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  • Movable Type Full Word Search

    Prior to its integration into Movable Type, the MT-Search module allowed the ability to toggle between full-word and partial-word searches. For instance, if you searched on full words for out, you would get out in the results. But not outdoors, outliner or even outrageous. Unfortunately, that functionality isn't…

  • Moron IP Banning

    Okay, so I'm a moron. While it was an entertaining exercise, yesterday's bit about using PHP to block IP addresses probably wasn't completely necessary. Yes, that's right – Movable Type has IP banning built right in. So I just add the IP address to the list, and the…

  • Combating Comment Spam

    Three times in the last week I received comment spam. If you happened across it while reading one of my entries, I apologize for not getting to it quickly enough. All traces of those comments should be gone, but if you notice more, please let me know about…

  • Old Archive Entries

    Not long ago, I updated the format for the names of links. This wasn't terribly complex, but it does raise the question of how to deal with all those "old" pages. For instance, I see an increasing number of people hitting my page on The Angler Fish (now…

  • Syndication Formats

    Now that you've designed your blog, should you syndicate it? Syndication, while it sounds somewhat intimidating, really means nothing more than making your site available in a slightly different format so that it can be processed and read more efficiently. In the most basic sense, a web page…

  • More on Forms

    As I was finishing up the initial release of the blog, I decided that I wanted to do something different with the "add a comment" function. While it was clear enough that you selected the "no" button to keep from saving your personal information, the information was removed…

  • Forms in XHTML 1.1

    If you're looking for XHTML 1.1 compatibility, then only minor changes are needed to your default Movable Type templates. I had the most difficulty with the comments form on the individual entry archive….