{"id":655,"date":"2002-08-29T03:37:35","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/29\/cool-tricks-with-movabletype\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:10:00","slug":"cool-tricks-with-movabletype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/29\/cool-tricks-with-movabletype\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool tricks with MovableType"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15947,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jacobsen.no\\\/anders\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2002\\\/08\\\/06\\\/my_movable_type_installation.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314020527\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.jacobsen.no\\\/anders\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2002\\\/08\\\/06\\\/my_movable_type_installation.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15948,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/diveintomark.org\\\/archives\\\/2002\\\/08\\\/06.html#fullscreen_calendars_in_movable_type&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13975,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scriptygoddess.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228081533\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.scriptygoddess.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:30:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 08:15:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 08:15:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14100,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scriptygoddess.com\\\/archives\\\/001253.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130308171732\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.scriptygoddess.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001253.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:409}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:409},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to toss this up really quickly before I crashed out tonight &#8212; over the course of the evening, I&#8217;ve tossed in a few very cool tweaks to my blog setup.<\/p>\n<p>First off, the month-by-month archive listings (listed beneath the calendar on the right under the heading &#8216;Monthly Archives&#8217;) now display as a full calendar, with links to the individual posts displayed on the day they were posted. Just a nicer visual presentation than one long page for each month, as I had before. (Suggestion from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/my_movable_type_installation.html\" title=\"Andersja's blog: My MovableType installation\">andersja<\/a>, code from <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/06.html#fullscreen_calendars_in_movable_type\" title=\"Dive into Mark: Full screen calendars in Movable Type\">Dive into Mark<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The second tweak I&#8217;m all sorts of impressed by. There was a great little script posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptygoddess.com\/\" title=\"ScriptyGoddess\">ScriptyGoddess<\/a> that allowed me to implement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptygoddess.com\/archives\/001253.php\" title=\"ScriptyGoddess: Scripts: Preview Comments Live\">live comment previewing<\/a>. Basically, this creates a preview area where you can see what your comment will look like <em>as you type it<\/em>. It renders HTML as it&#8217;s typed too, so if you like to use any code in your comments, that will show in the preview too! Really, really nifty &#8212; and easier to see for yourself than for me to try to describe. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll figure it out easily enough once you see it in action.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for tonight&#8230;bedime for Bonzo now, tomorrow&#8217;s my really late night at work. Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to toss this up really quickly before I crashed out tonight &#8212; over the course of the evening, I&#8217;ve tossed in a few very cool tweaks to my blog setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}