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Add Comment plugin (v1.5) for Movable Type 1

Mar5

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Chipple.net wrote a very nice tutorial on how to add the add comment plugin for MovableType blogs.

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How to Make a Tag Cloud for Movable Type Blogs 1

Mar5

Technology Evangelist wrote a very nice tutorial on how to make a tag cloud for Movable Type blogs.

1. Create a new page for your site for the tag cloud. Click here for instructions on how to do this. I called our tag cloud page tagcloud.html but it doesn’t matter what it’s called (and doesn’t have to have a .php extension).

2. Clear the body of the new page.

3. Paste the following code into the body of your tag cloud page (where you’d like the tag cloud to appear:
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Movable Type Plugin: Wordometer 0

Feb28

Wordometer is used within Movable Type’s Admin interface, on the Edit Entry page. It will could the number of words in your Entry Body, Extended Entry, Excerpt, and Keywords fields, and the number of tags in your Tags field. The word count will update as you type.

Download Wordometer

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SixApart News: Some Favorite Corporate Blogs 0

Dec11

Anil Dash from MovableType posted about some favorite corporate blogs. Anil current at technology evangelism event and one of the speaker was Jeremy Zawodny, a long-time Movable Type blogger, one of Yahoo’s most prominent faces in the blogosphere, and a pretty good judge of how to promote things using blogs.

Anil listed some points on make help make for great business blogs:

* there’s some personality in the writing
* they write about stuff that’s interesting to me (or they write it in an interesting way, and that gets my attention)
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Movable Type is Free for Personal Bloggers 0

Sep11

Yes, it’s free.

For as many authors as you want, as many blogs as you want, you can just go get it. As always, you can have affiliate links or AdSense or a tip jar on your personal blog. And there’s dozens of new capabilities in Movable Type 3.3 that make it well worth the upgrade, including support for tags, widgets, huge improvements to the templating language, and activity feeds that let you manage all of your blog’s activity right from a single feed.

Eventhough its free, you will get no pro support from MovableType, if you do like get one it will only cost you $49.95. Cheap!

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