Plugin Directory

OutOfContext

2010-09-20T19:18:16Z

Plugin: OutOfContext
Author: mattcarey

OutOfContext adds a block template tag to take a block of template code out of the context of current template. This means that context sensitive tags can be built with a fresh context.

Google Translate

2010-03-25T10:57:51Z

Plugin: Google Translate
Author: MikeRT

Adds a template tag modifier that allows a user to pass the contents of a tag to Google Translate to translate the content transparently into any language that Google Translate supports.

True Comment Number

2010-02-03T16:07:38Z

Plugin: True Comment Number
Author: seangleeson

The True Comment Number plugin adds a new Template Tag, to Movable Type. This tag can replace the tag in the context of comment pagination. is a good tag for numbering your comments in a list. It starts with "1" and keeps adding 1 for each comment. But the problem with is, it starts with "1" even when it should be starting from a higher number. Say you clicked on the "newer comments" link to see comments 51 - 100, then you would think the first comment would be numbered "51." But would number it "1," because it does not take the offset (i.e., the 50 comments being skipped) into consideration. That's where comes in. If you are looking at comments 51 - 100, it will start at "51." If you are looking at comments 2801-3000, it will start at "2801." It will always give you the true order number of the comment.

NOTE: THIS PLUGIN IS COMPATIBLE WITH MT5! I don't know if it works in any other version. The "compatibility" choices in the plugin submission menu don't even include 5.0 as an option, so that's why I checked "4.2," but it's really an MT5 plugin.

Comment Author Context

2009-04-21T20:06:20Z

Plugin: Comment Author Context
Author: brad

Overview

In the context of a comment, all <$mt:AuthorSOMETHING$> function tags refer to the author of the entry or page where the comments were left. This default behavior in Movable Type (as of MT4.25) creates a situation where it is never possible to output author data for a commenter.

Description

The CommentAuthorContext plugin creates a block tag called <mt:CommentAuthorContext> in which <$mt:AuthorSOMETHING$> function tags will refer to the author of the comment.

Usage

Create a "user" CustomField. We'll use <$mt:AuthorDataTwitter$> for this example.
Place the <mt:CommentAuthorContext> block tag inside the <mt:Comments> tag block (typically in the entry or page detail template).
Place your "user" CustomFields inside the <mt:CommentAuthorContext> tag block.

Final code might look something like this:

<mt:Comments>
    <mt:CommentAuthorContext>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/<$mt:AuthorDataTwitter$>/"><$mt:AuthorDataTwitter$></a>
    <mt:Else>
        I'm an anonymous commenter
    </mt:CommentAuthorContext>
</mt:Comments>

FastTagCloud

2008-12-11T03:23:12Z

Plugin: FastTagCloud
Author: mixeladm

FastTagCloud (FTC) provides 5 tag helpers, to create a really Fast Tag Cloud, compared with the default Tag Cloud widget.

<mt:ftc> ... </mt:ftc>

Inside this block, you use the other templates tags. It have three attributes:

maxrank: the max rank to use. 6 by default .
limit:Upper limit in the tag list to show. 20 by default.
order: the order of the tags, it can be "rank" or "alpha". alpha is the default.

<mt:ftcrank> The rank of the Tag.

<mt:ftcname> The name of the Tag

<mt:ftclink> The search link of the tag.

<mt:ftccount> The count of objects with the tag.

Hybrid Pagination

2008-12-11T01:33:55Z

Plugin: Hybrid Pagination
Author: brad

A plugin that provides support for paginating a MT template module. It relies on MT's dynamic publishing feature, but does not require the first page itself to be published dynamically.

Batch Template Options

2008-10-31T21:33:33Z

Plugin: Batch Template Options
Author: byrnereese

This plugin provides the simple utility of being able to set the publishing method for more than one template at a time directly from the template listing screen.

Gravatar

2008-09-20T12:57:02Z

Plugin: Gravatar
Author: scottboms

Uses Gravatar's global recognized avatar system to output the correct gravatar image URL based on the commenters email address.

