August 08, 2004
Comment Spam? MT-Blacklist...
I have been looking for something like this for quite some time. My site is constantly bombarded by Comment Spam. It's usually for Viagra, some sex site, or something else I don't want. Jay Allen has come up with an MT plugin to alleviate the situation: MT-Blacklist (User Guide). It seems to be compatible with 2.x MT, and not yet Movable Type 3.0, which for me, is a problem being as I have just upgraded to 3.0 (defintley worth it!). Also check out the Comment Spam Clearinghouse.
From Adam Kalsey:
"The arms race against comment spammers has been stepped up a notch. I received a flurry of spam that linked to entries on other blogs. Curious to see what that was all about, I clicked on one of the links, fully expecting to be redirected to porn or an online casino. I was surprised to see a discussion of patent law; this comment spam linked to a legitimate site.
The comment that I received was certainly spam — other than the odd link, it was the typical formula: the name was “online casinos,” fake generic email address, and a vapid comment. Certainly a Stanford law professor hadn’t actually sent the spam. There was another reason this spammer was promoting someone else’s blog entry.The blog entry in question was full of comment spam. In the last 3 months, this entry had accumulated thousands of spam links in the comments.
It appears the spammers have a new tactic in increasing their PageRank. They find a site that doesn’t delete comment spam and fill it with links. Then they boost the PR of that site by spamming it in blog comments. Once the spam-friendly’s site has in increased Google ranking, all those spammed links in their comments will get a boost in rank as well."
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March 30, 2004
Modifing PHP Wiki Templates
Since it took a little bit to locate the 'logo' template in PHPWiki, I figured I would share what I did to add the logo you see here.
With your text editor open $wiki/themes/default/templates/top.tmpl and edit section you want to change. Even though you have a different theme running (like me MacOSX), PHPWiki always used the same 'default' templates.
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February 04, 2004
Movable Poster
Ok, a while back I said I was looking for a remote pusblishing tool for MT, well
this one kicks butt.
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January 13, 2004
CMS Reviews
I think this is fairly good review of web-based Content-Management Systems. I gave Wordpess a shot, but for the small size of this site MovableType seems to work well. Chris writes "In the past two days I.ve installed over a dozen different .Content Management Systems. looking for my .ideal. CMS: it would need to be standards-complaint (preferably XHTML 1.0), it would need to include an easy-to-use template engine, it would need to have a news posting system (of course), it would need to have .static page. management (like through articles), it would need to use PHP/MySQL, it would need to have an active support community, and if it had a poll, a gallery, statistics, and a link directory available/integrated, that would be a plus. In short, I don.t need much in terms of user-end features, but quite a bit in terms of the core operation of the CMS."
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January 12, 2004
How to make a quick links weblog in Movable Type
Thanks Mark, nice article.
How to make a quick links weblog in Movable Type: markpasc.org
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January 07, 2004
Adding a Categories Section to MT
1.) Go to Weblog/Config/Preferences/Archives
2.) Check 'Archive Category Type'.
3.) In the Main Index, create a container where you want the categories to appear (for instance div="side")
4.) Enter this code. I've left off the brackets
MTCategories>
a href="$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>">$MTCategoryLabel$>/a>br>
MTEntries>
$MTEntryTitle$> br>
/MTEntries>
/MTCategories>
You don't need to use MTEntryTitle if you prefer not.
5.) If you want to set up categories before creating posts for those categories
add show_empty="1" after the first MTCategories tag.
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December 24, 2003
TikiText v0.50
Ok, this seems cool enough, an MT plugin that allows me to do Wiki markup.
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December 23, 2003
Developing 'Movable Type' Plug-ins
Here's a damn good article on creating your own MT plugins. Thanks to Timothy Appnel!
"In this article I will cover the MT plugin framework, its complete API, and the basics of hooking into the core systems operation and its data persistence service. It's assumed that you're somewhat knowledgeable with Perl and familiar with its OO style. (See Simon Cozens' article on Object-Oriented Perl for a quick primer.) With the richness of Perl and the MT system, a whole book could be written on the subject. We'll just cover the basics in this whirlwind tour. "
View Full Article: Movable Type Plugins
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