Blog description
This setting defines your weblog description. It is displayed underneath your Blog Name on the Movable Type Main Menu and is output by the MTBlogDescription template tag.
Blog name
This setting defines the name of your weblog and the output of the MTBlogName template tag. This name will be used for display within the Movable Type system itself, and it will also be sent to any recently updated services you have specified on the weblog's New Entry Default settings screen.
This is a required field.
Blog timezone
The weblog's official timezone. It should be the timezone where you or the majority of the weblog's authors are located as opposed to the timezone where your server is located, if your server is located in a different timezone.
This is a required field.
Comment order
This setting controls which order entries are printed out by the MTComments tag when no sort_order attribute is included with the tag. Ascending is the default and places oldest comments at the top of the display.
This is a required field.
Creative commons license
Here you can select a Creative Commons License to apply to the contents of your weblog. If you select a license, the index page of your weblog will automatically be updated to include information about the license you have chosen, and the same metadata will be added to your weblog feeds in machine-readable format.
Keep in mind: Once you publish your work under a Creative Commons license, and someone accepts the terms you've offered, you can't revoke the license. You can always take your work down if you change your mind, of course, or specify that future entries in your blog are available under some new licensing terms or full copyright protection, whatever the case may be. For more information about the details of Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/fullrights.
Date language
This setting controls the language used for date and time display on your weblog; specifically, this influences the month and week names, and the AM/PM specifiers.
Entries to display
This setting controls how many entries are displayed by the MTEntries tag when no other attributes are included with the tag. You can choose either a specific number of entries or a time frame. The latter will display all entries with an Entry Date within that window.
This is a required field.
Note that the days option means consecutive days and not the last N days on which you posted an entry. A "day" is defined as the time from 24 hours ago to now, where "now" is the time when the page is rebuilt or compiled dynamically.
As an example, if you are including 1 day on your index and you posted an entry one day at 6 PM, that entry will show up in any rebuild of that template until the next day at 5:59 PM.
Entry order
This setting controls which order entries are printed out by the MTEntries tag when no sort_order attribute is included with the tag. Descending is the default and places newer entries at the top of the display.
This is a required field.
Excerpt length
When you use the MTEntryExcerpt tag in your templates and you have not defined an excerpt for your entry, one is auto-generated for you by the system using the first words of your entry body after applying the entry's specified text formatting filter and removing all HTML.
Using this setting, you may specify how many words are included in that auto-generated excerpt. The default is 40.
This setting does not apply if you have specified an excerpt for your entry.
Important: Please note that for historical reasons, this setting also does not apply to the output of the MTEntryExcerpt tag in the search results template. To control that setting, you must use the ExcerptWords configuration directive.
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Google API key
If you wish to use any of the Google API functionality (listing Google search results on your site using MTGoogleSearch, for example), you will need to sign up for a Google API key, then paste your API key into this field. Your key will be sent to Google's servers whenever you use Google API functionality.
Limit HTML tags
This setting allows you to control the operation of Movable Type's sanitize function for the weblog in question. See GlobalSanitizeSpec for more details.
You can choose to use the default (defined by either the GlobalSanitizeSpec configuration directive or by Movable Type's built-in default), which is shown on this screen, or specify your own setting.
Default value:
a href,b,i,br/,p,strong,em,ul,ol,li,blockquote,pre
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