Utility Plugins

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This plugin assists authors, editors and administrators in making sure that all of the links on their blog are still valid and therefore useful to their readers. It works by surfacing a additional list action called "Validate Links" in your...


ITEMAN Dynamic Publishing allows you to create dynamic Web pages with normal publishing workflow. Since ITEMAN Dynamic Publishing is written in Perl, it can be used with any plug-ins. Features Create dynamic web pages Make publishing easier Can use any...

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MediaURLs is a free plugin for Movable Type 4.x that provides a few simple template tags that allow you to easily make use of multiple domains or subdomains to host media assets for your site such as css and javascript...


Bob the Rebuilder is a free utility plugin that uses run-periodic-tasks in order to continuously rebuild portions of one or more blogs in the background on a fixed schedule....

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Contact forms are one of the most common and oldest ways in which sites have provided their visitors with a way to contact them. They are preferable to many because using a form obviates the need to disclose an email...


With the introduction of the Affiliate Product Optimizer (APO), publishers gain the ability to understand their visitors' interests in real-time and display optimal, personalized product offers from affiliate networks. By truly listening to website visitors' words and actions, publishers can...

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A plugin that adds an export command to the action drop down on Manage Entries....

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Use the short code provided by SlideShare.net to embed presentations into your entries....

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Adds the ability to use a custom template module to control the insertion of assets into a post. It also offers a new field for entering a custom caption when inserting the asset....

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This plugin enables Access Ranking: tally up the accessed count. Additionally, you can sort entries by their accessed count....


The blog article is retrieved by category information....


The blog article is retrieved by text information on the custom fields....


It is a plugin to enable use with Movable Type as for HTML::FillInForm....


This plugin converts custom fields created by the RightFields plugin to Movable Type's native custom fields. It also provides an additional custom field type that RightFields provided: the linked entry. Installation Backup your Movable Type database. Unpack the LinkEntryCustomField's zip...


Enhance your site by allowing site visitors to send specific content pieces to their mobiles (e.g. your favorite posts, a list of events, your top tens, stuff for sale etc). Once you add the "Send to Mobile" Plugin, your site...

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The ITDR Embedder seamlessly integrates into the Rich Text Editor toolbar to allow a simple click-to-add workflow to embedding dynamic content to your posts. Obviously, you benefit, you will need to have one of our products such as BlogShow, or...


This plugin add LightBox to your blog by adding rel="ligthbox" automatically to your new image assets, and all the neccessary scripts to use LightBox....


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...

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Using this plugin, you can use useful rich text editor 'TinyMCE' in writing your entries. You can select edit buttons you want to use at settings of this plugin. ============ LICENSE MTOS: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 MT or...


Asset Gallery lets you easily create collections for your entries, such as photo galleries. Combining MT4's built-in asset manager with powerful custom fields capabilities, you simply upload your files using the familiar Movable Type interface and the plugin does the...

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The Log4MT plugin enhances Movable Type with the fantastic and ultra-powerful Log4Perl logging framework. Like Log4perl, Log4MT enables you to debug your code, handle exceptions or send notifications with exacting control. This plugin is a intended for use by Movable...


This plugin lets blog authors edit photos. Blog authors access the Photo editor via Movable Type's Asset Management screen. A fuller description of the plugin can be found at the plugin homepage....

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Ever need to copy an entry or template to a new one in your Movable Type blog? That usually involves having 2 windows (or tabs), and cut & pasting each of the fields you need. No more! This new plugin...

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Show time of building page of CMS....


Magnify Publisher is the first native blog application that enables bloggers to search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and also embed the desired content directly into a post without ever leaving the Movable Type dashboard....

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This plugin allows you to associate locations with blog entries using Google Maps. Each blog entry can have a location (latitude, longitude), and a map can be shown for the location. Also, a map can be shown which displays all...


This plugin allows you to associate locations with blog entries using Google Maps. Each blog entry can have a location (latitude, longitude), and a map can be shown for the location. Also, a map can be shown which displays all...

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A RSS/Atom feed reader that integrates into Movable Type. It provides three main features: 1) The ability to use MT as a feed reader. 2) A dialog that allows you to import other bloggers' feeds into an entry you are...


This plugin assists with migration from Arvind Satyanarayan's CustomFields to the version of CustomFields in the Commercial versions of Movable Type. Step-by-step guide can be found in the README file in this plugin....


