October 2008 Archives

Taking full advantage of template module caching

Movable Type offers a number of features to help administrators increase the performance of their system. Chief among them is template module caching. As the name may imply, any template module in Movable Type can have caching enabled, which causes... Continue Reading

Taking full advantage of template module caching

Movable Type offers a number of features to help administrators increase the performance of their system. Chief among them is template module caching. As the name may imply, any template module in Movable Type can have caching enabled, which causes... Continue Reading

Making it easier to debug and test your templates

Sometimes there can be nothing more frustrating than trying to troubleshoot publishing performance. Often users must resort to the brute force method of debugging, such as: embedding print STDERR statements in Movable Type's source code - but how many people... Continue Reading

Obtaining total transparency into your publishing system

Movable Type has proven time and time again that it can help some of the Internet's most influential and most innovative blogs become some of the largest as well. Not every content management system is up to the task of... Continue Reading

Google Sitemap and Template Caching Tips

On a recent call with the Movable Type Community we discussed and shared tips on how to best take advantage of Movable Type's built in caching system. One of the tips I shared is something I have been doing on... Continue Reading

The Little Things: Comment Replies

A lot of times, some of the most satisfying things about using Movable Type are the little touches that make managing a site easier or more convenient. One of those great, unheralded features that's been around since MT4's release is... Continue Reading

Migrating from Right Fields to Custom Fields - the beta begins

Today we are happy to announce a public beta of a new plugin for Movable Type that helps users using Right Fields on Movable Type 3.x upgrade to Movable Type 4.2 using Custom Fields. There has been a great need... Continue Reading