NOTE: This documentation is for Movable Type 3.2. If you are using a newer version, please see the documentation for Movable type 3.3x or Movable Type Enterprise.
Table of Contents
01: Installation and Upgrade
- Introduction
- Choosing the Right Weblog Platform
- Finding Perl on your Server
- Installing Movable Type with FTP
- Installing Movable Type via the Command-Line
- Configuring the System
- Installing Movable Type on Windows
- Verifying System Requirements
- Initializing the System
- Installing Additional Language Support
- Upgrading Movable Type
- Upgrading your weblog's templates
- Importing Weblog Content
- Exporting your Weblog Entries
- Backup/restore your MySQL database
- Backup/restore your SQLite database
- Backup/restore your BerkeleyDB database
02: Getting Started
03: Templates and Layout
- Introduction
- Editing a Template
- Creating a Main Index
- Creating an Archive Template
- Creating a Master Archive Index
- Editing a Template using an External Editor
- Controlling the Naming of Archive Pages
- Creating an Alternate Archive Template
- Reusing Template Markup with Modules
- Displaying Weblog Data
- Displaying a Calendar Layout
- Publishing Content When a Conditional is False
- Applying a Global Filter to Tag Output
- Formatting a Date
04: Posting Entries
05: Categories
06: Publishing
07: Comments
- Introduction
- Setting Comment Policy
- Enabling an Entry for Comment
- Displaying Comments
- Creating a Comment Submission Form
- Handling Submission Errors
- Publishing Queued Comments
- Marking a Commenter as Trusted
- Banning A Commenter
- Configuring Junk Handling Settings
- Marking Comments as Junk
- Deleting Comments
- Changing the Comment Registration Service
- Limiting the HTML in Comments
08: TrackBack
- Introduction
- Configuring TrackBack functionality for the system
- Enabling an Entry for TrackBack Pings
- Pinging a Resource from an Entry
- Enabling Auto-Discovery of TrackBack Resources
- Displaying TrackBack Pings
- Viewing the Pings Sent From an Entry
- Sending a TrackBack automatically based on an entry's category
- Enabling a Category as a TrackBack repository
- Limiting the HTML in TrackBack Pings
09: Email
10: Search
11: Advanced Topics
- Introduction
- Monitoring System Activity
- Using Advanced Search and Replace Functions
- Adding a New Notification Service to Ping
- Creating a Sanitize Specification
- Running Movable Type with suexec or cgiwrap
- Running Movable Type With mod_perl
- Configuring A Windows Server To Run CGI Scripts
- Setting Up Scheduled Post Services
- Installing Plug-ins
- Developing with the Movable Type Perl API
- Integrating A Remote System with Movable Type
12: Getting Help
A: Template Tag Reference
Archive
Calendar
Category
Comment listing
- MTCommentAuthor
- MTCommentAuthorIdentity
- MTCommentAuthorLink
- MTCommentBody
- MTCommentDate
- MTCommentEmail
- MTCommentEntry
- MTCommentEntryID
- MTCommentFields
- MTCommentID
- MTCommentIP
- MTCommentOrderNumber
- MTComments
- MTCommentsFooter
- MTCommentsHeader
- MTCommentURL
- MTFeedbackScore
- MTIfCommentsAccepted
- MTIfCommentsActive
- MTIfAllowCommentHTML
- MTIfCommentsModerated
Comment preview
Commenter
Entry
- MTDateFooter
- MTDateHeader
- MTEntries
- MTEntriesFooter
- MTEntriesHeader
- MTEntryAtomID
- MTEntryAuthor
- MTEntryAuthorDisplayName
- MTEntryAuthorEmail
- MTEntryAuthorLink
- MTEntryAuthorNickname
- MTEntryAuthorURL
- MTEntryAuthorUsername
- MTEntryBasename
- MTEntryBody
- MTEntryCategory
- MTEntryCategories
- MTEntryCommentCount
- MTEntryDate
- MTEntryExcerpt
- MTEntryFlag
- MTEntryID
- MTEntryIfAllowComments
- MTEntryIfAllowPings
- MTEntryIfCommentsOpen
- MTEntryIfExtended
- MTEntryKeywords
- MTEntryLink
- MTEntryModifiedDate
- MTEntryMore
- MTEntryNext
- MTEntryPermalink
- MTEntryPrevious
- MTEntryStatus
- MTEntryTitle
- MTEntryTrackbackCount
- MTEntryTrackbackData
- MTEntryTrackbackID
- MTEntryTrackbackLink
Image
Search
Subcategory
System
TrackBack
TypeKey
Utility
Weblog
B: Global Filters
C: Date Formats
D: Configuration Directives
- Introduction
- CGIPath
- AdminCGIPath
- DataSource
- StaticWebPath
- TemplatePath
- MailTransfer
- SendMailPath
- SMTPServer
- NoTempFiles
- WeblogsPingURL
- BlogsPingURL
- TechnoratiPingURL
- MTPingURL
- CGIMaxUpload
- DBUmask
- HTMLUmask
- UploadUmask
- DirUmask
- HTMLPerms
- UploadPerms
- TempDir
- EntriesPerRebuild
- ImportPath
- UseNFSSafeLocking
- NoLocking
- NoHTMLEntities
- NoCDATA
- PingTimeout
- PingInterface
- PingProxy
- PingNoProxy
- ImageDriver
- NetPBMPath
- AdminScript
- CommentScript
- TrackbackScript
- SearchScript
- XMLRPCScript
- ViewScript
- AtomScript
- PublishCharset
- SafeMode
- GlobalSanitizeSpec
- GenerateTrackBackRSS
- ThrottleSeconds
- SearchTemplatePath
- DefaultTemplate
- AltTemplate
- ExcludeBlogs
- IncludeBlogs
- RegexSearch
- CaseSearch
- SearchCutoff
- CommentSearchCutoff
- MaxResults
- ResultDisplay
- SearchSortBy
- ExcerptWords
- SearchElement
- NoOverride
- EmailAddressMain
- LaunchBackgroundTasks
- RegKeyURL
- SignOnPublicKey
- CommentSessionTimeout
- EmailVerificationSecret
- AltTemplatePath
- CSSPath
- ObjectDriver
- Database
- DBUser
- DBPassword
- DBHost
- DBSocket
- DBPort
- DebugEmailAddress
- DefaultLanguage
- NewsboxURL
- OneHourMaxPings
- OneDayMaxPings
- PluginPath
- IdentityURL
- SignOffURL
- SignOnURL
- TimeOffset
- TransparentProxyIPs
- PublishCommenterIcon
- DebugMode
- NoPlacementCache
- NoPublishMeansDraft
- TypeKeyVersion
- EnableArchivePaths
- CookieDomain
- CookiePath
- EmailReplyTo
- UserSessionTimeout
- ShowIPInformation
- AllowComments
- AllowPings
- HelpURL
- PluginSwitch
- UsePlugins
- OutboundTrackbackLimit
- OutboundTrackbackDomains
- UpgradeScript
E: Archive File Path Specifiers
F: Import format
G: Context-sensitive help