Category Archives: Movable Type

Welcome to Open Melody

November 9th, 2010

Movable Type at one time was at the top of the Blogging chain but has slowly been declining. There’s a new movement in the community to create a software with the original principals and ideals of Movable Type and to remove what’s been dragging it down with recent releases.

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Burn your RSS feeds with Google’s FeedBurner

March 24th, 2010

If you’re new to FeedBurner you should check it out! All blogs come with a special file called RSS or most commonly expanded as “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a web based feed used to publish blog entries, news headlines etc in a standardized format. In other words every time you write and publish a new blog post on your blog, it updates your RSS feed with the latest blog entry. Your blog visitors can then choose to subscribe to your feed with their web browser or email application such as Gmail or even specialized RSS Reader software such as Google Reader. After that every time you publish something on your blog they’ll receive a notification that there’s something new on your blog, without having to go to your blog every now and then wondering if it was updated.

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Movable Type or WordPress?

December 28th, 2009

Every other person I talk to asks the million dollar question — which blog platform do you recommend, WordPress or Movable Type? First of all it’s nearly impossible to describe and list the features of both applications in a single blog post. There are many books published on Movable Type and WordPress, and in the end it all comes down to personal preference, specific needs, the server you are on, and even budget. Before I go ahead and recommend one or the other let me briefly introduce you to both of them, and tell you what I think.

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User to Blog Association in Movable Type

November 25th, 2009

Today, while working with one of our corporate customers I was asked to provide a report that lists all their Movable Type 4 users and the blogs those users are associated with.

Unfortunately Movable Type 4 doesn’t provide any type of reporting functionality, especially in the form of CVS file that can be imported into Excel for further manipulation.

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