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October 7, 2006

Fast Search v1.5 - Several New Features

Fast Search is a PHP plugin for Movable Type. This means that Fast Search uses Movable Type's dynamic PHP-based publishing system to display search results. However, you can continue to use static publishing for all of your indexes and archives....

November 14, 2006

Publishing Buttons

Publishing Buttons simply provides one-click publishing or saving of your entry. It's for people like me, who are just too lazy to click the dropdown box to change the status....

November 28, 2006

Smilies 1.02

A minor--but necessary--update.

December 11, 2006

MT Plugin Network v1.0

MT Plugin Network is a plugin for Movable Type that provides links to the latest plugins and tools, from within the MT administration interface:

MT Plugin Network is collaborative effort by a growing list of plugin developers. When plugin developers release new or updated plugins or tools, they will be added to list of recent MT Plugins and Tools. This way you can quickly and easily stay on top of the latest plugins for Movable Type.

Requirements

  • MT 3.3+

Download

Click here to download MT Plugin Network v1.0

Instructions

Unzip the PluginNetwork.zip file and upload the contents to your plugins directory within your Movable Type installation (often /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/). After uploading, MT Plugin Network is installed.

Are you a plugin developer? If you would like to join the MT Plugin Network and include your plugin announcements in the "MT Plugins and Tools" box, please send an email to plugins at mtpluginnetwork.com.

December 19, 2006

Spam Firewall v1.0 - Reduce the MT Spam Load

Spam Firewall is a plugin for Movable Type that can help reduce CPU load. The goal of Spam Firewall is to block 80% of spam attempts before they reach MT's comment and trackback scripts. As the name suggests, it acts like a firewall protecting your MT scripts.

January 17, 2007

Entry Post - Posting to MT via an External Form

Entry Post is a plugin for Movable Type that enables visitors to your site to submit entries using a form. Visitors do not need a user account and they do not need to login. Similar to posting a comment, they...

February 1, 2007

Icon-o-matic 2.09

Some fresh herbs help an old favorite stand out.

February 2, 2007

Ajax Rating Plugin to Rate Entries and More

Ajax Rating is a plugin for Movable Type that enables visitors to rate your entries or your blog. Try it now by rating this blog: The "Pro" version of Ajax Rating lets you rate comments, trackbacks, categories, authors, tags, and...

February 19, 2007

Close Comments with Blog Janitor

Blog Janitor is a plugin for Movable Type that preforms various clean-up tasks. In version 1.0, Blog Janitor can perform the following tasks: Close comments on old entries. Delete duplicate comments and trackbacks Blog Janitor does his work automatically, you...

February 21, 2007

Spam Firewall v1.2

Spam Firewall v1.2 is now available. Version 1.2 has two changes:

  • An updated "top 40" list of firewall rules
  • A bug fix that should address the "blank page" problem that some people experienced from time-to-time. If you still have this problem with version 1.2, please let me know.

Movable Type NoHarvester plugin (v 1.0.3)

A popular way for comment spammers to get their job done is to automatically harvest comment forms and forward the...

February 22, 2007

Template Inheritance - Templates that Inherit code from other Templates

Template Inheritance is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to link templates together in a way that one template inherits its template code from another template. One example is when you have two or more blogs in your...

February 26, 2007

Comment Registration for Movable Type

Comment Registration is a plugin for Movable Type that enables readers to register an account on your site and login to post comments. Commenters register and login directly with your site, not via an external authentication service (this plugin does...

February 27, 2007

Movable Type AddComment plugin (v1.5)

This is a Movable Type plugin that allows adding comments right from Movable Type's backend. It adds a "Add A...

February 28, 2007

Wordometer

When writing an entry, I like to have an idea of how long it is. I often use the Entry Body as an article lead-in and try to keep it between 50 and 75 words, but when you start...

March 4, 2007

Movable Type NoHarvester plugin (v1.1)

New version 1.1 now supports forms generated with MTCommentFields. NoHarvester blocks all spam from zombie computers.

March 6, 2007

Fast Search 2.0 - Tag Search and More

Fast Search v2.0 has several new features.Tag Search. Fast Search now supports Tag Search (MT3.3+). Also known as a tag listing, Tag Search displays a list of entries with a specific tag. If you list tags in your entries, they are probably linked to a Tag Search. Fast Search v2.0 does the same thing, only faster. Better Relevance Ranking....

