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


Publishing in MT

• Static Publishing
• Dynamic Publishing
• Background Publishing
• Publishing HTML, PHP, JSP, etc.


Module Caching


Templates


Widgets


Styles


Themes
(a.k.a. Template Sets)


Applying
a Theme


Exporting a Theme


Template Tags


Basic Syntax
• Case Insensitive Markup Language
• All equivalent:
• <mt:Foo>
• <MTFoo>
• <$mt:Foo$>
• <mtfoo>


Function Tags
• <mt:EntryTitle>
• <mt:AuthorName>
• <mt:AuthorUserpic>
• <mt:AssetThumbnailURL width=”100”>

• <mt:CommentText>
• Hundreds more...


Container Tags
• <mt:Entries>
• <mt:Comments>
• <mt:Authors>
• Arguments:
• sort, sort_direction, lastn, <filter by>

• Many more...


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...


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”>


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


Loops
•Meta Variables:
• __first__
• __last__
• __counter__
• __even__
• __odd__


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>


Examples to Draw From


Professional Website


Mid-Century


Sandbox


Revolution


You are not alone.

• Byrne Reese, byrne@sixapart.com
• http://forums.movabletype.org/
• http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/


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