Plugins
Widget Manager Hack #1 - Inserting WidgetManager tags
Brad shared with me this cool Widget Manager hack that surfaces a drop down menu in the template editing interface allowing developers to easily insert the template tags necessary to insert a collection of widgets into their blog. Of course...
Packaging a Movable Type plugin with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
While you're just screwing around, it's easy to package a Movable Type plugin by zipping up the directory. However, as you write more advanced plugins with more moving parts, you'll start to have supporting files in your work directory. Hopefully...
On Promises
I saw a chunk of code today that made my eyes pop out because of its lack of promise. Well, not its lack of promise, but its absence of MT::Promise. The MT::Promise class, new in Movable Type 3.0, solves a...
Dynamic Publishing: PHP Architecture Overview
An overview of the architecture behind the new PHP dynamic publishing feature in Movable Type 3.1.
Developing Movable Type Interface Plugins With BigPAPI
Professional Network member Kevin Shay wrote the following tutorial to introduce the community to his exciting new plugin and its development potential. The BigPAPI plugin for Movable Type allows you to create plugins that can easily add features to Movable...
Building on Movable Type Part 3: Creating Pagination Controls
In last week’s installment of “Building on MovableType," I described how to reuse the display options widget for the storage of your own user preferences. While Movable Type uses this mechanism for display preferences (i.e. the number of items to...
Building on Movable Type Part 2: Re-using the Display Options Widget
In the first article of the “Building On Movable Type" series, we discussed a very simple thing you can do to make your plugin easier to use and seem more integrated with the Movable Type application; and that is to...
Building on Movable Type Part 1: A Look Inside Media Manager
When people hear the words “Movable Type" more often than not they think about blogging. This is, of course, absolutely correct, because in its heart Movable Type is first and foremost blogging software. But at its core, Movable Type is...
