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Enabling PHP on your server

By Merv on Dec 31, 2009

Hosting providers have different requirements to enable PHP on the servers you use. Our experience is: GoDaddy: Requires all Web pages containg PHP code have the .php file type. icdSoft:...

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Adding optional page layouts to MT 4+ themes

By Merv on Dec 29, 2009

There are instances when it is desired to have page layout options in the MT 4+ themes besides wtt, twt, tw, wt, mw and wm  (w=wide, t=thin, m=medium). A case...

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** Test title resulting in a URL with a leading dash

By Merv on Dec 27, 2009

We have detected a condition causing server 500 errors (not a good thing) when the entry title contains non-alpha/numeric leading characters.The Entry Title is used to create an entry URL...

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Movable Type: Run Periodic Tasks on GoDaddy Hosting

By Merv on Nov 26, 2009

We experienced an issue running periodic tasks on GoDaddy's servers. "Periodic Tasks" is a tool in the MT library that allows many functions to be run in the background such as publishing entries in the future (Write Entry => Publishing => Status => Scheduled).

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Testing Character Encoding from the MT database

By Merv on Nov 3, 2009

Real-estate Con-sult-ant: [rē′ əl, e stā′t, kən sult′nt] - pronoun The database encoding is set to utf8_general_ci and it appears it displays fine here.Significant Changes Coming: #4 ACRE® Advisory Board...

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Example of plugin data without the blog id

By Merv on Oct 14, 2009

Here's an example of the Hybrid News plugin data being stored in the data base without the blog id.The first entry is one in which the blog id was added...

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Making tweeks to get Hybrid News to work with MT 4.32

By Merv on Oct 11, 2009

Here are issues discovered with Hybrid News running under MT 4.32:The Bio author custom field is not registered properly by the plugin. Adding an Author Bio results in a MT...

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First test entry

By Merv on Oct 11, 2009

This is my first test entry of the Hybrid News on MT 4.32I had to manually fix the Plugin data in the data base because it is being stored by...

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