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="10"> <mt:if name="__first__"><ul></mt:if> <li class="entry <mt:if name="__even__">even<mt:else>odd</mt:if>"> <mt:var name="__counter__">. <mt:EntryTitle> </li> <mt:if name="__last__"></ul></mt:if></mt:Entries>


Examples to Draw From


Professional Website


Mid-Century


Sandbox


Revolution


You are not alone.

• Byrne Reese, [email protected]

• http://forums.movabletype.org/

• http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/


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