Category Archives: Six Apart

Movable Type 3.2 is here

Six Apart released the final version of Movable Type 3.2 today, almost a full year after the release of 3.1 on August 31, 2004. New feature highlights: A detailed user manual. New templates allow default markup compatibility across all Six Apart properties. Trusted commentors, junk folders, and simpler individual archive templates help authors fight spam while jumping through less setup hoops. SpamLookup is a bundled plugin. Reworked administrative interface including color icons and list actions. Bundled with an OpenID server as an extra feature. Atom 1.0 template is included while the RSS 1.0 template has been removed. Separate configurable…

Movable Type 3.2 includes free license for unlimited weblogs

Mena Trott just announced a new license structure for Movable Type 3.2: “all users will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. This goes for free users, as well.” Six Apart’s current pricing structure allows an unpaid user of Movable Type up to 3 weblogs with unlimited weblog licenses available for a Personal Basic license fee of $70. The change makes sense as it allows Six Apart to track all of its licenses based on the number of authors. Tags: movabletype…

Atom 1.0 template for Movable Type

I just finished my Atom 1.0 feed template for Movable Type. I believe it is compliant with the Atom 1.0 specification and my feed validates according to Feed Validator. Movable Type template My Atom 1.0 feed I will not switch my blog’s advertised Atom feed from 0.3 to 1.0 until Bloglines, NetNewsWire, and NewsGator support Atom 1.0 format. Tags: atom10, movabletype…

Movable Type 3.2 is coming

Guess what? There will be a new version of Movable Type sometime in the future. Six Apart will talk about some of the new features in the latest version of their software sometime between now and when it’s released. They are sure you will enjoy the upgrade. Yep, that’s a summary of a real announcement from Six Apart. No big surprise that there is a new version that will contain new features so I’m not really sure the point of the announcement other than admitting the versioning of the next release. Tags: movabletype…

Google Sitemaps using Movable Type

It’s pretty easy to make an XML Sitemap of your blog for easy parsing by Google or other search engines. Just create a new index template and copy the code below. Choose an output file that is easy to remember such as sitemap.xml. Save and rebuild your new template file once you paste the code. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <urlset xmlns=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84″> <url> <loc><$MTBlogURL encode_xml=”1″$></loc> <priority>1.0</priority> </url> <MTEntries lastn=”9999″> <url> <loc><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml=”1″$></loc> <lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate utc=”1″ format=”%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ”$></lastmod> </url> </MTEntries> </urlset> Now you need to let Google know where to find your sitemap. Open up your web browser and enter http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap= + the URL-encoded location…

Movable Type 3.17 released

Six Apart just released version 3.17 of Movable Type, a minor bug fix upgrade. From the changelog: Nofollow plugin version 1.2 fixes “a bug in the nofollow plugin which causes HTML sanitization of everything within an <MTPings> block.” Finally! The nofollow code is licensed under The Artistic License if anyone wants to tweak and rerelease. mt-db2sql.cgi now has better handling of subcategories. I like the availability of a changed files document to save me time….

Anil Dash in New York Times wearing a goatse shirt

Anil Dash appears in the Thursday, June 2, edition of The New York Times posing in the Six Apart offices wearing a goatse t-shirt. I think it’s in bad taste to appear in a national publication in your employer’s offices while wearing apparel promoting pornography but that’s just me. (via Boing Boing)Tags: goatse…

Customizing default ping options in Movable Type

Movable Type allows you to easily publicize your blog by pinging Weblogs.com, blo.gs, and Technorati with each post. Movable Type administrators should view these three built-in services as default options that can be easily changed for each Movable Type installation. Think of the three checkboxes above as three variables: BlogsPingURL, WeblogsPingURL, and TechnoratiPingURL. These variables can be overridden in your Movable Type configuration file (mt.cfg) by adding a line with the variable name and value. Each replacement server must be a valid XML-RPC ping beacon similar to Weblogs.com. BlogsPingURL http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Adding the line above to your mt.cfg file will send…

One year since Movable Type 3.0

A year ago today Six Apart launched Movable Type 3.0 and introduced their new pricing structure and rebranded as a publishing platform. The announcement resulted in over 800 TrackBack links. Each Movable Type download had yielded $0.38 and the company decided it was time for a new pricing structure. Six Apart underestimated the community’s reaction to the change. The commercial license pricing remains unchanged a year later while the personal licenses are a lot cheaper than originally announced. Six Apart has since introduced educational, non-profit, developer, and single author personal use licenses for their software….