April 12, 2007

Movable Type AutoSave plugin (v1.3)

AutoSave now supports Safari too! Never lose your precious text anymore.

May 24, 2007

Movable Type AutoSave plugin (v1.3.1)

Now supports Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3 for developers). Never lose your precious text anymore.

May 28, 2007

Comment Registration v1.2 - Important Security Bug Fixed

Comment Registration is a plugin for Movable Type that enables readers to register an account on your site and login to post comments. Version 1.2 fixes a security bug in previous versions. If you are using previous versions, you should upgrade to version 1.2.

July 8, 2007

Entry Post 2.0 - Extra Fields and MT4 Support

Entry Post 2.0 includes support for extra fields and MT4. New template tags make it easier to display poster information on your site. Entry Post enables your visitors to submit entries via an external form...

August 14, 2007

Navigation Breadcrumbs for the MT4 User Interface

The Navigation Breadcrumbs plugin for Movable Type 4.0 (MT4) adds navigation "breadcrumbs" to administration interface. These are links at the top of each screen that helps show you where you are in the interface, and provides links to go up...

Hide Inactive MT4 Menu Items with Dynamic Menus

The Dynamic Menus plugin for Movable Type 4.0 (MT4) hides inactive menu items in the MT4 user interface. By default, MT4 will display all menu items, even if the user does not have the required permissions to access certain items....

August 15, 2007

Fast Search 2.1 - Support for MT4

Fast Search is a PHP plugin for Movable Type. This means that Fast Search uses Movable Type's dynamic PHP-based publishing system to display search results. However, you can continue to use static publishing for all of your indexes and archives....

August 21, 2007

Visitor Stats for MT4

Visitor Stats is a plugin for Movable Type 4.0 that displays visitor and page view statistics on your MT Dashboard. It looks like this: Visitor Stats also provides a "stats counter" tag (and widget) that you can place on your...

August 28, 2007

Easily Install Template Sets with Template Installer

Template Installer is a plugin for Movable Type that makes it easy to install new template sets for your blogs. Combined with Template Exporter plugin, this makes is very easy: For bloggers to share templates / widgets with others For...

Export Templates with Template Exporter

Designed to be used with the Template Installer plugin, Template Exporter is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to easily export your blog templates in a way that can be shared, distribute, or even sold to to others....

September 4, 2007

Customize MT4 Commenter Sign In Tenplates

The Customized Sign In Templates plugin enables MT4 sites to customize the commenter sign in and registration screens. MT4 include built-in support for commenter registration and login. By default, the screens where commenters login and register are system templates that...

September 12, 2007

Ajax Comments for MT4

Ajax Comments is a plugin for Movable Type 4 that enables your commenters to post comments using Ajax, without the page refreshing. Live Demo The best way to describe Ajax Comments is to show you. Try it out right now...

September 13, 2007

Add Comment Titles to MT4 Blogs

Comment Titles is a plugin for Movable Type that adds a "Title" field for comments. Commenters can (optionally) add a Title to their comment. Comment Titles can be viewed and edited from the admin interface. Screenshot Template Tags Comment Titles...

Use Your Own MT Login on Other MT Blogs

A new feature in MT4 enables users to login via OpenID. This makes it easy to login to comment on MT4 blogs: simply enter your OpenID URL and you are good to go. But what if you don't have an...

October 31, 2007

NoHarvester 1.2.1 - MT4

No harvester protects your blog from spam zombie computers. Now supports MT4!

NewEntryTemplate 1.3 - MT4

New Entry Template lets you define default values for the Title, Body and other fields of your entries. Now supports MT4!

November 4, 2007

Convert MT4 Entries to Pages

Entry To Page Converter is a plugin for Movable Type 4 that enables you to convert Entries into Pages. Pages are a new feature in MT4 that you can use to create pages that are not really 'entries'. In previous...

Customize MT4 Notification Emails

The Customized Email Templates plugin enables MT4 sites to customize email notification templates on per blog basis. Using the familiar MT4 template management screens, you can easily customize the emails that get sent out by the system. For example, you...

Add User Photos (Avatars) using User Profiles

User Profiles is a plugin for Movable Type 4 that extends the user profiles in MT4. Version 1.0 adds the ability to user profile images (sometimes called avatars) from within the MT4 interface: Profile images are just the first step...

