By following the clues at movalog I’ve managed to get a static page working with MT which means that I can write individual pages that include MT layout and data. This allows me to create pages such as About Me, Contact etc.
Note that I’m still using the static pages I’ve had for these examples but eventually I’ll get round to updating them.
Twice today I’ve tried to comment on a blog hosted on typepad.com and when I post the comment I get an error message back saying
An error occurred…
Invalid URL ‘https://absoblogginlutely.net’
Please correct the error in the form below, then press Post to post your comment.”
The annoying thing is that the url is correct and works everywhere else. You also have to log in to typepads site to post a problem report (which is daft as I’m not the actual user of typepad)
Update Looks like I’m not about the only one with 74 other hits on google
Update Got an email back from typepad to say that they have now fixed it (and I can now comment again – woohoo)
Now that we’ve actually moved to the States, new posts on the move and our new life will be under the “Settling in” category as opposed to “Moving to the States” category. This will probably only affect those of you who are looking at the category archives. Regular rss readers and website readers will not be affected.
Movalog: Firefox Search Plugins allow you to search for MT content from the quicksearch button within firefox. Very handy!
I found mt-rebuild which allows you to schedule a rebuild of an entry/page/index which is just what I needed to force a rebuild of my main index page on absocachinlutely to include my latest finds in the side bar of the page. I had to rename my Main Index to MainIndex and then include the blog id, set the mode to index and provide the template name in a cronjob as follows:-
/full-pathname-to/mt-rebuild.pl -blog_id=9 -template=MainIndex -mode=index
I stumbled across the WordPress CSS guide a while ago which is really handy for understanding how WordPress reads the CSS and applies it to the blog but I really wanted a MT version. Although I’ve not quite come across the same thing, the following posts help a great deal.
- Boxpunch demo
- Learning MT – css
- mediatinker’s Illustrated MT Templates
- Printer friendly pages (which I already do)
There’s a Patch for all MT versions that stops spammers sending out mail through the server. Worth fixing asap.
i’m not lost and I’ve upgraded my install to include the nofollow tag after downloading and reading the instructions from movabletype’s announcement. What they don’t make clear is that if you are running v2 of MT then you only need the file in the plugin directory, you don’t need to worry about the php file. (The document refers to one file being needed and then gives you two to install!)
Google announced yesterday that they will not consider links in a webpage if surrounded by a nofollow tag. The upshot of this is that comments can be surrounded by the nofollow tag and google will not consider these links in pageranking. When I first read this it sounded a great solution to the commentspam problem. If everyone follows this solution, then there will be little point in doing the spam and hopefully it will stop – but therein lies the problem – everyone needs to follow it. Scoble reports that already MSN and yahoo have announced they will also use this tag. Also interesting that they’ve done this in a couple of days/hours as opposed to having to use a committee to do it.
It will be something that I’ll be looking at putting in my MT implementation soon (details from their news page on how to do this) – when I get some time!
I’m trying to work out how to include a RSS feed into an index page of one of my blogs and came across Learning Movable Type: Simple RSS Customizations. Although it has not yet provided me with an answer, it has provided me with some more reading to do on other rss matters.
rssparsers might be handy for doing work outside of MT but the best source I found so far was mt-rssfeed plugin but I have not got that working yet. But it’s late and I need to go to bed so I will try again another night.