Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If you are one of many thats experiencing problems with comment spam, then there really are…… Continue reading Fighting comment spam
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Friendly URLs in Movable Type
Arve has written a very nice tutorial covering how to set up Movable Type to use search engine and user friendly url’s. Not only does he show how to set up Movable Type so you can customise the url’s yourself, but he also shows how to set up a template to do redirects from the…… Continue reading Friendly URLs in Movable Type
Windows client for MovableType and more
Ecto is a pretty cool new tool for MovableType, Blogger, Typepad and Windows users (Uses XML-RPC so it should be possible to use it with any blog system utilizing XML-RPC), at the moment it is in pre 1.0 beta, and this is my first post with it. Will probably report more about features and possibilites.…… Continue reading Windows client for MovableType and more
How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines
Nice article with many good tips from fellow norwegian blogger Anders Jacobsen: Optimizing Movable Type – Keyword links While it will be interesting to see if the keywords will help making the search engines find blog entries, his tip will help you make content in your blog be more accessible to your users via MTs…… Continue reading How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines
SharpMT – Offline windows editor for MT
This looks like a very interesting project. Randy Rants’s SharpMT is a Windows offline editor for MovableType. It is using XML-RPC to post to MovableType, and is quite handy if you aren’t always online, but still want the ability to work on blog postings. The project is in a very active phase right now, with…… Continue reading SharpMT – Offline windows editor for MT
MovableType creators create Blogger competitor
This is news that has had many a blogger buzzing the last few days. Six Apart (Ben Trott and Mena Trott), the creators of MovableType, announced TypePad – a service that are likely to rival Google owned Blogger. The promises of the service are grand, including a built-in photo album creation tool, a built-in Blogroll…… Continue reading MovableType creators create Blogger competitor
MTCodeBeautifier – ActionScript highlight plug-in for MovableType
Here is a cool plug-in for MovableType, it is sure to become very useful considering how many Flashers are using MovableType today. (Not to mention all the Perl and PHP programmers using it): MTCodeBeautifier – MovableType Syntax Highlighting Plug-in It is Sean Voisen of Voisen.org (former EatOrange) that has taken a project called Beautifier, used…… Continue reading MTCodeBeautifier – ActionScript highlight plug-in for MovableType
So whats so cool about Trackback?
I am sorry for not taking the time to explain about Trackback in my previous posting. Fernando has already raised the question – “explain to me a good use of the trackback feature?” TrackBack (manual) enables weblogs to ping each-other, so if I am writing about something that Mike has already posted about – I…… Continue reading So whats so cool about Trackback?
Having fun with MovableType
Having lots of fun with MovableType today, I have updated to the latest version (2.63) and moved my entries into MySQL – Should allow me to have some fun with statistics (expect some charts), and with extracting information easier than I did before. It also means that I am adding Trackback to my blog, and…… Continue reading Having fun with MovableType
MovableType Warning (or what happens when you don’t read the manual)
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to run this by you all, but if you are a MovableType user, and haven’t read the install notes, then shame on you, and please make sure to fix this “security problem”. If you followed the installation manual, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. If you just installed…… Continue reading MovableType Warning (or what happens when you don’t read the manual)