Hospitality sales and marketing musings
One of these days, I’m actually going to sit down and write out the evolution of my blog. Given the amount of time I’m spending on my Lifestream, I guess I better hurry before “blog” goes out with the dinosaurs! 1997-2001 Luckily, no screenshots survived the “dark era” of Xoom.com hosted websites. 2001 (Greymatter) We …
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I switched from MovableType to WordPress this week, something I had been putting off for a long time because I had such a highly modified install of MT with a large number of posts & comments. Because mine was a somewhat non-typical install, I had to pull a few tricks to migrate. Here’s a recap, …
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In the process of moving from MovableType to WordPress, I found that MovableType will not export large numbers of entries. My blog was so big, that MT’s default Export Entries feature would time out, copying less than half of my blog. In order to export all of the entries from my large blog, I had …
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Since I upgraded my MovableType install a week or two ago, my del.icio.us links have not been posting properly to MT 3.33. I’m using the daily blog posting feature (always have – haven’t changed it in a year or more), but it has simply stopped working. I’m wondering if maybe I don’t have a setting …
I think I’ve updated to the newest MT. Yep, sure have.
If you use Feedburner to manage your MovableType RSS feeds (you are using Feedburner, aren’t you?!), then you may be interested in adding your comments count for each item to your feed using Feedburner’s FeedFlare option. Although it was originally intended to utilize the Well-Formed Web formats, MT comment counts can be included with just …
I need some MovableType help with MT 3.15. Here’s my problem on another blog: Using dynamic publishing and it’s been working well for quite some time; however, I’ve just recently run into a problem. If I post into a top level category as the primary category, the indivudual archive for that page isn’t created. If …
A lot of people I know would love to be able to post a password protected entry now & then. Most of the scripts that enable such posts are hard to implement & even harder to maintain. Arvind has come up with an elegant php solution that allows you to supply a password for each …
When I saw the demo of TypePad, the one thing that really stood out to me was the really cool edit entry interface. It turns out that the interface is HTMLArea, a very cool WYSIWYG front end. Arvind has documented the process for adding HTMLArea to MovableType. I’m thinking this is the perfect solution for …
