Archive for the 'movable type' Category

One stop hardening shop

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Turning a link to some fixes and instructions for Movable Type comments into a pro-open-source rant, in five easy paragraphs.

Throttling down

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

A wee change to the MT 2.661 throttle, taking it from a simple throttle for simple spammers, to a harsher throttle that’s been burned by proxies before, and doesn’t want to be burned again.

URLs including zipcode are prohibited

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

Putting an end to zipcode comment spam.

MT rebuild type mod

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

Not for the faint of heart: hack MT to offer more flexibility than just “rebuild this template” or “don’t rebuild this template”.

Again with the relative URLs

Thursday, April 3rd, 2003

Scott Andrew needs his relative URLs expanded in his RSS, and Alexei Kosut has the plugin to do it.

Helping IE6 stumble through comment popups

Friday, February 21st, 2003

How to make IE6 show comments in the MT 2.6 popup template, possibly at the expense of IE5.5.

Me Want!

Wednesday, February 19th, 2003

The threaded comments I’ve always wanted, handed to me on a platter.

Fresh as a daisy

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

I did notice a couple of new files in the MT 2.6 upgrade, but then I got distracted…

PingTimeout 60?

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Slow responses from weblogs.com aren’t just a MT 2.6 problem: Simon says Radio takes over 30 seconds too.

Rolling your own CDATA

Saturday, February 15th, 2003

With MT 2.6’s new encode_xml, if you build an RSS feed with multiple tags in a single element, you need to do your own escaping in your template, and to make that safe, you need one trivial plugin.