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MT 5.02 and Ubuntu 14.04

Asked by Oppy Oppy and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz, on ap lioa and onapthanh
June 2, 2014

I have MT 5.02 successfully installed on…

mt-comments.cgi vulnerability?

Asked by doggone and answered by Heideldesign. and Charlie Gorichanaz
April 19, 2014

My site host provider contacted me regar…

Upgrade to 6.0.3 issues

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April 17, 2014

Hi, I am trying to upgrade from 5.2.2 to…

Logging in times out

Asked by scott and answered by Mike123
April 16, 2014

I can see my blogs but when I try to log…

Password Recovery

Asked by Ed and answered by Maarten Schenk and on ap lioa
April 6, 2014

I am running MT 3.35 and will upgrade, b…

Double space creates Â

Asked by shaun and answered by Dave Aiello and Maarten Schenk
April 1, 2014

Many times when I use a double space, Mo…

Lost my system admin password

Asked by Sandra and answered by Maarten Schenk and on ap lioa
March 29, 2014

I have lost my system admin password and…

database location

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March 20, 2014

I had a movable type installation on an …

category selections not persisting

Asked by eggre and answered by anthonyf, anthonyf, eggre and Dave Aiello
March 1, 2014

Ever since my paid upgrade to 5.2, any c…

uploading multiple pictures

Asked by cgates32 and answered by Dan Wolfgang and Priyank Pandey
February 21, 2014

Hello, How do i upload multiple pictures…

Upgrade path from MT2

Asked by Kevin Higgins and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
February 7, 2014 in Featured

I took a long hiatus from blogging and n…

Changing default CAPTCHA color

Asked by Allen Macbean and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
January 28, 2014

I’m using the MT CAPTCHA to verify real …

MTOS install files?

Asked by Scott and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
January 28, 2014

We are currently using MTOS for our onli…

How Movable Type Blogs Use Entry Categories

Asked by Ellen and answered by Dan Wolfgang
January 23, 2014

Hi there. Our company is confused as to …

Entry Scheduling Not working

Asked by Adrian Black and answered by Heideldesign.
January 20, 2014

I have some blog entries that are schedu…

Embedding video

Asked by Andrew and answered by Heideldesign.
January 20, 2014

How can i put a video into my blog. Eith…

Restoring some deleted comments from backed-up MySQL database?

Asked by Jed Hartman and answered by Jed Hartman
January 12, 2014 in Featured

Hi, all. A user of my MT instance accide…

How to update copyright date in blog footer

Asked by Kristen and answered by Heideldesign.
January 9, 2014

i want to update the c)2009 on my blog t…

Cannot find login URL

Asked by pat madea and answered by Heideldesign.
January 5, 2014

A friend purchased a url for me a few ye…

Download Movable Type?

Asked by Jay Brewer and answered by Heideldesign.
December 30, 2013

I have a personal blog using MT 4.38 and…

Adding Typekit script to Movable Type 4 Blog

Asked by Patrick McKenna and answered by Heideldesign.
December 18, 2013

I just signed up with Typekit. They pro…

reader comment is not showing

Asked by erica brady and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 28, 2013

I approved a reader comment, but it is n…

Why is a deleted blog still accessible?

Asked by Emily and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 23, 2013

I created a blog as a college class proj…

Styles and images stopped working

Asked by Seong-Ah Cho and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 23, 2013

Hello — I recently noticed that for some…

Allow HTML in comment code blocks

Asked by Charlie Gorichanaz and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 16, 2013 in Featured

I am using Markdown with Smartypants to …

MySQL socket error

Asked by nathan and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 16, 2013 in Featured

What is this error? Can’t connect to…

New to posting

Asked by Mariel Martin and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 16, 2013

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to pub…

File timestamp updating

Asked by Charlie Gorichanaz and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 16, 2013 in Featured

I republished an entire blog, and when I…

Can I use the same template on multiple blogs?

Asked by John Smith and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 16, 2013 in Featured

Thanks!…

Inconsistent URL custom fields

Asked by Charlie Gorichanaz and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz and Dan Wolfgang
October 14, 2013 in Featured

I have a “Single-Line Text” custom field…

E-mail alerts on new comments

Asked by Yuji Takayama and answered by Yuji Takayama
October 14, 2013 in Featured

How do I turn on an email alert for each…

How do I change the database?

Asked by Emma and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
October 9, 2013 in Featured

Hi, I’m trying to change the database to…

TinyMCE

Asked by Yuji Takayama and answered by Yuji Takayama
September 30, 2013

How do you get the latest features of Ti…

Edit Entry oddities

Asked by Elizabeth Harlow and Carol Glasser and answered by jrappaport
September 29, 2013

Can’t type in Body box. Can type in othe…

Entry Display Order within a Category

Asked by Pam and answered by Dave Aiello and Rick
September 26, 2013 in Featured

How do I change the order of entries tha…

ImageMagick Configuration Problem

Asked by Julie Schicktanz and answered by Rick
September 25, 2013 in Featured

I’ve never had too many issues uploading…

Does commenting require third party cookies?

Asked by Bill Kay and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
September 11, 2013 in Featured

Hi, Can you tell me how the comments are…

Thumbnail file sizes can end up larger than original image

Asked by John Smith and answered by Dan Wolfgang
August 13, 2013

Sometimes when an image is resized by Mo…

How can I prettify tag and keyword search URLs?

Asked by Caio and answered by Charlie Gorichanaz
May 30, 2013 in Featured

Switching to different language versions of a site

Asked by Bill and answered by François Nonnenmacher, Dan Wolfgang and Shmuel Fomberg
August 7, 2012 in Featured

I have a website in the Thai language an…

How can I generate appropriate meta tags in my posts?

Asked by Rick and answered by Rick and Charlie Gorichanaz
March 17, 2012 in Featured

I want to use Movable Type to show keywo…

Using PHP to check authentication

Asked by Henry Umanksy and answered by François Nonnenmacher and Charlie Gorichanaz
March 4, 2010 in Featured

Hello, I’m trying to mix PHP code with M…

Activity Log maintenance issues

Asked by Samuel Schwartz and answered by Mike T
October 28, 2009 in Featured

Running MT 4.23-en, on a fairly active b…