November 7, 2007

Template Inheritance Pro 2.0 - Inherit All Templates for a Blog

Template Inheritance is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to link templates together in a way that one template inherits its template code from another template. One example is when you have two or more blogs in your...

November 13, 2007

Entry Post 2.5 - MT4 Authentication and More

Entry Post is a plugin for Movable Type that enables visitors to your site to submit entries using a form. Visitors do not need a user account and they do not need to login. Similar to posting a comment, they...

December 1, 2007

User Profiles 1.5 - Extended User Profiles and Profile Pages

User Profiles is a plugin for Movable Type 4 that extends the user profiles in MT4. Version 1.5 adds the ability for commenters to add user profile images (sometimes called avatars), which can be displayed when posting comments. Also new...

January 21, 2008

Faster MT Publishing with Cache Block

Cache Block is a plugin for Movable Type that can dramatically speed up publishing by caching blocks of built template code. Cache Block is very flexible, enabling you to cache an entire page, a small template snippet, a template module,...

January 22, 2008

Paginate Entries and Comments with Pagination Plugin

Pagination is plugin for Movable Type that enables you to paginate lists of entries. For example, at the bottom of your home page, you could add a "Next" link so your readers can go to "Page 2" and read previous...

January 24, 2008

Template Exporter v1.1 - Support for MT 4.1 Template Sets

Designed to be used with the Template Installer plugin, Template Exporter is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to easily export your blog templates in a way that can be shared, distribute, or even sold to to others....

January 25, 2008

Entry Post 2.6 - Multiple Categories, Pages, and 4.1

Entry Post 2.6 contains the following new features for use on MT4 and MT4.1:

  • Support for adding new entries to multiple categories
  • New "type" parameter enables you to create new "Pages" using entry post.
  • Support for use under MT 4.1
  • Entries can now be optionally set to "Unpublished (Review)" status (a 4.1 feature only)
  • Code refactoring for better performance
  • Support for the upcoming MT Forum plugin

January 29, 2008

Fast Search 2.2 - Support for MT 4.1 and New Features

New Features in Version 2.2

  • Support for MT 4.1 - A "division by zero" error that was caused by changes in 4.1 has been addressed.
  • New 'Type' Option - Optionally, you can now search only Pages or only Entries by specifiying the 'type' argument or URL paramater.
  • MT4+ Sort by Date Fix - Fixes an issue under MT4+ when changes to an entry's authored_on date were not reflected in the the sort order, when sorting by date.
  • Top Searches Stats and Widget - (Pro only) This new feature tracks your search stats, enabling the creation of "Top Searches" lists.
  • Tag Searches no Longer logged - Staring in version 2.2, "tag searches" will not longer be logged. Tag searches happen when someone clicks a linked tag name, so they are not real searches. This change removes log clutter and increases performance of tag search results.
  • Code Optimization - For better performance and memory utilization.

February 12, 2008

Wordpress Interface for Movable Type

WP Interface is a plugin for Movable Type that provides a user interface very similar to Wordpress.

February 24, 2008

Navigation Breadcrumbs v1.1 - Fix for MT 4.1

The Navigation Breadcrumbs plugin for Movable Type 4.1 adds navigation "breadcrumbs" to administration interface. These are links at the top of each screen that helps show you where you are in the interface, and provides links to go up one...

February 27, 2008

User Profiles 1.6 - Support for MT 4.1

User Profiles is a plugin for Movable Type 4.1 that extends the user profiles in MT. Version 1.6 adds support for MT 4.1. In the Pro version, extended profiles can be edited from the admin interface, or by commenters: New...

MT Forum - Integrated Forums for Movable Type

MT Forum is a forum plugin for Movable Type 4.1 . Using MT Forum you can add forums to existing MT blogs, or create new blogs that act as dedicated forums. MT Forum is completely integrated with Movable Type and supports...

April 24, 2008

Notify Replyee

This plugin allows automatically sending an email to the commenter being replied to ("replyee").

May 28, 2008

Copy!

Allows copying entries and templates.

June 13, 2008

Important Fast Search Security Update

A new version of the Fast Search plugin for Movable Type is available. The new version is a very important security update, and I recommend that all sites install the new version as soon as possible. The primary issue that...