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Is your Monthly Archive list getting kinda long in your sidebar? Would you like to be able to show and hide it easily, with a few of the months still showing? Someone on the MTForums asked about this today, and I figured it out and thought I'd share it here. The javascript for expanding/collapsing is […]

Someone asked about this on the MT forums, and I really liked how the answer turned out, so I thought I'd add it over here. Some weblogs have a specific set of categories and would like to divide up the index page in columns to help segragate the posts. One such blog is BlogCritics. Other […]

When Movable Type came out with version 2.2, it added a feature for showing the way information on blogs linked together called Trackback. This added a whole great new set of options to the blogging software. With the new version 2.5, Trackback is enhanced by an auto-discovery tool. Auto discovery allows you to link to […]

A lot of people using Skins on their blogs want all of the elements of their journal site to have skins on them. This made a lot of people use Individual Archives as popups so that they could be skinned, too. Unfortunately, with the advent of Trackback in MT2.2, there wasn't a good work-around to […]

Worried about people posting malicious code in your comments, but still want the functionality of HTML enabled comments?? You might want to check out the MT Sanitize Plugin. It "allows you to clean HTML and other markup that might exist in an comment entry." It will let you list the acceptable HTML that you allow […]

Are you running more than one blog from your copy of MT? Would you like to have a list of the latest entries in the order they've been updated? The solutions in the past have required you to add a new template to each blog and then use PHP to order them [Brenna's PHP ordered […]

If you use the amazing MTSearch add-on, then here is an awesome companion tool. Graham has put together a way for you to make a text file (or web page) of the search terms visitors to your site use in the MTSearch tool. Click here to read the hack. I actually have had difficulty getting […]

I really like the look and function of rollovers, but sometimes I don't want to use javascript and I don't want to deal with images. So when I found css/edge's all css popups a while back, I really looked forward to finding a use for them. No javascript, just pure CSS. After a question in […]

Promoguy's got a nice MT hack that sends you more specific info in the subject line of your comment notifications. And another one that gives you that info for trackback notifications. Neato!! (ie. Instead of getting emails with subject lines that say "[PromoGuy dot Net] New TrackBack Ping", you'll get: "New TrackBack on [My Mouth […]

This is a really useful one (to me), and so I am posting it in multiple places! Comment notification hack Here's what Adam says… So I opened up the MT source code and fixed it. Now when I add a comment, I don?t get the email. Thanks to Mariann for pointing out this one to […]