Archive for the 'Movable Type' Category

MTAdSenseStats (NOT)

[UPDATE - I released it after all, please see MTAdSenseStats for more details]
For the last few nights I’ve been pounding away at my first MT Plugin, MTAdSenseStats. I had even started the announcement that you see striked out below.
But then tonight I got an email from the Google AdSense police:
Hello John,
We’ve noticed that you [...]

The Power of Movable Type

In yet another example of how to leverage the power of Movable Type, Matt Haughey of Metafilter fame has written Beyond the Blog, in which he describes some of the methods he uses to extend Movable Type. In particular he focuses on using MT templates to drive the static pages of a website such [...]

MT Plugin Manager

David Raynes has released a public beta of the Movable Type Plugin Manager. They may have fixed this bug already but in case not, in order to get it working you need to change “param” to “params” on line 197 of manager.pm.
For some reason it did not manage to detect any of my installed [...]

Using Unique Category Templates in Movable Type

If you click on the Book Reviews category archive link in the links section of my main page you will notice that the page layout looks different than any of the other category archives. In my site redesign I wanted to move the book images off of the main page and the category archive [...]

Tonight’s Changes

Made the following changes (improvements?) to the web log tonight:
Added daily archives
Now if you click on a day on the calendar rather than being brought to the first entry of the day you will be brought to a page which includes all entries for that day. The interesting thing here was that since I [...]