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In the past 24 hours, I’ve done quite a bit with the server move… I’ll try to document the actual steps I went through at some point, so that someone else moving from MT to WP can sort of follow my steps (hopefully they’ll plan it out a little better) if they want to.
Basically, [...]

I’m turning off comments on this website … the comment spam is just too much. If I have to I’ll kill the comment creating cgis too… And I’ll eventually move this site to Wordpress … I’ve been playing with WP enough to know that I like it, I just have to do the site [...]

This:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^POST$
RewriteRule ^/mt/mt-comments.cgi – [F]
From Jeremy: Using mod_rewrite against stupid comment spam bots… (by Jeremy Zawodny).
You rock Jeremy. Thanks.

Ok, I succumbed to the pressure. I’m playing with WordPress, but not really because I chose to download it and install it, rather, because I was searching for a new host for a buddy’s website, DubMiller.com, and I was referred to Dreamhost by a different buddy.
After the initial account set up, I noticed in [...]

I’ve been threatening to upgrade to MovableType 3.1 for a little while, and have decided I’m finally going to do it.
Last night I backed up my website, and will be doing the upgrade either today, or later this week (just maybe over the weekend, but more than likely I’ll be doing it earlier than that).
Why [...]

I’m looking to move my family site, englers.org, from PHPNuke to MovableType. I’m wondering if anyone else had done, and if so, if they’ve got a tipe, trick, or script for doing so?
I foung one post in the MT Support forums, PHPNuke to MT, Converting from PHPNuke to MT, but it’s pretty [...]

Six Apart just released MovableType 3.0 (about time) and I have to say that I think it’s worth paying for for 90% of the audience that it’s aimed at (hackers and developers and people that want to ‘own’ their blogging service).
I have to applaud Six Apart for charging for MT 3.0, but the pricing structure [...]

Following the footsteps of Jeremy Zawodny, Jason Kottke, Mark Pilgrim and others, I’ve established my very own linkblog.
On it, I’ll post links that I think are interesting enough to read, but either don’t have the time or energy, or need, to write anything in depth about them.
An RSS feed is here, and the templates are [...]

Keith posted a question, and the answer to that same question:
How do I add an ‘edit this page’ button to a Movable Type weblog?
Very cool. Thanks Keith.

Angie McKaig tackles the Full RSS Feed question. I subscribe to Angie’s full feed, and I think her site has a wonderful design.
I subscribe to her full feed because I’d like to read her site whenever it’s updated, and… I really don’t have the capacity or desire to remember to visit her [...]

Jeremy Wright asked me to tell him how to put full posts in his RSS templates, so, here are all of my RSS feeds and their templates:

RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup and comments. [template]
RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup but without comments. [template]
RSS 1.0 Full Feed, without HTML markup and [...]

I just love asking questions on my weblog, because I almost always get a useful answer. In this case, I got a bunch of great answers.
Brent gets props for giving me the right answer first… turns out the URL for pinging weblogs.com shouldn’t have a trailing slash after it… I have no idea [...]

Why do I see this entry in my MT activity log so often:
Ping ‘http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/’ failed: HTTP error: 404 Not Found
Anyone know?

Ok, after having my comments broken all day, because I tried to install MT-Blacklist without Storable.pm installed (it’s required), I’ve gotten it to work. I got an email from a few of you alerting me to my broken comments, and I appreciate it. If your host doesn’t support Storable.pm and it’s a shared [...]

MT Blacklist – a plugin for getting rid of MovableType comment spam… coming to a blog near you as soon as I find time to install it.

Found at MarketingWonk: Feeding Ads Through Feeds
A reader of Lockerknome wrote this:
If RSS just becomes another polluted source of noise, it will be no better than email or the Web are right now. If an RSS feed is going to have ads interspersed with content, itís not saving me time. What made RSS feeds unique [...]

overheard at:

In case you didn’t notice, I finally did a little housekeeping with my URL structure (after writing about it many, many times). Thanks in large part to a bunch of articles I’ve read recently about URLs, and an excellent conversion tutorial from Olivier Travers (which is where almost all of my tricks came from), [...]

Just an FYI:
This IP address: 200.72.26.98 has been spamming my referrer logs…
they’ve been banned.

For the past week I’ve been pretty busy… here are a few things I’ve read recently and needed to blogmark:
MT Medic [via Pat Berry]
Interesting graph on SARS
Let’s Make a Cell-Phone Deal – I’ve done this. It works. More from ArsTechnica.
Working with Forms in PHP, Part 1 and Part 2. Great information on [...]

Thanks to all the comments on my most recent Related Entries post, I’ve installed Adam Kalsey’s Related Entries code.
The simple steps were to install Brad Choate’s excellent MTSQL plugin.
Then use Adam’s code on my individual entry templates, and viola, I now have Related Entries for people coming from Google looking for information. Interestingly, we [...]

Related Entries from within my own MT database is something else I’m interested in adding to my weblog soon.

I’m trying to learn more about hacks for Movable Type. What I really, really want is a way to send out notifications immediately after a posting is made (well perhaps time delayed by 5 minutes) but auto-notify doesn’t seem to be something that anyone has built yet. Ideally, I’d like to see a [...]

It’s funny. I’ve learned over the past few years to do almost all of my editing and writing in BBEdit, this this post: BBEdit Shovelware pretty much sums up my thoughts too (though I’ve paid for the full version of NNW)

Kasia’s planning on reworking her archives, and her reasoning makes a lot of sense… I’ll have to keep an eye on how she reworks them, and see if it makes sense to do that here, and possibly on MarketingFix.

