CMR Movable Type Styles Blog

Dark Marble

2009-10-20T01:59:20Z

This theme was created by Prime Strategy. To see a live demo of it with the Classic Blog template set, go here. Support for the professional website template set will probably come shortly.

Download it now.

Machine

2009-09-15T09:32:01Z

Machine was created by Shane Strong. To see a demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here. To see a demo of it for the Professional Website template set, click here. To download it, click here.

Carrington Blog

2009-09-14T23:56:43Z

This style was created by Alex King, who is a famous WordPress developer and theme designer. It supports both the Professional Website template set and the Classic Blog template set. To download it, click here.

Connections

2009-09-13T02:27:21Z

This is an oldy but a goody. It was originally created for WordPress by Patricia Muller. To see it working with the Classic Blog template set, go here. To see it working with the Professional Website template set, go here. To download it, click here
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Swirly Glow Things

2009-09-11T20:26:14Z

Swirly Glow Things was originally created by Matthew Reese. To see it working with the Classic Blog template set, go here. To see it working for the Professional Website template set, go here. To download it, click here.

Moving to GitHub

2009-08-25T15:16:59Z

In order to better protect the work I've done so far, not to mention make sharing it easier, I have moved active development to GitHub. The repository for the styles I have converted so far can be found here. This blog will still feature updates about what is in the works, but the best place to get a fresh copy of my work so far will be GitHub. People without Git can download a large tarball or zip from that link and then upload the contents to mt-static/themes.

Alaska

2009-05-08T23:36:12Z

This style was originally created for WordPress by SEM Labs. It's a two column style for the Professional Website template set, and it requires two minor changes to the Professional Website template to work. The first is that you must open the blog index, and change the top line to read:

<$mt:Var name="page_layout" value="layout-wm"$>

Then, change the Header template module by moving the main-navigation

to the position shown here:

Download the style. Go here to see a live demonstration of this style.

As always, please leave feedback and suggestions in the comments.

Updates

2009-02-17T18:45:53Z

iNove and Disciple are both ready for people to download and try out.

iNove

2009-02-17T16:52:54Z

Classic blog template set:

Professional blog template set:

To see a live demo of this style as a Classic Blog style, go here. To see it being used with the Professional Template Set, go here. This style was originally created by mg12 as a WordPress theme.

At the top of the Blog Index template in the Professional Template Set, change the variable assignment to read <$mt:Var name="page_layout" value="layout-wm"$> in order to enforce the right layout option.

Download it.

Friday updates

2009-02-13T21:02:05Z

Disciple is almost ready to be released, and I think I'll go ahead and release the iNove style that I have been using on my main blog sometime tonight or this weekend when I get the chance. The iNove style is a bit of a BFD because it's my first attempt at forcing a WordPress style to work with the Professional Template Set from Movable Type Pro.

Now, WRT Disciple, there is a catch. To use it properly, you'll have to edit your classic template a little. I'm going to do my damnedest to figure out how many changes are required and update the Disciple entry to explain how to do that so that even a total newbie won't be lost. Probably based on screenshots or something.

As time has gone on, I've come to accept that sometimes people will have to change their templates to make these styles look the way they are supposed to look. Still, that's probably easier for a lot of people than installing plugins on MT or dropping in new WordPress themes on a self-hosted site.

Blueflower

2009-01-08T19:11:32Z

Live demo without a toolbar.

Live demo with a toolbar.

Download it.

Metamorph Cell

2008-12-04T18:22:36Z

Download it.

If you have any issues, comments or concerns, please leave them in the comments below.

Metamorph Florist

2008-12-04T18:04:46Z

To achieve the toolbar effect, create a module with the following markup and include it right after the

tag marked "content" in each template on your blog.

Home


Archives


Activity

Like this:

<$mt:Include module="Toolbar"$>

Download it.

As always, please leave feedback on issues and how this can be improved in the comments.

Legal Gavel

2008-12-03T18:57:35Z

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2008-11-07T20:49:45Z

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