This is an updated version of Tom Werner's original plugin and includes changes to the generated URL structure required to interact with the Gravatar service along with adding support for Movable Type 4.x.

EntrySetBasename

2008-09-11T08:00:41Z

Plugin: EntrySetBasename
Author: brad

ABSTRACT

This is a utility plugin to assist in setting entry basenames to the value of the dirified entry title.

WARNING: Using the <$mt:EntrySetBasename$> tag will cause Entry basenames to be changed in the blogs database. This plugin and the tag is provides is meant to be used once to set basenames and then it should be removed.

HISTORY

In MT4.2 the dirify function was updated to not remove dashes. If the phrase to dirify was:

Foo-Bar Baz

Dirify in MT4.1 would produce:

foobar_baz

Dirify in MT4.2 would produce:

foo-bar_baz

This change to the dirify function has affected urls of blogs which use a dirified entry title in the archive map, such as in this example:

archives/<$mt:EntryTitle dirify="1"$>.html

Though MT tags can be used to create archive mappings, because there is a specific tag for doing this, it is kind of a hack… albeit a popular one!

This was most-commonly used to overcome the 100 character default limit (which can be increased to 250 in Entry Settings) but could have also been lack of knowledge of how the <$mt:EntryBasename$> works.

Though MT tags can be used to create archive mappings, the entry basename was meant to be used when creating urls to the entry because the basename is created to be unique among all entries and never changes once the entry is published. A dirified entry title will change if the title of the entry changes or… if the dirify function changes. So ideally basename should be used when creating archive mappings.

how entry basename is created when creating an entry

There are a few limitations with basename, but since :

it must be 250 characters or less
it is limited to letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores

SOLUTION

The basic solution is to populate past basenames with previously dirified entry titles.

By hand this could be difficult—but thanks to Mr. Brad Choate—there is a super simple utility plugin to help!

WARNING: But please be warned, using the <$mt:EntrySetBasename$> tag will cause Entry basenames to be changed in the blogs database. This plugin and the tag is provides is meant to be used once to set basenames and then it should be removed.

As always when performing massive changes to data, create a backup in the case that you need to revert.

Install EntrySetBasename plugin.

$MT_HOME/
    plugins/
        EntrySetBasename

Set basename length to 250 (or desired length) in Preferences > Entry Settings

Update archive mappings to use basename. Thus this mapping:

archives/<$mt:EntryTitle dirify="1"$>.html

would become:

archives/<$mt:EntryBasename$>.html

Create an index template named “Dirify” and paste the following code:

<ul>
    <$mt:setvar name="first_entry_id_in_4_2" value="12345"$>
    <mt:Entries lastn="99999">
        <$mt:EntryID setvar="entry_id"$>
        <mt:if name="entry_id" lt="$first_entry_id_in_4_2">
            <$mt:EntryTitle dirify="1" setvar="new_dirified_title"$>
            <$mt:EntryTitle regex_replace="/-/g","" dirify="1" setvar="old_dirified_title"$>
            <mt:if name="new_dirified_title" ne="$old_dirified_title">
                <li>
                    <$mt:EntrySetBasename value="$old_dirified_title" test="1"$>
                </li>
            </mt:if>
        </mt:if>
    </mt:Entries>
</ul>

This code will output a page listing the entries in your blog if the entry id is less than the id of the first entry created in MT4.2 and if the title dirified previous to MT4.2 and dirified in MT4.2 are not the same. For each matching entry the basename will be set to the value specified on the mt:EntrySetBasename tag, if the test attribute is not set to 1.

