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WordPress Tip: Group Posts by Date in Listings

If you’re using WordPress, you can group your posts in listings using the_date tag. That’s a great way to put a little emphasis on how often you update, if you’re a frequent updater, and a way to avoid littering your posts listings with the same date over and over again.

Hide Table Rows with onChange()

Gerald Hanks shows us how to hide a line in a table, something that might come in handy in your design. The tool is a pretty simple JavaScript.

Enhance Search Results with Thumbnails

Looking to make your search results page a little more user-friendly? Let’s look at how we can improve Movable Type’s default search page with some images.

Make Your Blog More Evergreen with Movable Type

Timestamps are standard on blog posts, but over time they can make posts seem “past their prime” when they’re really not. Learn how to de-emphasize the age of your blog entries with Movable Type.

Keep a Featured Post at the Top of Your MT Blog

Not quite ready for your feature-length article to get pushed below the fold by more recent link posts? In this tutorial, learn how to keep a post “stuck” at the top of your Movable Type blog.

Transfering Data with Other Servers Using cURL

In this day and age, there are many ways to transfer data between servers. One of the fastest, most popular, and easiest method is using the cURL library with the ability to work in many protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WebDAV, and more. Let’s take a look at this, shall we?

Creating a Photo Gallery Using jQuery and the MT Asset Manager

The Movable Type Asset Manager is a great way to organize your blog photos, but it doesn’t include a way to show them off. In this tutorial, learn how to combine the Asset Manager with a JavaScript photo gallery to easily create a great-looking photos page for your blog.

CSS: Infoboxes and Pullquotes

Let’s add some more flair to our articles by using informational facts boxes, and pullquotes, to lighten up those mammoth articles. It’s all done using CSS and some floating, and unofficial follow-up to the previous post on the topic.

CSS: Fun With Floating in the Grid

Thord shares some of his tricks for employing the new Devlounge design, and making it flexible for future additions and changes. Let’s play with CSS floats and the grid.

Optimal Includes for Movable Type

There are ways to include files, and there are ways to include files, in Movable Type. The standard way certainly gets the job done, but it’s pretty slow when posting updates. Luckily, Billy knows the solution, and shares his template code with us in this tutorial.