Technorati Tags in Movable Type
Movable Type Plugins
Technorati tags are only a day or so old and already there is a nice new Technorati plugin that will automatically generate keywords for a post and then create Technorati links for those tags.
January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Movable Type Plugins and Hacks
Movable Type Plugins
Movalog: Approve/Moderate All is a MT hack to add the ability to unapprove a comment and bulk approve.
From KahunaBurger, a MT plugin that uses Spam Assassin to control comment spam or as an alternative, another plugin that denies comments from open proxies, also for MT.
January 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Suggest Search for Movable Type
Movable Type Plugins
Two ways: Movalog: Suggest Search or Creating a Google Suggest-style Search
January 09, 2005 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
MT Parent Category Rebuild Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
Anyone who has been left scratching their heads after trying to set up Parent and Sub Categories in MT, will understand why David Raynes: ParentCategoryRebuild 1.0 is a handy plugin!
December 21, 2004 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
MT-Approval Plugin for MT
Movable Type Plugins
Don't Back Down: MT-Approval 0.1.1 - new anti-spam plugin for Movable Type.
December 17, 2004 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
MTDisguiseTrackbackURL Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
MT Hacks MTDisguiseTrackbackURL Plugin - From the author "MTDisguiseTrackbackURL is a mini-plugin that replaces the MT function for the <MTEntryTrackbackURL> tag that is displayed in the Trackback Listing template. MTDisguiseTrackbackURL outputs the URL using a few javascript commands, breaking up the full URL in the underlying HTML code."
December 08, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Markdown
Movable Type Plugins
Daring Fireball Projects: Markdown. From the author - "Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)." Available as a Movable Type plugin or a standalone Perl script.
Also from Daring Fireball, Smarty Pants v 1.5 has been released.
March 09, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Some new Movable Type Plugins
Movable Type Plugins
It's obvious that I use and like Movable Type but it doesn't stop me from occasionally taking a look at what other blogging tools are out there though. I recently setup WordPress and took it for a test drive. I have to say, I was very impressed. What was particularly nice was the functionality that was there right out of the box - simple, but nice touches like "Edit This" links for admins there by default. I'm hopeful that the long awaited Movable Type 3 will follow this lead.
In the meantime, those of us who have been adding this functionality in a variety of ways now have a plugin option -MT Plugin Directory: AdminLinks.
Also new and nice in the MT Plugins directory this morning is Phil Ringnalda's Prev Next in Category plugin. Unlike a previous plugin of a similar name, this one allows you to start browsing through a particular category outside of the category archives.
Finally, the Recent Images plugin allows you to pull up a list of the last "n" images posted to your weblog. Perfect for photologs.
February 08, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CatEntries Movable Type Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
I really like the CatEntries Plugin. I use it to filter my quicklinks to display certain links in certain places on my weblogs, depending on the assigned categories.
CatEntries 2.8 was released today and now offers some functionality that might be of interest beyond sorting entries by category. From the author "CatEntries 2.8 allows offset with days (that is, offset="3" days="4" means “four days of entries starting three days ago”), and using lastn with days will work as normal for days, but only return at most lastn entries . . . this allows you to (MTCatEntries days="20" offset="7" lastn="3"). At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if you used CatEntries without specifying any categories, just to get better control of the displayed range."
January 27, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Optional Redirect Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
If you're like me and you've been on the fence about upgrading MT to 2.661, this new plugin might make the difference. David Raynes: Optional-Redirect v0.1 allows you to opt in or out of the comment author link redirect feature.
January 22, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A trio of new MT Plugins
Movable Type Plugins
A few nice additions to the MT Plugin Directory today . . .Subscribe To Comments - more a cgi script than a plug-in technically, but a very nice addition. Add subscribe to comments to your blogs easily and with no hacking necessary. Nice work, Oscar!
Preview Plugin - "Preview any draft entry in true WYSIWYG mode based on your current individual archive template. The plugin adds a new button to the normal Edit Entry form to open the preview window. Works will any MT text filters."