Converts TeX formatting to fancy images. Great for mathematical formulas!...

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Cache Block is a plugin that can dramatically speed up publishing by caching blocks of built template code. Cache Block is very flexible, enabling you to cache an entire page, a small template snippet, a template module, a sidebar widget,...


If you want your multilingual, Unicode text to display in HTML reliably, across different browser encoding settings, MT-UnEntity is for you. It will make sure that your Unicode characters are not displayed as gibberish un-entities. ;) After installing MT-UnEntity, two...

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A command-line tool for publishing Movable Type templates. mt-rebuild is a tool which enabled you to publish MT content from the command-line rather the browser's web interface. This is particularly helpful when combined with cron to automatically update a part...

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A command-line tool for closing comments and TrackBack pings open for a specified period of time. mt-closure is a command-line tool for closing comments and TrackBack pings open for a specified period of time. Run regularly with a system utility...


Tidy for Movable Type keeps your template markup formatting uniform and more readable. Movable Type 4 introduced the support of case insensitive tag names that do away with nagging and generally silent publishing errors because the wrong case was used...


Temper (TEMPlate profilER) for Movable Type measures and logs system page building performance information for benchmark and diagnostic purposes. This plugin was designed to aid in pro-actively detecting and identify performance bottlenecks in a Movable Type system’s publishing. Temper does...

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Building out, testing and evaluating Movable Type is relatively useless without test data. Users typically generate this themselves, but even so, this does not give anyone and accurate sense of what your blog will look like with 1000 entires, pages...

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SodaHead provides an innovative platform for not only providing fun and interesting functionality for your blog, but also by providing a service that can help gather important demographic information about your readers and visitors. This plugin integrates smoothly with Soda Head by allowing you to construct a poll from within Soda Head and then publishing that poll to your blog - either by embedding it into a post, or in the sidebar of your blog.

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An easy way to announce blog posts via your Twitter account....

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This plugin removes entries and/or categories from cloned blog at cloning....

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Clean Sweep is a plugin that assists administrators in finding and fixing broken inbound links to their website. It was build to support two use cases: to help users get a clean start with their blog by allowing them to...


Upload video in a snap, directly from your blog editor into your post. It's as easy as uploading a picture into your blog post. Video posting on demand....


BloggerImporter is a plugin for Movable Type 4. This plugin can import content from Blogger to Movable Type. You don't need import file because this plugin uses Blogger's API. There were a few errors in version 0.1 caused by a...


This plugin enables you to sort categories and folders as you like. Usage: 1) Download zip file from http://www.h-fj.com/mtplugin/SortCatFld101.zip 2) Unzip downloaded file. 3) Upload unzipped folders to directory of Movable Type. 4) Log in to Movable Type. 5) Add...


MT-Dispatch is a Perl application and plugin for Movable Type that allows Movable Type to run under FastCGI with functional background tasks and optionally externally to the web server. It also runs periodic tasks like the publishing queue. The default...

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Do you schedule entries, or otherwise modify the Entry Date field? Do you sometimes forget a leading zero, for example, to create a valid, two-digit hour field? Hot Date is just what you need: drop-down time selectors in 12-hour format...


EnhancedEntryEditing makes editing and publishing entries in Movable Type much easier by implementing a A WYSIWYG Editor - EnhancedEntryEditing adds tinyMCE, one of the most powerful WYSIWYG editors available, to the Entry Body and Extended Entry fields so that you...


Better File Uploader is a plugin that replaces and improves upon the Movable Type file upload tool. Multiple file uploading and 1-click uploading put a focus on speed and efficiency Resize on Upload keeps all images sized appropriately Watermarking ensures...

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Random template modules Include plugin for Movable Type. It adds template tags as . load random template modules when rebuilding templates....

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MT Socialize is a simple, one-tag plugin to allow easy interface to Pierre Far's Socializer Service, allowing you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems.


NaughtyWordChars is a plugin to convert malformed characters (smart quotes, dashes, elipses) pasted in from Microsoft Word documents.

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Ever had a browser or computer crash, or closed a window by mistake while typing a blog entry? Or clicked a link by accident, and crossed your fingers while hitting the "back" button just to come back to a blanked-out...

