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.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do you want to display gravatars on your single posts, just like we do here on Devlounge? Then you need a WordPress blog, access to your single.php file, and this quick tutorial to get it up there.
So you’ve got your site all set up, but it looks a bit static. How about rotating a header image, or any image really, using PHP? It’s actually quite easy to implement and maintain, if you do it right. Kevin shows how in this PHP tutorial.
Displaying related entries when reading a post is a good way to get the reader to dig deeper into your blog or site. Usually, you’ll do this by installing a plugin, but in Movable Type it’s actually possible without one, as this tutorial shows.