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Movable Type is finally free as in Speech. In the podcast and recording below we shared the news with our ProNet community and talked about the upcoming beta of Movable Type 4.1.
My church has requested the creation of an online directory that is password protected. Our congregation has roughly 200 members. I would love to turn the online directory into more of a social networking thing for our congregation where members can post information about their lives (and I'm not sure what else, I would love to hear some more thinking on the possibilities). Our paper directory is divided by family with contact information and information about each individual family member (name, birthday, email, hobbies, etc.). The online directory would at least have to function as well as the paper directory.
Some of the (starting) questions that I'm getting stuck on are:
- Is this something that can be (should be) done with regular MT or should we look into Enterprise? (Is this something that should be done with MT at all?)
- What kind of budget should I ask for to do this?
- What are the possibilities for something like this?
- Is this too ambitious? I mean, we're only a congregation of 200 (on a good day). Is this just too much?
- I'm sure I'm missing thinking about something else, please chime in and let me know.
In last week's bi-weekly pronet conference call I gave a quick update on what was happening in MT-land and then sat down with David Recordon to talk about his work on the Open Social Graph.
I know this is kind of weird to post this here on Vox, but I didn't see this posted anywhere else and it wasn't exactly obvious for me to figure out. So, I hope this helps someone else.
Ok, so you just upgraded your Movable Type blog to MT4. You were using pretty much default MT3.x templates (especially the comments code). You're happy with how you blog looks and aren't really interested in overhauling your templates, but you would really like to make use of the new MT4 commenting features. Here's how I did it:
Create a New Blog for parts*
- put it somewhere like yoursite.com/test/ -- do not build it over your old blog
- really, you don't even need to publish it and you can delete it later
- below when I tell you to "Create template X" you will go to this blog to copy that template
Add Captcha Info to mt-config.cgi
- Add the following line (modified with your info):
- CaptchaSourceImageBase [absolute path to]/mt-static/images/captcha-source
- Example: CaptchaSourceImageBase /home/melody/www/www/mt-static/images/captcha-source
Change Blog Settings
- Your (old) Blog > Blog Settings > Comments > CAPTCHA Provider > Movable Type default > Save Changes
- Your (old) Blog > Blog Settings > Registration > [check boxes & save]
Create Index Template
- JavaScript
Create Template Modules
- Comment Detail
- Comment Form
- Comments
On Individual Entry Archive Template:
Remove from Head
- <script type="text/javascript" src="<$MTBlogURL$>mt-site.js"></script>
Add to Head
- <script type="text/javascript" src="<$MTLink template="javascript"$>"></script>
Remove from Body
- [all commenting code from <MTIfCommentsActive> to </MTIfCommentsActive>]
Add to Body (in place of above code)
- <$MTInclude module="Comments"$>
Save & Publish
*I know you can "Refresh Templates" but I think it much cleaner to
harvest parts, especially if you only want to update the comments.