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Feed Manager provides a framework for deploying new features to your weblog's feeds. It eliminates the need for users to parse through XML and edit their Movable Type template files in order to provide the richest syndicatable content to their...

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Fast Search is a PHP plugin that uses Movable Type's dynamic PHP-based publishing system to display search results. For many sites - especially ones with a large number of entries - Fast Search can provide faster searching with lower CPU...

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webSSearchy is a plugin which enables your visitors to easily search more related pages in the web space with a help of your own suggesting search queries, the AJAX technique, and Google, Yahoo Web Service API. This is a newly...

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Adds favicons to comments and trackbacks. Favicons are small site icons....

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Outputs some mint's (http://www.haveamint.com/) collected data on weblog menu....


Allows setting global or per-blog default content for entry text fields....


Movable Type already has entry previewing functionality built in but it is extremely restrictive. It only shows you three fields (title, entry body and extended entry) and you have no idea what it will look like on your weblog, amongst...

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This plug-in is used to the output location information (WGS84 lat/long) stored in the keywords field of each entry in many different formats.

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Adds a tag, MTKeywordVar, which allows you to store and retrieve values within your templates. Tag: Usage: Keyword: foo=bar;foo1=bar1; ---> bar ---> bar1...

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Tags.App is a plugin for enabling advanced search and display of tags in Movable Type. A tag is a keyword or term used to classify an item and make it discoverable in multiple ways. Tags.App builds upon the tagging engine...


MT Colorer is a Movable Type plugin for source code highlighting based on colorer library (http://colorer.sf.net). It provides code syntax highlighting for 90 programming languages include c, c++, perl, java, php, ruby, html, sql and etc....

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MT-Farsi, or as it is called in Persian, Farsi Saaz, is a plugin for Movable Type 3.2 (MT) to add some features to it in order to enhance its right to left functionality. Also introducing some language specific features like...


CustomFields, the aptly named plugin, brings custom fields to Movable Type's entries, authors and categories offering the ability to create text fields, multi-line textareas, drop down menus, radio buttons, url and date/time fields (complete with a pop up calendar). These...


InlineEditor brings to Movable Type a concept first introduced by Jay Allen of Six Apart at his SxSW 2004 panel. Through template tags, InlineEditor adds links to entries in your weblog which when clicked display the entry form inline -...

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Feeds.App is the Movable Type plugin for republishing RSS and Atom feeds in your weblogs.

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Workflow allows you to grant publishing permission to only the authors you choose (editors), while other authors (contributors) may only save entries as drafts. Once satisfied with their entries, contributors can transfer their entries to an editor who may then...

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The MT component of the reBlog project. A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically...

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QuickLink is a plugin which allows users to manage a set of words for which they would like links automatically generated....

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Lots of built-in MT tags, such as MTEntryPermalink or MTArchiveLink, always generate canonical URLs (e.g. http://www.domain.tld/blog/index.html). It is sometimes inconvenient because generated HTML files grow large and make hard to distinguish between internal links and external links. MTTruncateURL Plugin allows...


Adds new tag for extracting media links from blog entries and creating enclosures in RSS 2.0 feeds. <MTEntries lastn="15"> <item> ... <$MTEntryEnclosures$> </item> </MTEntries>...

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Have you ever tried to install a plugin on your Movable Type-powered site, only to not have it work, and be left wondering if a required Perl module is installed? Wonder no more. With MT-ModCheck, you can easily run a...

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An advanced Movable Type entry search engine powered by Plucene and the (original) MT-XSearch framework. This is our award winning entry in the Six Apart Plugin Developer's Contest in 2004. Plucene development has essentially stopped. This plugin is now deprecated...

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The built-in URL tags, such as MTEntryPermalink or MTArchiveLink create canonical URLs in the form of http://www.domain.com/blog/index.htm and http://www.domain.com/blog/archives/Photos.htm. Sometimes it is convenient to use relative URLs in the form of index.htm and archives/Photos.htm. This plugin contains tags and a...


An easy way to add javascript cookie functions to templates via tags instead of cutting and pasting. <MTJavaScriptGetCookie>...

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Keep a revision history of all the weblog entries you edit. Browse the revision history through "previous" and "next" links, too. Differences are highlighted with colors through css. <MTIfRevised>Revision: <$MTRevisionLink$></MTIfRevised>...


