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February 04, 2008

Scheduling Entries for Future Posting Increased to Twice Daily

The option to schedule blog entries for future posting has been enhanced. Scheduled postings will now be picked up twice daily, at noon and at midnight. Previously, this took place daily only at midnight. For more information, see the post,...

June 11, 2007

How to Change the Challenge Word in the Comment Anti-Spam Plugin

The Comment Challenge plugin does a great job of preventing comment spam. It requires commenters to type a specific word in a Web form in order for the comment to be published. This plugin is being implemented on all of...

May 10, 2007

Comment Anti-Spam Plugin Now Available

Are you getting spam comments in your blog? If so, we've got a solution: the Comment Challenge plugin. This plugin sets a score to determine allowable comments. If a comment fails, it is scored as Junk and never makes it...

August 29, 2006

Scheduling Entries for Future Posting

We have implemented a feature that allows you to schedule entries for future posting. The script that runs this feature executes daily at midnight. UPDATE on 2/4/2008: the script now executes twice daily, at noon and at midnight. To...

January 13, 2006

Uploading a File to your Blog

You may want to upload documents, image files or other types of files to your blog. Here's how. 1. Log in to Movable Type and click on the "Upload File" menu option. 2. A pop-up page will appear to...

September 07, 2005

Changing the Basic Look of Your Blog

Please note that you must take responsibility for any design changes you make to your blog. This document will give you ideas on how to redesign your blog, but we cannot provide support for these activities. The basic look...

September 06, 2005

Working with Categories

Movable Type gives you the option to organize your postings into categories. This can be very useful for certain types of blogs. There are a few parts to working with Movable Type Categories. The first is mandatory, while the...

Making Your Sidebar an MTInclude

The sidebar code is extensive. If you want to place your sidebar on multiple archive templates or other files in your blog, this is a lot of code to manage in all those separate files. Also, perhaps you will...