August 2008 Archives

FogBugz reorganization

Chris Ernest Hall - 25 Aug 2008 - 1 comments

Just a quick note to say that now we have shipped MT 4.2, we are tweaking the way we organize the MT FogBugz instance. Since we launched the open-source project with MT 4.1, we've had two projects that have held... Continue Reading

Connecting mixi Users with Movable Type Communities

- 22 Aug 2008 - 0 comments

As we started to show with Movable Type Pro last week, blogging is evolving to encompass the world of social networking and connect to the rest of the web; merging publishing with community. Since the release of Movable Type 4.0... Continue Reading

Important Update: Movable Type 4.21 now available

Byrne Reese - 21 Aug 2008 - 7 comments

In recent days two significant issues in the Movable Type 4.2 release were reported by our community. One of these bugs can potentially result in some form of limited data loss, and the other could cause loss of some configuration... Continue Reading

Creating Drop-Down Navigation with Movable Type

Byrne Reese - 16 Aug 2008 - 26 comments

A common question from Movable Type users and designers is, "how do I create nice navigation for my web site?" The Professional Website template set and even Mid-Century have navigation build in. But there are Movable Type themes out there... Continue Reading

Another hallmark design for Movable Type

Byrne Reese - 16 Aug 2008 - 16 comments

A lot of Movable Type users are about to be given another great reason to upgrade to Movable Type 4.2: the release of the Mid-Century template set by Jim Ramsey. Jim also designed the Professional Website template set (formally known... Continue Reading

Movable Type Warm and Fuzzies

Byrne Reese - 13 Aug 2008 - 4 comments

It has been less then 24 hours since we released Movable Type 4.2 and the feedback has been wonderful! I have been answering people's questions about upgrading, installing and migrating to Movable Type 4.2 all day -- its almost as... Continue Reading

Movable Type 4.2 is here!

Byrne Reese - 12 Aug 2008 - 36 comments

Today is one of the most exciting days in the history of Movable Type. Our community's hard work has yielded one of the most significant and important releases in Movable Type's history: Movable Type 4.2. This new release is the... Continue Reading

Movable Type 4.2 RC5 and Security Updates

Byrne Reese - 8 Aug 2008 - 9 comments

We've mentioned it on the Movable Type product site, but we're proud that MT has a history of being one of the most secure publishing platforms around. So a big part of our effort in creating Movable Type 4.2 has... Continue Reading

Collating and displaying content from multiple sources using Movable Type

Byrne Reese - 7 Aug 2008 - 4 comments

Nick O'Neill just published a great screencast and howto about using a plugin few people know about: Mark Pasc's Order plugin for Movable Type. Order is a plugin that allows one to build and merge a list of content from... Continue Reading

Website outage update

Byrne Reese - 4 Aug 2008 - 10 comments

On August 3rd around 11:30pm, the machine hosting a number of Movable Type web sites, including this one suffered a major hardware failure. We worked through the night and into the day in order to restore availability as quickly as... Continue Reading
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