If you have created posts since upgrading to MT4.2, find the id of the first post created in MT4.2 and enter the id number as the value for the variable “firstentryidin4_2”.
If you have more than 99999 entries, update the lastn value of the <$mt:Entries$> loop to be higher than the number of entries you have in your blog.
Save the “Dirify” index template with the code above and modifications in the last two steps and publish it. Because the EntrySetBasename tag has a test attribute set to 1, no basenames will be rewritten.
Review the published output from the Dirify index template to review the changes that will be made. They will look similar to this:
- Entry #1921, ‘NY-Times Shocker’ basename set to ‘nytimes_shocker’
If you’d like to have more testing data (and a link to directly edit the entry) add these lines before the <$mt:EntrySetBasename$> tag inside the HTML list item (placing after the tag will effect output of the <$mt:EntryBasename$> tag):
```
EntryBasename: <$mt:EntryBasename$> 
EntryTitle: <$mt:EntryTitle$> 
new_dirified_title: <$mt:Var name="new_dirified_title"$> 
old_dirified_title: <$mt:Var name="old_dirified_title"$> 
<a href="<$mt:AdminScript$>?__mode=view&amp;_type=entry&amp;id=<$mt:EntryID$>">Edit Entry</a> 
```
Once you are ready to set all the basenames to the pre-MT4.2 dirified title, remove the “test” argument from the mt:EntrySetBasename tag and republish the Dirify index template. So that
```
<$mt:EntrySetBasename value="$old_dirified_title" test="1"$>
```
becomes:
```
<$mt:EntrySetBasename value="$old_dirified_title"$>
```
Uninstall the plugin and delete the Dirify index template.
Republish your Blog.

Versions

Version 1.0 - Initial Release - Tag code by Brad Choate. Documented and tested by Beau Smith.

WidgetSetLoop

2008-08-31T14:38:08Z

Plugin: WidgetSetLoop
Author: hfujimoto

This plugin adds template tag <mt:WidgetSetLoop>. This plugin is according to the proposal on the public wiki.

This plugin adds the ability to loop over all of the widgets in a widget set. By so doing, designers can more easily style each widget independently from one another.

Templets

2008-08-20T17:48:16Z

Plugin: Templets
Author: ogawa

Templets plugin realizes "pluggable template sets" called "templet", and allows you to install and manange new templates very straightforwardly and flexibly. It makes it easy:

For users to customize their base template sets by plugging in various kinds of templets, such as iPhone/cellphone templet, widget template library templet, and ActionStreams templet if available.
For template designers to package and distribute their own templates.
For plugin developers to package and distribute sample templates that use newly implemented template tags, into their plugins.

Until now, installing and updating templates have been a bothersome task with a lot of cut-and-paste. But from now, Templets provides a "turn-key" solution to install any templates into your blogs.

Order

2008-07-30T19:45:24Z

Plugin: Order
Author: markpasc

Collect sets of template output to order by particular data.

Custom Asset Markup

2008-06-23T21:06:39Z

Plugin: Custom Asset Markup
Author: jallen

The Custom Asset Markup plugin was created to address the issue in Movable Type 4+ where assets embedded into entries are wrapped with HTML markup that is hard coded into MT::Asset and MT::Asset::Image. Having markup hard-coded into the templates presents a number of problems:

The markup is not customizable by designers who wish to control the look and feel of embedded assets
The markup contains inline CSS styles which, by definition, cannot be overridden by user-developed CSS
The markup has been found to be incompatible with a small number of environments, particularly those in tightly controlled corporate Intranets.

This plugin provides administrators with a way to easily and arbitrarily customize the inserted markup via the template system.

Compatible with MT 4.1 and 4.2

Lixtal

2008-06-19T11:26:37Z

Plugin: Lixtal
Author: ocwo92

This plug-in is mostly of interest to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish authors.

Lixtal calculates the readability index of your entry, the so-called "LIX-tal," which is a simple measure of the complexity of your text. As the Lixtal increases, the text will appear harder to read.

You can use to plug-in to get an indication of how well your written communication corresponds to your target audience. Note that the metric makes sense only for the Scandinavian languages.

TTFpj TrueTypeFonts 1.2.1 for Movable Type

2008-06-04T16:21:27Z

Plugin: TTFpj TrueTypeFonts 1.2.1 for Movable Type
Author: mt.spagdesign

It is a Movable Type plugin which replace labels with True Type Fonts. Good for SEO. Nice looking fonts on your blog. Create banners,labels on fly.