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Wordometer updated for Movable Type 5.x and 6.x

2014-03-13T15:35:00Z

The old Wordometer plugin has received a refresh: support for Movable Type 5.x and 6.x! The functionality is basically unchanged: after installing the plugin it will automatically count words in a text field on the Edit Entry and Edit...

Movable Ink Launches agileEMAIL, A Platform For Email Marketing

2014-03-10T15:56:27Z

Startup Movable Ink has been trying to improve marketing emails with real-time content, and now it's launching a broader platform called agileEMAIL. Co-founder and CEO Vivek Sharma said agileEMAIL includes the company's older tools, but where it previously offered a...

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MovableType 5.2.6 — modify default html markup of assets added to an entry?

2014-02-19T02:34:22Z

I know that for a long time MT has not made it easy / accessible to edit the default markup that wraps an [image] asset when it is inserted into a MT entry. (So strange that this hasn't been created as a system module like everything else.)

There is one plugin that seemed to solve this problem, though it was written for MT 4* and seems to be defunct: https://github.com/endevver/mt-plugin-custom-asset-markup I've installed it, anyway, and it's unclear how it's supposed to work or be triggered / managed (there are no settings, though I may be doing it wrong).

Every time an image is inserted into an entry, I want its markup to include a few of its properties in the tag. For example, I want to assign the ID value of each image when it's inserted into the entry body:

" … />

Has this problem been solved in MT 6? (I'm holding off a system upgrade till we launch as I don't want to destabilize right now, but might be worth it.)
Tips on how to operate the plugin above?
Any suggestions / hacks, other than editing the Perl modules directly or writing my own plugin?

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Re: 0x07 SEC-T.org 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS Process Start NEW CONFERENCE DATES!

2014-02-18T12:25:28Z

Posted by Mattias Bååth on Feb 18Hey all, again. It has come to our attention that our conference dates again collided with the dates of the UK conference 44CON. So out of our infinite wisdome and kindness to everyone in...

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Movable Type v6.0.2

2014-01-29T22:30:07Z

In January the 15th, 2014, Six Apart launched Movable Type v6.0.2 and with this occasion it made available also the Enterprise edition, called Movable Type Advanced (v6.0.2).This version includes a series of improvements, from compatibility with Internet Explorer 11, to...

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Movable Type 6.0.1, 5.2.9, and 5.161 Security Updates

2014-01-29T22:19:40Z

In November the 15th, 2013, Six Apart released a mandatory security update for movable type v5x and v6x.The security issue that was identified and fixed is related to the Rich Text Editor present in movable type v5 and v6 which...

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how to fetch old RSS feeds from movabletype site?

2014-01-29T17:33:52Z

Is there any instructor for that? I mean some way to access other pages of movabletype feed?

Example:

MovableTypeSite/feed/page=10

MovableTypeSite/feed/rss?page=7

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StyleSeat, An Online Marketplace For Stylists & Beauty Pros, Raises $10.2M Series A From Lightspeed

2014-01-22T12:30:59Z

As hinted at last month, salon-booking service StyleSeat has now closed on its Series A round of funding. Led by Lightspeed Ventures, the company has raised an additional $10.2 million in outside investment, bringing its total raise to date to...

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How do I set 301 redirects to strip off .html file extensions?

2014-01-17T23:37:31Z

I am working on migrating a MovableType blog to Wordpress.

All of the old post urls end in .html.

Example:

http://ec2-174-129-85-183.compute-1.amazonaws.com/archives/2013/12/all_quiet_on_th.html

However, when I updated the post names in wordpress to include the .html extensions, I kept getting 404 errors.

So what I want to do now is redirect all of the requests for pages that end in .html to the same pages but without the .html.

For example:

.../archives/2013/12/all_quiet_on_th.html

Would 301 redirect to:

.../archives/2013/12/all_quiet_on_th

Here is my current .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress

# Ensure the rewriet module is loaded

# enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
# Set the root directory
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


# END WordPress

Can you please advise what changes I can make to this file for this to work?

I tried 5 or 6 different versions on the internet already, but it is not working and I am not sure why not.

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[SECURITY] [DSA 2841-1] movabletype-opensource security update

2014-01-13T16:19:55Z

Posted by Moritz Muehlenhoff on Jan 13------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2841-1 security () debian org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 11, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : movabletype-opensource Vulnerability : cross-site......

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[SECURITY] [DSA 2841-1] movabletype-opensource security update

2014-01-11T18:33:35Z

Posted by Moritz Muehlenhoff on Jan 11------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2841-1 security () debian org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 11, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : movabletype-opensource Vulnerability : cross-site......

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Parrot Shows Off New MiniDrone And Leaping Sumo Rolling Bot

2014-01-06T00:24:02Z

French Bluetooth company turned drone-maker Parrot has some new hardware for CES 2014, including two brand new smartphone-controlled bots. One is the rolling, jumping Sumo and the other is the MiniDrone, a super small version of its popular AR Drone...

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Apple’s New Mac Pro In Pictures: Beauty And The Beast

2013-12-23T22:02:49Z

Apple has a brand new Mac Pro with an all-new, bold design that's assembled at home in the U.S. in a facility in Texas. It's easily among the most bold and unique designs of a Mac in recent memory, bringing...

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MovableType: One wrapper template for Pages and Entries

2013-12-21T21:45:30Z

We're using MT to manage publishing for our marketing site (pages), help docs (blog1), and company news (blog2). The goal is for these to feel like part of the same site — same headers / footers etc — and to keep it maintainable by reusing code. We already have the pages / site set up and working; we're working on the blogs now.

Our main template for all our pages has this:

  
    
      <$mt:PageBody$>

Is there a way to basically switch the IF statement and test for whether it's an entry? MT documentation implies that pages are a subset of entries.

  
    <$mt:PageBody$>
  
    // entry-related tags and formatting go here

Is this the approach I should take or am I barking up the wrong tree? I've been using MT for years but my mental model of it is still pretty weak...

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The Great #CMS Giveaway - Prize #2

2013-12-17T15:32:00Z

It's giveaway time again and this time we're giving away a great package from the fine folks at MovableType!...

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