Movable Type

Tips, tricks, and useful info on how to use the Movable Type publishing system to manage your blog.

Validating comments (and fixing comment preview)

Only valid HTML 4.01 Strict is allowed in comments posted on 456 Berea Street, thanks to Jacques Distler’s MTValidate plugin.

• June 18, 2007
• Comments closed. 17 comments posted.

Software update day: Netscape, Camino, NetNewsWire, Movable Type

Several major updates to Web related software that I use either on a daily basis or for testing purposes were released on the same day.

• June 6, 2007
• Comments closed. 11 comments posted.

MT-Blacklist 1.65, Movable Type 2.65 and Perl 5.8.8

How to solve a compatibility problem with MT-Blacklist 1.65, Movable Type 2.65 and Perl 5.8.8.

• June 7, 2006
• Comments closed. 15 comments posted.

Fixing the dirify function in Movable Type

A solution to the buggy character substitution that Movable Type performs when converting post titles to URL fragments.

• October 17, 2005
• Comments closed. 17 comments posted.

Server maintenance

How to fix a problem with MT-Blacklist giving a Byte order is not compatible error.

• May 29, 2005
• Comments closed. 11 comments posted.

Commenting update

Adding comments to posts at this site should be easier now.

• January 20, 2005
• Comments closed. 9 comments posted.

Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam

How comment spam works and how to fight it.

• January 7, 2005
• Comments closed. 0 comments posted.

Author comment highlighting troubles

Having seen, and liked, how some people have implemented author comment highlighting on their sites, I wanted to do the…

• November 11, 2004
• Comments closed. 12 comments posted.

Going from iso-8859-1 to utf-8

I’d like to start using utf-8 for character encoding. This whole site is currently in iso-8859-1. Each time I try…

• September 4, 2004
• Comments closed. 15 comments posted.

Site update: Quicklinks

I’ve added a section called “Quicklinks” to the sidebar. I needed somewhere to post interesting links together with just a…

• February 24, 2004
• Comments closed. 7 comments posted.

Back from nowhere

I’m sort of back from a much needed break, but it will be another couple of weeks before I resume…

• February 4, 2004
• Comments closed. 0 comments posted.

Trackback ID?

How the hell do trackback ID:s work in Movable Type? I just can’t figure out how to find out what…

• October 25, 2003
• Comments closed. 0 comments posted.

Blacklisting

Posting comments at this site has only been possible for a day, so I have no problems with comment spam…

• October 20, 2003
• Comments closed. 0 comments posted.

Getting there

I’ve spent most of the weekend tweaking things around here. Nothing seems completely broken, but there are one or two…

• October 19, 2003
• Comments closed. 3 comments posted.

Moved to Movable Type

A couple of weeks back I experimented with Movable Type, running it locally on my OS X machine and then…

• October 18, 2003
• Comments closed. 0 comments posted.

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