September 2010 Archives

(This post is part of a series on why Movable Type is an excellent choice as both a CMS and a blog engine. The previous post was the Introduction, the next post is The Movable Type Communities.) If you are...

Six Apart is now SAY Media

There was big news in the world of Movable Type this week, as parent company Six Apart merged with advertising company VideoEgg. The new entity will be known as SAY Media.SAY Media wasted no time in expressing its commitment to......

Why Movable Type — 1. Introduction - Blog

(This post is part of a series on why Movable Type is an excellent choice as both a CMS and a blog engine. This is the introduction. The next post is Myths, FUD and reality about Movable Type) Introduction Following...
Hi Vince. Please accept our apologies for not responding until now. I'm going through the system looking for straggler posts like this one and wanted to know if this issue is still relevant for you. If so, please let me...
Hi Helene. Please accept our apologies for not responding until now. I'm going through the system looking for straggler posts like this one and wanted to know if this issue is still relevant for you. If so, please let me...

ConfigAssistant Install

Glad you got it running, Vince. Let us know if you have any other problems...

ConfigAssistant Install

Glad you got it running, Vince. Let us know if you have any other problems...

SanitizeBlogs 2

Specify HTML tags and attributes allowed in entry/page fields based upon system or blog settings. Functions in same manner as, but is distinct from, the GlobalSanitizeSpec configuration directive. A typical use case of this plugin is to cleanup the mess...

Movable Type will Continue Evolving !

After the recent announcement about Six Apart, some of you might have been wondering about the future of Movable Type. We can be very clear about that: of course we will continue development and support of this platform that now...
Try installing the Media Manager plugin for Movable Type. It should not be required, but installing it might alleviate the problems you are seeing....
After the recent announcement about Six Apart, some of you might have been wondering about the future of Movable Type. We can be very clear about that: of course we will continue development and support of this platform that now...
Much has been done to Theme Manager since the last update on this ticket so I'm going to close it out. Please re-open if needed....
Much has been done to Theme Manager since the last update on this ticket so I'm going to close it out. Please re-open if needed....

SAY: Hello

My husband Ben and I started Six Apart in 2001—and with you, the bloggers and creators, we changed the way people expressed themselves online. In doing so, we have helped to redefine the media landscape. Thank you for embracing our...
Those of you who've followed us over the years have seen us through a number of changes as Six Apart, and the industry we helped to create, has evolved. What started with a simple goal to make creating and...
Those of you who've followed us over the years have seen us through a number of changes as Six Apart, and the industry we helped to create, has evolved. What started with a simple goal to make creating and publishing...
Those of you who've followed us over the years have seen us through a number of changes as Six Apart, and the industry we helped to create, has evolved. What started with a simple goal to make creating and publishing...
Yay team!...
Yay team!...

Movable Of type 5.03

Brian Morrissey / Adweek:VideoEgg Buys Six Apart  —  Makes bid to become ‘modern media company’  —  Rich media ad network VideoEgg is recasting itself as Say Media after its purchase of blog platform Six Apart.  —  The absorption of...

OutOfContext

OutOfContext adds a block template tag to take a block of template code out of the context of current template. This means that context sensitive tags can be built with a fresh context....
A mouthful of an update is a tasty addition!
The parent category archive is re-constructed at the time of entry contribution of sub category. Twitter/Kousuke Nakatani: [a] this deletion time it does not move, it is with shank RT @junn… [a] this deletion time it does not move, it...

Proper form release pleasure mtVicunaSimple

When the tag of MT or the tag of plug in spitting error with dynamic publishing, it is the case that “the dynamic publishing error” templet is called, but because 404 (Not Found) error and error of the tag the...

I'm trying to set up MovableType 4.34 using a Postgres database, and I'm getting the following (unhelpful) error message:

Connection error: authentication method 7 not supported

The database server doesn't support SSL connections, so I suspect that's to blame -- but I can't be sure (what is "authentication method 7" ?), and at any rate it's not clear to me how to see if MT is trying to use SSL connections for the database or not. Any ideas?

I'm trying to set up MovableType 4.34 using a Postgres database, and I'm getting the following (unhelpful) error message:

Connection error: authentication method 7 not supported

The database server doesn't support SSL connections, so I suspect that's to blame -- but I can't be sure (what is "authentication method 7" ?), and at any rate it's not clear to me how to see if MT is trying to use SSL connections for the database or not. Any ideas?

Is your company active in social media? Then you’re probably asking yourself where to allocate your budget: to paid media or earned media - or some combination of both. If this is on your mind, we hope you’ll join...
Join us in Las Vegas October 14th-16th for BlogWorld & New Media Expo, the world’s largest New Media event, and take advantage of our special Promotional Code SIXAPART20 to receive a 20% discount! You’ll learn about content creation, distribution and...

v5.03 is here for you to evaluate it!

It's a pleasure for me to keep updating this movable type demo Web site initiative to the latest version even from the sunny Greece, where I'm spending a nice 1 week short holiday.Upgrading from v5.02 to the just released v5.03...

Movable Type 5.03

Movable Type 5.03 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain any security fix. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the release note. 5.03 Release Note Download...
Movable Type 5.03 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain any security fix. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the release note. 5.03 Release Note Download...

Default Category Plugin

Dan Wolfgang's beautiful plugin for specifying a default category

Using MTAppjQuery, it outputs Tag summary

ImageCropper issue

Hi Jay, This issue was a while ago, so I’m going from my notes. But I do recall that I wasn’t able to select one of the thumbnail prototypes. Figured out the problem was a jquery conflict. Here’s my exact...

You can set what the Facebook Share preview says. I would like it to be the first paragraph of my movable type entry. The people who make entries sometimes use

<p> 

tags or they use the rich editor which puts in two

<br /><br />

tags to separate paragraphs.

Is there a way I can have movable type detect when the first paragraph end and only display the first paragraph? I would like to add that to my entry template so it will add some information to my head.

You can set what the Facebook Share preview says. I would like it to be the first paragraph of my movable type entry. The people who make entries sometimes use

<p> 

tags or they use the rich editor which puts in two

<br /><br />

tags to separate paragraphs.

Is there a way I can have movable type detect when the first paragraph end and only display the first paragraph? I would like to add that to my entry template so it will add some information to my head.