| How can you possibly choose the best | | | | notice Emily Robbins rants up Typepad's lack of |
| movabletype plugins? What is MT? First off | | | | pagination on a recent blog entry. She raises |
| Movabletype is server based blog software. In | | | | some very valid points with the MT support staff. |
| fact, I would say it is hands down easily the best | | | | Again I think this will be addressed by Sixapart |
| blog software available today - for a few | | | | quite soon.MT BlogrollMovalog has too many good |
| different reasons:Maximum SEO potential - My | | | | plugins to cover here but their Blogroll has long |
| entries normally appear well ranked in Google 48 | | | | been a favorite of the majority of MT users. A |
| hours after posting them. | | | | blogroll is an essential tool for building links with |
| Movabletype can be configured to spit raw .html | | | | other same themed sites as your own. MT |
| or non dynamic pages. | | | | Blogroll keeps track of a link's URL, name, |
| There is a free non-commercial version, although | | | | description, relationship, category and more.MT |
| I recommend buying a license if you use it even | | | | InlineEditorAnother Movalog plugin Inline Editor |
| casually. | | | | allows you to edit your comments and entries via |
| Install, usage, and maintenance are all very well | | | | cool Ajax code. Ajax is that nifty new technology |
| documented and easy for even a novice user. | | | | that allows you to talk back to the webserver |
| The application itself is extremely portable: | | | | without reloading the page. Catching typos is no |
| mySQL, Postgres, Berkley DB (file system). | | | | longer a 4 click solution.MT-TextileThis is Brad |
| Automatically generated RSS compliant feeds | | | | Choate's well known plugin for performing various |
| aka 'spider food'. | | | | text formatting functions. Mt-Textile integrates |
| Most of the hot chicks I see blogging are using | | | | the Perl Text::Textile module with Movable |
| MovableType or Typepad. | | | | Type.BigPAPIBigPAPI by Kevin Shay is an |
| Movabletype's plugin system is very advanced | | | | extension to the MovableType API allowing users |
| and the community is always pumping out new | | | | to modify MT's own interface - the screens you |
| plugins and widgets for MT based bloggers.I had | | | | see when using Movable Type to manage your |
| to remove most of the links in this article, so if | | | | content. If you are wanting to tinker with MT's |
| you need help finding some the resources I | | | | control panel, this is worth a look. There is also an |
| mention please see the Best Movabletype Plugins | | | | growing list of some very useful plugins that rely |
| original article at ProfitPapers.SEO'ing Movabletype | | | | on the BigPAPI architecture. From the |
| takes some tinkering but the rewards are well | | | | developer:The BigPAPI plugin doesn't actually do all |
| worth the pain. Here are a couple of my recent | | | | that much. It simply overrides a couple of |
| rankings for some rather competitive keywords: | | | | subroutines in the MT::App module that are called |
| Sendstudio Review, Aweber Review. Keep in mind | | | | whenever a page of the MT CMS is about to be |
| this blog is only 3 months old, and I do virtually | | | | displayed. Before going ahead and building the |
| nothing to promote it..Right then. I am focusing on | | | | page, it runs some callbacks. So your plugin simply |
| my last point and will outline in my opinion the | | | | needs to install appropriately named callbacks for |
| best Movabletype plugins, why I think they are | | | | a particular CMS page (or all pages), and you'll |
| useful, and if needed a small blurb of code to help | | | | have the opportunity to tinker with the contents |
| you along. As of version 3.2, Movabletype comes | | | | of the page before it's displayed to the |
| installed by default with the following plugins: | | | | user.Honourable Mentions...There are literally |
| NoFollow, and the 3 Spam Lookup plugs. These | | | | hundreds of movabletype plugins and my short list |
| guys are fairly self explanatory and well | | | | is by no means the same as another users. My |
| documented in the MT manual pages.Now for my | | | | list is focused on getting a movabletype publishing |
| own personal must have list:DashifyDashify is | | | | platform ready for spidering. Different tasks |
| based on dirify. What it does is allow for some | | | | require different tools. Props to the various |
| handy parsing of pretty much any text you want | | | | authors and contributors and DO support these |
| on your blog, for adding your own useful | | | | people with donations or praise, or we will all be |
| characters. Here is an example to illustrate:Hover | | | | stuck coding these tools ourselves ;)Sixapart's |
| over the title or look at the page title of this | | | | main movabletype plugin page - Definitely start |
| entry you are reading and you will see how well | | | | here.Ajaxify - Another great tool from Movalog, |
| my pages are optimized for search: | | | | Ajaxify is a set of plugins that adds several ajax |
| best-movabletype-plugins.php is a much better | | | | javascript widgets into the Movable Type |
| filename than 289374.php or even | | | | interface. It currently consists of |
| best_movabletype_plugins.php - as of this writing | | | | EnhancedEntryEditing - that adds a WYSIWYG |
| Google sees the hyphen as a space but not the | | | | editor and resizable textarea controls to the entry |
| underscore. Here is my dashify code for my | | | | screen - and Search Suggestions - that add a |
| Individual archive under Settings --> | | | | "Google Suggest" like feature to the quicksearch |
| Publishing:%C.phpSimple, yet | | | | box.The CheckLinks plugin tries to access all the |
| effective.MTPaginateMovabletype is not all that | | | | URLs linked to in your entries (or a subset of |
| scalable right out of the box. In fact, not at all | | | | your entries), and lets you display a list of the |
| really. If you bust your ass filling your weblog with | | | | ones it can't successfully access. Another fine |
| content, before you know it your category pages | | | | creative based on BigPAPI extensions.FormatList |
| are reduced to bandwidth hogging scroll sessions. | | | | v1.0 - Easy Bullet Lists in Entries. I use this |
| MTPaginate does what the name says, it | | | | personally and I find it a nice keystroke |
| paginates any entry or category listing you like | | | | saver.Better File Uploader - This one relies on |
| into user friendly navigable areas: 1 |2 | 3 or | | | | BigPAPI and is a sexier interface for uploading |
| Previous | Next, etc. I would speculate that | | | | files.-----Miles Evans provides indepth reviews on |
| Stepen Riya's MTPaginate will eventually be built | | | | every SEO/marketing or killer app he can get his |
| into MT by default before too long. Here is a code | | | | paws on. His reviews, essays, and tools on SEO, |
| snippet from my own category pages on this site. | | | | OLM, reporting, and other equally fascinating |
| The tags are covered in full on Stepen's website | | | | subjects are normally carried out at - Stop by |
| and are very straight forward.Typepad Users: I | | | | and check out the free backlinks page. |