All webloggers should use TrackBack if their weblogging software supports it, and this article helps point to some more articles that explain a little of the ‘why’ question.

I use BBEdit to write all of my entries for this weblog, as well as to edit the templates remotely, so finding this MT Glossary for BBEdit was quite cool. I’m looking forward to using it soon to update some parts of this site and MarketingFix.
[via PixelCharmer]

So says Dan, [via Phil]
The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information. Weblogs are frequently updated, with items appearing in reverse chronological order (the most recent postings appear first). Typically they include links to other pages on [...]

I’ve had a few RSS feeds for this site for a while, but today, I decided it was time to clean them up a bit.
I searched Unsanity.org’s Archives for a post that had a link to their RDF+comments template and found this entry (after manually searching — upgrade your MT installation Unsanity).
So, I’ve now created [...]

Here’s a list of links for you to peruse on Friday:
Hoover’s & D&B: Perfect Together? from the Perkins Group [PDF] [via TEOF]
Fantastic List of MovableType Template Tags [via lovelinks]
PR Opinions – a cool PR focused weblog [via my referers]
Apple Airport Weblog — brand new, and looking good.
abstemious – Word of the Day from 1/16. [...]

<Note to Self>
Add Custom Buttons to the MarketingFix Entry interface for easier ‘blockquoting’
<End Note to Self>

Tonight, I was working on some backend development for MarketingFix.com, our internet marketing weblog, and I found this list of MovableType plugins on love-productions.
I had not realized that Kristine had put together such a great resource, but am grateful that she has.
In the near (relatively) future, I plan on looking into these plugins for use [...]

So, us MarketingFix folks have decided that we needed a private weblog so that we could post things that others might need to see in a written + image form, in addition to our little email list that we’ve set up (thanks to EZMLM)… it’ll also help my colleagues learn more about MovableType I’m thinking [...]

Anders Jacobsenís Optimizing Movable Type series is a phenomenal read for all Movable Type users looking to get the most out of their MT installation.
You’ll find great tips, and the reasons to implement them too. Things like Category XML feeds, Meta tags (a quick hack), get more readers (tips on how to do just [...]

A while back I mentioned Textism’s excellent Refer package, but I didn’t install it because I didn’t have access to a mySQL database on my old host, so, this past week I move hosting companies (now I own the box that this site resides on). With that, I gained mySQL support (thank you very [...]

It took all of 5 minutes… and only that long because the proxy server here at work slows FTP from my Mac down considerably… Too easy… I love Ben and Mena.
[Note: Now I just have to come up with something truly great for Kasia to link to, so I can test the trackback fixes...]

Looks like if I upgrade to MT 2.5.1, my trackback URLs might work again… so I’ll do that this weekend and will need someone to test them (Kasia?)

Michael Kelly tells us that you can email the folks at mastodonte.com (not giving them another link) and ask them to remove your weblog from their database, and they say that they’ll never spam your referrer logs again…
… whatever, I just blocked their IP address, and will continue to check my referrers for spam. [...]

A while ago I recommended to Scott the use of Movable Type. He said that he’d looked into it, but that he’d decided against it because the licensing was too odd. He wasn’t sure if he could use the ‘free’ license for individuals, or if he had to buy the corporate license (at [...]

Mark Pilgrim points out this RSS Feed Validator
Thanks to the validator’s Movable Type RSS Templates my RSS 2.0 feed validates as does my RSS 1.0 feed.
Do yours?

Just added David Raynes MTSearch plugin to the right sidebar of the site. Now I can see what’s being searched for, and others can too.
[via lovelinks]

Thanks to pixelcharmer for pointing me to this list of referrer links information by IAWiki.

Let me get set one thing straight for the record:
My hosting company isn’t all that bad. I’m the idiot that didn’t read the manual that accompanies Movable Type. My hosting company upgraded the Berkley Databases (or so it seems) and I didn’t read the manual’s “troubleshooting” section on that.
I’m an idiot. IntuitiveISP, [...]

I upgraded to Moveable Type 2.5 today. I finally realized that the plugin that was causing me problems was my implementation of Brad Choate’s Regex plugin (note there may not actually be anything wrong with Brad’s plugin, but rather with my use of it… not sure yet). The result of this discovery is [...]

I tried to upgrade to Moveable Type 2.5 early this morning. It didn’t work, but I really think that’s because I have to figure out what changes I made in MT 2.2 with all the plugins/modules I’ve installed… a quick untar/upload just won’t cut it on my installation… but I’ll get it done by [...]

Ok, so I started this blog with the detault 100 characters (or is it words) that Movable type installs as the RDF feed, and I didn’t like that. It parsed out the HREFs and IMGs and didn’t give any information.
Then I hacked the RDF feed to have the entire first paragraph in it, until [...]

Ok, curly quotes are now part of this weblog. Woohoo!
And I’m not writing any instructions, because these instructions by Matt are so easy to follow, it’d be a shame to try and steal them from him.
Get yourself some “curly quotes” today.

A while back I tried to use Daring Fireball’s curly quotes scripts and templates, but it wouldn’t work for me at the time (for reasons I still don’t understand.
Today, I read this post by Todd Dominey, and am in the process of trying to get them to work. (If I get it to work, [...]

Due to some developments by Phil, and using his template and plugin for movable type, I’ve created a comments RDF feed for inluminent/weblog.
The URL is here:
http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/comments.rdf
So, if you’re interested in syndicating my comments (not sure why this is useful yet, but I’m sure Phill will point it out eventually) then drop that URL into your [...]