Zhu Xinquan's Blog

I found out that there was a spam in my Blog several days ago and I deleted it manually. The spam is created by MoableType's comment system. Although MovableType has great anti-spam features. It blocked most of them, but it seems that there are some exceptions. My site is very small though, the spam still came up. I can imagine the serious problem when the traffic of my site increases. so I made some change in my site's comment system.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 03:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Recently, I encounter a problem when I use the "preview" function when I publish my entries. I guess you may have suffered this bug with MovableType 3.2 if you are also a newbie of MovableType. The problem is when an entry is saved from the Preview screen; the entry basename may be incremented or, if the title was changed, altered to fit the new title. And the other pages such as category page and index page will automatically change to the new entry's permanent link.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 02:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The original archive template in MovableType 3.2 will list all the articles in block. Of course, I do not like showing my articles in such a chaos. Obviously, My Readers will suffer a lot as the total of my articles increase to a considerable number. So I search the Internet and try to find a way that displaying the articles more friendly. Well I find a yearly archives template is very similar to my demand, but what I prefer is list my articles all together separated by month not year.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 10:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Maybe there are many reasons that you want show the source code in your MT entries, such as HTML, C++, Perl etc. However, if you simply type that code in while writing the entry, the resulting page will not show the tags and code. So how do you display code in entries? There are several methods and currently my method is using code2HTML and design a CSS style for it.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 07:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have install many plugins in my blog since the site is built. And these plugins help me to extend my site's functionality perfectly. So thanks to all the talent plugin authors and I would like to list these plugins here to share with you. BTY, many of these plugins were originally installed for my web-based photo album.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 03:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

When I login in to movable type system today, I find a new feature for my blog is released. It is a new Google Toolbar button Movable Type template which came from Niall Kennedy's blog.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 09:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Since I installed the Movable Type on my laptop which runs Windows xp, I have suffered a lot from the windows file system permission settings. Here is some typical errors if you do not set the proper permission of your files in the "Intepub\wwwroot\" directory.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 04:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

MovableType is a very popular blog platform and having seen lots of publishing system, finally I choose this one.
It tooks me about 3 hours to install the Movable Type in my Windows xp machine while it just took me much fewer time in Linux. I'd like to record the steps for other's reference. It is also a good resource for myself if I need to rebuild the server.

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Posted by Zhu Xinquan at 09:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)