Finally, Breakout allows you to "break out" of line breaks for any particular section of your template. Handy!
January 06, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Plugin for Closing Comments on Older Entries in Movable Type
Movable Type Plugins
David Raynes: Closing comments on old entries. I'm going to take this one for a spin. When it comes to comment spam, I've never had any on recent entries. This looks like a nice solution.
December 27, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MT-Notifier
Movable Type Plugins
MT-Notifier is a plugin which allows a notification to be sent out to subscribed users when a new comment is posted to an entry to which they have subscribed. (Subscribe to comments). Plays nicely with MT-Blacklist, as well.
November 25, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (1)
MT-Blacklist Update
Movable Type Plugins
MT-Blacklist Version 1.5 released :: The Daily Journey :: JayAllen.org - featuring a "Search & De-spam" feature which allows the search all blogs in your MT install and delete all spam at one time. Other updates and fixes as well, including a major speed up, which was a problem for some users. It just keeps getting better and better!
October 28, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Fix for MT-Blacklist Slowdown
Movable Type Plugins
If you're experience a rebuild/comment posting slowdown since installing MT-Blacklist, here's a nice fix - Wizbang: MT-Blacklist Slowdown Fix.
And again on the subject of MT-Blacklist, apparently Kalsey's comment notification hack brakes with the installation of MT-Blacklist. Here's a workaround to a fix to block emailing of your own comments with MT-Blacklist installed.
October 19, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (2)
MT-Publish On Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
mt-publish-on: Publishing MT Entries At A Later Date. - brings the nice TypePad feature to Movable Type.
October 16, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
MT-Blacklist
Movable Type Plugins
It's here! - MT-Blacklist: Stop Spam Now :: The Daily Journey :: JayAllen.org. Stop comment spammers with this new plugin for Movable Type. With many thanks, Jay!
October 13, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Amputator MT Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
Via Donna at Delirious Cool, the Amputator Plugin for Movable Type. Will automatically encode any ampersand in areas that you specify (titles, entries, comment) to keep your site validation in good working order! Handy.
September 28, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Movable Type Plugin Manager
Movable Type Plugins
MT Plugin Directory: Plugins Manager was beta released today! This is a great tool for anyone like me who has lost track of all the plugins I've installed ;)
July 05, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Check Links Plugin.
Movable Type Plugins
At Staggernation.com, via Donna, the Check Links Plugin for Movable Type. This plugin will check all your entries (or a subset of entries) for bad links and print a report for you to follow up on. Very useful plugin!
June 03, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Quick Code Text Filter Plugin for Movable Type
Movable Type Plugins
Quick Code Text Filter Plugin for Movable Type - worth the install just for the [code] tag but comes with even more! Nice.
May 17, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (3)
Technorati Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
From Kalsey Group, the Technorati Plugin for Movable Type.
May 13, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (2)
Some New MT Plugins
Movable Type Plugins
Some interesting new plugins just listed at the MT Plugin Directory! Countdown Plugin allows you to place a countdown counter in your blog and DaysOffset is a nice set of new tags to display a list of recent entries beyond what is showing on the index page.
May 10, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Couple of New MT Goodies
Movable Type Plugins
Just catching up on reading the MT Forum and a couple of goodies caught my eye.
First, from Gavin, the FlipFlop Plugin, which allows you to alternate styles or colors or anything you can think up! Haven't tried it yet, but it looks very cool!
Not a plugin, but an add-on is SharpMT,, which is an off-line blog entry writer. This is still in Beta but I've tried it and it works great!
Update: one more! Sean Willson's Rebuild Mod gives a ton of control of MT's rebuild process.
April 27, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Blog Shares Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
David Raynes has whipped up a Blog Shares Plugin, which will display some data about your blog's pricing on Blog Shares
April 01, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (1)
Visitor Location Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
From the Movable Type forums today, Gavin announces his latest plugin, the Visitor Location Plugin. From the announcement, this plugin will display "a list of flags and locations from where the last 10 (or so) visitors came from (when the template was updated)."
