Building Web Sites With Movable Type

Building Web Sites with Byrne Reese, Six Apart Thursday, November 6, 2008

Let’s chat about... • Movable Type Publishing • Templates • Template Sets/Themes • Template Tags Thursday, November 6, 2008

Publishing in MT • Static Publishing • Dynamic Publishing • Background Publishing • Publishing HTML, PHP, JSP, etc. Thursday, November 6, 2008

Module Caching Thursday, November 6, 2008

Templates Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Widgets Thursday, November 6, 2008

Styles Thursday, November 6, 2008

Themes (a.k.a. Template Sets) Thursday, November 6, 2008

Applying a Theme Thursday, November 6, 2008

Exporting a Theme Thursday, November 6, 2008

Template Tags Thursday, November 6, 2008

Basic Syntax • Case Insensitive Markup Language • All equivalent: • <mt:Foo> • <MTFoo> • <$mt:Foo$> • <mtfoo> Thursday, November 6, 2008

Function Tags • <mt:EntryTitle> • <mt:AuthorName> • <mt:AuthorUserpic> • <mt:AssetThumbnailURL width=”100”> • <mt:CommentText> • Hundreds more... Thursday, November 6, 2008

Container Tags • <mt:Entries> • <mt:Comments> • <mt:Authors> • Arguments: • sort, sort_direction, lastn, <filter by> • Many more... Thursday, November 6, 2008

Tag Modiﬁers • Can be used on any tag • <mt:EntryTitle lower_case=”1”> • regex_replace=”/foo/”,”bar” • encode_html=”1” (js, xml, etc) • upper_case=”1”, lower_case=”1” • count_words=”1” • trim • Many more... Thursday, November 6, 2008

Variables • <mt:var name=”foo” value=”bar”> • <mt:SetVarBlock name=”foo”> <mt:Entries> <mt:EntryTitle> </mt:Entries> </mt:SetVarBlock> • <mt:EntryTitle setvar=”foo”> • <mt:var name=”foo”> Thursday, November 6, 2008

Conditionals • <mt:if name=”foo” eq=”bar”> • <mt:else name=”foo” eq=”baz”> • <mt:else> • <mt:if name=”foo” ne=”$bar”> • Operations: eq, ne, gt, lt, le, ge Thursday, November 6, 2008

Loops •Meta Variables: • __first__ • __last__ • __counter__ • __even__ • __odd__ Thursday, November 6, 2008

Meta Variables (example) <mt:Entries lastn=quot;10quot;> <mt:if name=quot;__first__quot;><ul></mt:if> <li class=quot;entry <mt:if name=quot;__even__quot;>even<mt:else>odd</mt:if>quot;> <mt:var name=quot;__counter__quot;>. <mt:EntryTitle> </li> <mt:if name=quot;__last__quot;></ul></mt:if> </mt:Entries> Thursday, November 6, 2008

Examples to Draw From Thursday, November 6, 2008

Professional Website Thursday, November 6, 2008

Mid-Century Thursday, November 6, 2008

Sandbox Thursday, November 6, 2008

Revolution Thursday, November 6, 2008

You are not alone. • Byrne Reese, byrne@sixapart.com • http://forums.movabletype.org/ • http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/ Thursday, November 6, 2008

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