Turns off the default comment redirect in MT2.661 for the MTCommentAuthorLink tag. For selective redirecting: <$MTCommentAuthorLink redirect="1"$>...

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Grab your AdSense statistics from Google....

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Converts stray ampersands to entity references, useful for making sure your published pages are valid HTML/XML. <$MTBlogEntry encode_ampersands="1">...


This plugin will validate your web pages on the fly when published from Movable Type. A valid page will display a badge from the W3C. <MTW3CValidate> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;...

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Container tag that reduces the size of your HTML page by stripping out unneccessary white space, HTML comments, etc. <MTOptimizeHTML> <html> <head> ... ... </body> </html> </MTOptimizeHTML>...

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Converts dates to UNIX-style epoch timestamps. Useful in the ESF Syndication format. <MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S" convert_to_epoch="1">...

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Handle errors that occur during the building stage of your pages. <MTExceptionTry> <MTExceptionCatch> The following error occurred: <MTExceptionError> </MTExceptionCatch> ... </MTExceptionTry>...

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Aids in writing HTML forms. <MTForm script="mt-vote.cgi"> <MTFormSubmit text="Submit your vote"> </MTForm>...

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Provides code syntax highlighting and beautification for a variety of programming languages - including PHP, Java, Perl, Scheme and Flash ActionScript. <MTCodeBeautifier language="Perl"> # Perl code here print "Hello world!"; </MTCodeBeautifier>...

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Parameter tags for templates invoked dynamically by a CGI such as mt-search.cgi or mt-view.cgi. <MTCgiParams> <MTCgiParamName>: <MTCgiParamValue encode_html="1"><br /> </MTCgiParams>...

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Validates your templates/documents based on the w3 validator <MTValidate> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title><$MTBlogName$>: <$MTEntryTitle$></title> </head> <body> <h3 class="title"><$MTEntryTitle$></h3> <$MTEntryBody$> <a name="more"></a> <$MTEntryMore$> </body> </html> </MTValidate>...


Helps you create a validable site (as in "My site has valid XHTML according to W3C") even when your sloppy writting style and MT's line break conversion conspire against you. <$MTEntryBody validable="1"$>...

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Adds tag to set which hours you don't blog so that RSS feed readers know when to skip checking for updates. <$MTSkipHours hours="23-6"$>...

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For plugin authors; allows MT expressions to be supported in creation of new plugins. <MTFoo bar="[MTEntryBody encode_xml="1"]">...

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Clean up your comments by stripping JavaScript and PHP. Based on a LiveJournal code. <MTCleanHTMLComment> --comments tags here -- </MTCleanHTMLComment>...

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Allows users to halt or cancel building processes with customizable messages. <MTWarn> Building Entry: <MTEntryTitle> </MTWarn>...


Gives extended attributes to your MT tags (Blogs, Categories, Entries, and Authors) by use of a CSV file (editable in Excel). This allows you to pull data right out of your data files without needing to know MySQL or another...

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The MTSQL tag can use SELECT statements like MySQL and PHP statements can. <MTSQLEntries query="select entry_id from mt_entry where entry_title like '%Movable Type%'"> <a href="<MTEntryLink>"><MTEntryTitle></a><br /> </MTSQLEntries>...

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Shows results of recent searches. Used on my search results page. Updated to add several new tags, and .61 is a bugfix for December dates. <MTSearches> <a href='<$MTCGIPath$>/mt-search.cgi?search=<MTSearchValue>'> <MTSearchValue></a> on <MTSearchDate><br /> </MTSearches>...

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Uses regular expressions to accomplish replacement and other advanced text manipulation. <MTAddRegex>s|:-D|<img src="/images/smiley.gif" height="32" width="32">|g</MTAddRegex>...

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Allows MT tags to be processed inside of inside-of-MT fields. <MTCategoryDescription process_tags="1">...

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Use MT to do easy frequently used pieces of information like smilies or favorite links. <MTMacroDefine name="smile1" string=":-)"> <img src="http://kadyellebee.com/icon/smile.gif" height="15" width="15"></MTMacroDefine> <MTMacroDefine name="trk" string=":trk:"> <a href="http://theredkitchen.net" target="_blank">the <span style="color:#c30000;">red</span> kitchen</a> </MTMacroDefine>...