March 22, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Updated MT Weather Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
Gavin has released an update for his Movable Type weather plugin. It looks like it incorporates a change that Interceptor Vector made to the city identifier. Also added, an error message, which should eliminate the rebuild hang when IV's feed is down. [At the time of posting this, IV's city list with the new id numbers seems to be down.]
March 12, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
New Voting plugin for Movable Type
Movable Type Plugins
Answering the call from several mt users for a "vote for this entry" feature, rayers has answered the call and produced an Voting Plugin for MT. (link to mt forum thread).
March 04, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MT Plugin to post to MT Blog from Word
Movable Type Plugins
I followed a link from the MT Forum this afternoon and found this MT plugin for MS Word which allows you to post to your MT blog from Word 2000 or 2002.
March 03, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MT Plugin Directory
Movable Type Plugins
The new MT Plugins Directory is live! Go check it out. Great work and a great resource.
February 13, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Simple Comments Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
Adam Kalsey has just released a new plugin. The Simple Comments Plugin will merge trackbacks and comments into a single list, rather than the default which displays them separately. Download the Simple Comments Plugin from Adam's site. [Phil Rignalda also talks about this plug-in here.]
February 03, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MTGrid Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
Stepan has come up with a great new plugin for Movable Type. Called MTGrid, it enables you to easily constuct tabular pages out of entry or category listings. Put more simply, it allows you to easily create columns or rows for archive listings, for example, or photos for a photolog. According to the thread on the MT Forum thread about MTGrid, the code can use either conventional tables or a CSS divs and can easily do alternating row colours - all without PHP!
January 30, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MTEntry Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
A new plugin for MovableType from David Raynes is the MTEntry Plugin. This plugin creates a tag for one specified entry that can be used as a "sticky post" that would stay at the top of your entries, regardless of the date/time it was authored. People have been asking for this capability for awhile, so I'm sure it will be a popular one!
January 20, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Paginate Plugin
Movable Type Plugins
MT Extensions: MTPaginate 1.0 is an interesting new MT plugin! It will allow the user to break up long entries into separate pages.
I can't wait to find a use for it! Note: This plugin requires PHP and pages that end in .php.
January 12, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Another Great Plug-in
Movable Type Plugins
Rayner's is pumping out movable type plug-ins like crazy! His latest MTOtherBLog, which allows you to include Templated content from other blogs in your own, as long as they are all on the same installation of MT [movabletype.org : Support Forum Thread]
This one will come in very handy!
December 05, 2002 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
New MT Plug-in: Random Entry
Movable Type Plugins
David Raynes has made a great new plug-in for movabletype that will generate a random entry from you blog. Perfect for a sidebar link for fun. Available for download from his site. [movabletype.org : Support Forum Thread]
December 04, 2002 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Plugin: MT BlogTimes
Movable Type Plugins
Nilesh has provided a very interesting new MT plugin. Called BlogTimes, it generates a bar chart that shows the time of day that a blogger typically blogs. I had to give this a go and you'll see my results at the very bottom of this page (scroll waaay down!). As you can see, I'm not a night owl ;) Kind of a fun little addition to a blog. The plugin and information can be found here. If anyone needs any help to install this, just let me know and I'll write out a step-by-step thing.
November 29, 2002 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Live Weather Feed for MT
Movable Type Plugins
Gavin has built a great plugin for bringing live weather feed into MT from InterceptorVector weather.
It's very simple to install, although I did have to add the XML::Simple module because my server didn't have it installed. That was easy enough as well though. It can be downloaded here.
The nice thing for me is that this feed provides listings for Canadian cities as well. Not all weather feeds do. Now if it would only give me my weather in degrees Celsius ;)
Here is the thread from the mt forum on this subject, as well as having a download link for the plugin. It's still being developed so check the thread for updates or problems encountered etc. A sample output is on the sidebar here as well, showing the available variables. You can customize it to include as much or as little as you want.
Very nice plugin, Gavin!
Added November 26/02: Gavin has a new version of his plug-in available ... now with Celsius output tags! Thanks again, Gavin.
November 23, 2002 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
