page with companies listed. They want to add a latest news link to each company that will pull up the latest news associated with…
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Preview shows a blank page
Hi, I can’t get preview to show me anything but a blank page on OS X Firefox or Chrome. Is this a known issue? Is it going to be fixed soon?…
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Comments Denied
Running v. 3.34. All of a sudden, commenting works properly as usual on the first three entries but when I write comments on older posts, review, and then click to save them, this comes up: Your comment submission failed for…
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Forms
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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Cannot log in like usually do
The log-in URL I’ve always used now returns the following error message: > Internal Server Error > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. The hosting service for our website did change…
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Incorrect Author Attribution in SERP
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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Author usernames in meta information?
Google SERPs are showing usernames rather than Display Names. So the hit on Google will say “by: admin” rather than “by: Editor” or other. This gives people our usernames and then they can just hack the password instead of trying…
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MT::App::CMS error
I’m trying to upgrade from version 3.3 to 4.38 and eventually 5.x. So far I have upgraded to 4.38 and i hit this error when trying to preview a blog entry. > Invalid request: corrupt character data for character set…
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reader comment is not showing
I approved a reader comment, but it is not showing as a comment on the blog. When I tried to republish the blog, I got the following error message: An error occurred publishing category ‘9784’: Publish error in template ‘Category…
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Sudden JSON error
Hello. Been running MT 4.23 perfectly for years. This morning after a server outage that required a reboot, whenever I create an entry I get the following error:
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Why is a deleted blog still accessible?
I created a blog as a college class project and want to delete it. Under manage blogs it says I have no blogs to manage but the URL still exists and can be searched. How do I get rid of…
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Styles and images stopped working
Hello — I recently noticed that for some reason all our blog posts (example) lost all their formatting and thumbnail images. We use Movable Type to host the blog and link to it from our webpage. Please let me know…
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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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New to posting
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to publish a blog post that I have created in Word onto my blog. I have the content and link ready I just need to publish it now. Thank you for your…
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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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Published entry not on main page
I’ve published an entry to my blog, but it is not showing up on the main page of my blog. I can only find my entry in the archives, not on the main page. How do I get it to…
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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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Pagination plugin
Is there a plugin for pagination in movable type that is compatible with MT5? Thanks…
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TinyMCE
How do you get the latest features of TinyMCE or customize it?…
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Edit Entry oddities
Can’t type in Body box. Can type in other boxes. Also, when click preview, it also clicks the save button. Any idea what’s wrong? –Elizabeth Harlow In a new entry I can only type the Title, but I can’t type…
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How can I restore my application directory?
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/…
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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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Migrating from Pixelpost to Movable Type
I would like to know if there is the chance to migrate a 5 year old Pixelpost blog to Movable Type….
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Allow anonymous commenting with CAPTCHA
Running latest version of MT. I just want people to be able to comment using image CAPTCHA, not by signing in. I have changed all configurations that I know, but it still asks for a sign in to comment….
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Movable Type on MAMP for OSX
I forgot to mention that I recently installed MAMP Pro. Apache, MySQL and PHP is part of MAMP as I understand it. So can I install MovableType and not worry about installing MySQL or PHP?…
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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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Thumbnail file sizes can end up larger than original image
Sometimes when an image is resized by Movable Type, the resulting image’s file size is larger than the original! What’s going on here?…
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How can I prettify tag and keyword search URLs?
