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May 15, 2005

Manage Categories In Your Blog

Posts in many blogs, including MovableType, are usually filed and organized into categories. Here's how to add, edit, and delete categories within your blog.
  1. Log into your blog's administration area, and click on the name of the blog you wish to modify.
  2. From the menu on the left, click on "Categories". You are now in the Categories area.
To add a new category,
  • click on "Create new top level category",
  • enter the title in the box,
  • and click the "Create Category" button.
To edit existing categories,
  • click on the name of the category,
  • edit the title and any other desired information,
  • then scroll down to the bottom and click the "Save" button.
Categories can be deleted by checking the checkbox next to each category you wish to delete, then clicking on the "Delete" button at the bottom of the list.

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Edit a Previous Post

So you've made a post to your blog, but maybe there's a typo on the first line. Or perhaps you would like the post to be in a different category. Here's how to edit a post.
  1. Log into your admin area, and click on the name of the blog where the post resides.
  2. Click on the "Entries" option from the menu on the left. You are presented with a list of postings, by title.
  3. Click on the name of the entry you wish to edit.
  4. You will be presented with the same screen as you see when posting. Edit your entry, and click the "Save" button at the bottom of the form.
  5. Rebuild & view your site.

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Post to Your Blog

So you've got this nifty new blog, but there's nothing there. Here's how to add an entry into your MovableType blog.
  1. Log into your blog's administration area, and click on the name of the blog you wish to post to.
  2. From the menu on the left, click on "New Entry".
  3. Enter a title for the post.
  4. Select a category to post to. If you don't have any categories yet,
    1. choose "Add new category" from the dropdown list. A window will pop up. In this new pop up window, enter a name for the category in the "Category Title" box. If you don't have any idea what kind of category to create, you can create a "General" category for your posts to default to.
    2. Click the "Add" button. You will be brought back into the post screen.
  5. Enter the text for your post into the "Entry Body" box.
  6. Make sure the "Post Status" is set to "Publish".
  7. Click on the "Save" button.
  8. Rebuild your site by clicking on the "Rebuild Site" option on the menu on the left.
To view your posted entry on your site, click on the "View Site" option on the bottom of the menu on the left. You can also edit previous entries. To edit posted entries, click on the "Entries" option from the menu on the left, within the admin area for the blog, and click on the name of the entry you wish to edit. You will be presented with the same screen as you are when posting - edit your entry, and click save. Rebuild & view your site.

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Create a backup file for your MovableType Blog

Let's face it - we've all lost data before. Here's how to download all the content from your MT Blog for safe keeping.
  1. Log into your blog administration area.
  2. Click on the title of the blog you want to back up.
  3. From the menu on the left, click on "Import/Export".
  4. On this page, click on the link that says "Export Entries".
  5. Click on the link that says "Export Entries From Weblog for ...".
  6. Save the file to your computer.

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Change your MovableType Password

The password for your MovableType blog was provided to you in the email you recieved when your blog was created. Here's how to change that password. You'll first need to log into your blog administration area. Once logged in, follow these steps.
  1. From the "System Shortcuts" menu on the right, click the "Authors" link.
  2. Click on your username
  3. Beneath "Password", enter your Current Password, then type your desired password into the "New Password" and "Password confirm" fields. Don't forget to enter a password hint!
  4. Click the "Save Changes" button.

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May 14, 2005

Configure Typekey Comments on your MT Blog

To prevent comment spam, your MT blog allows you to require anyone posting a comment to register with the TypeKey service. TypeKey is an external authentication service, intended to allow blog owners to require users to be logged in to comment (and thus decreasing spam), and at the same time provide users with one sign-on account across a large number of blogs (and so decreasing the number of passwords people have to remember). Here's how to enable comments using this service. To enable comments with this service:
  1. Log into your blog's administrative interface
  3. Click on "Settings" from the menu on the left.
  4. Click on the "Feedback" link near the top of the page.
  5. Choose "Authenticated commenters only".
  6. Click the "Setup Authentication" button. This will open a new window, taking you to the TypeKey registration site.
  7. Login, or register a new account.
  8. Once logged in to TypeKey, scroll down to the bottom of the Account Preferences page, and enter the address of your main/root blog into one of the boxes under "Your Weblog Preferences".
  9. Copy the "TypeKey token" from the space above the box you just pasted the url into (it looks something like "R9DkT180vExXUbWSpi").
  10. Click the "Save Changes" button.
  11. Close the TypeKey window, and paste the TypeKey Token you just copied into the box to the right of the "Setup Authentication" button.
  12. From the options next to "Immediately publish comments from:", choose "Any authenticated commenters".
  13. Scroll down and click the "Save Changes" button.
  14. Rebuild your site.

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