Posts in the category “blogtech”
This category contains all my posts about blogging technology — plug-ins, themes, design, etc.
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Journaling
The journaling script is a cms you can use to keep a blog. It is one of the original blogging systems and is still popular. It’s not as easy to use as Blogger, of course, but it’s worth a look if you know a little about the guts of the ‘net and are thinking about
Updates
If you’re using MovableType to maintain your blog, you can add the following bit of code to allow readers to automatically add themselves to your Update / Notify list: <form method=”post” action=”<$MTCGIPath$>mt-add-notify.cgi”> <b>Get updates via email:</b><br /> <input type=”hidden” name=”blog_id” value=”<$MTBlogID$>” /> <input type=”hidden” name=”_redirect” value=”<$MTBlogURL$>” /> <input name=”email” size=”18″ /> <input type=”submit” value=”Sign Up!”
Editing
If you visit http://www.davidgagne.net/ you’ll see a period – . – before each link to an entry’s comments. That period is a link to the editing window for that particular entry. As long as I am logged in to MovableType, I can click on that link and immediately begin editing the post. Here’s the link
Revisions
Oof! It took a lot of work, but I finally converted all of my main blog to MovableType. All the comments were imported, too, so I’m pretty happy about that. Now every little piece of this domain is converted. I can finally get to blogging again. And finding a job.
Hemingway
It took a few hours, but I finally converted almost all of my Hemingway site into The Hemingway Blog. It’s in MovableType now and I’m very pleased with the result. I still have to get the dozens (multiple dozens!) of essays on the author into some sort of bloggable format, but that’s just a bunch
XML-RPC Ping
Ben has written a tutorial on adding weblogs.com XML-RPC PING functionality to your MovableType blog. Woo! What does this mean? It means that if you follow the steps in the tutorial, whenever you add an entry to your MovableType blog, MT will automatically ping weblogs.com to alert that you have updated.
Previous / Next
If you’re using MovableType to run your blog, here’s the HTML to include ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons (with a ‘Home’ button in the middle) on your individual entry pages: <div align=”center”> <form> <MTEntryPrevious><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryPrevious> <input type=”button” value=”Home” onclick=”window.location='<$MTBlogURL$>’;”> <MTEntryNext><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryNext> </form> </div>
Last Updated
I’ve created a “Last Updated” system in my MT network and, although I’m sure it can be done better, I thought I’d share. I have five separate MT blogs running now. On my main page (which will be converted to MT once the ability to import GreyMatter comments is part of MT) I wanted to
the good stuff
I completed another of my web development tasks tonight. One of my sub-blogs, the good stuff is now a MovableType blog. The good stuff is the sidebar list of ten links. These are links that I want to bookmark for one reason or another, but about which I don’t feel like writing an entire blog