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Dynamic copyright (January 1, 2007) How to ensure your copyright date is always current.

Markdown for MT fix (February 2, 2006) A patch for Markdown so empty text doesn't get transformed.

Six Apart Musings (September 9, 2004) Thoughts on the future of Movable Type, Six Apart, and my plugins.

Dirify in PHP (July 7, 2004) A port of Movable Type's dirify function to PHP.

EntryCount plugin (December 12, 2003) A Movable Type plugin that displays a running total of the number of entries in your blog.

MT Consulting (October 10, 2003) If you are using Movable Type on your site, I can help.

Ounce of prevention (September 9, 2003) Steps I've taken to deter comment spam and how to keep bots from finding your comment forms.

Zempt competitor? (July 7, 2003) What the SocialDynamX MT application is and how it affects Zempt.

Technorati fix (July 7, 2003) Apparently the Technorati API service is experiencing some problems today that are causing errors for people using my Technorati plugin. The newest version of the plugin fixes this and adds a new feature.

New Technorati plugin (May 5, 2003) A new version of the Technorati plugin handles errors in the Technorati XML better, has a bunch or new configuration options, and lets you use Movable Type date formatting commands.

Technorati plugin (May 5, 2003) Dave Sifry has opened up a Technorati interface that allows outside developers to use the Technorati data. I've whipped up a quick MT plugin that can get the Technorati link Cosmos for your entire blog or a specific entry and insert it into your blog pages.

Zempt (May 5, 2003) Introducing Zempt, a multi-platform offline publishing tool for Movable Type.

Related Entries Revisited (May 5, 2003) A better way to create a list of related blog entries using MySQL fulltext indexes and the MTSQL plugin. Includes a complete technical overview of how the solution works and performance considerations.

SimpleComments 1.1 (April 4, 2003) A new version of SimpleComments has comment numbers, entry containers, and can be used outside an entry.

Hosted Movable Type (April 4, 2003) Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, have announed a hosted blogging service based on Movable Type techonology.

MovableJive (February 2, 2003) A port of some classic text filters to Movable Type. Translate your posts into Jive, Texas Drawl, Cockney, Swedish Chef, Valley Girl, German Accent, or Hunting Wabbits.

SimpleComments (February 2, 2003) A Movable Type plugin that combines comments and TrackBacks into a single, simple list.

Comments, please (February 2, 2003) I'm testing out a new MT plugin that I've been working on, and I need your help. Please leave some comments and trackback pings on this entry.

Expressions (January 1, 2003) A Movable Type plugin for plugin developers. Let people use expressions like <MTFoo bar="[MTEntryBody encode_xml="1"]"> in your plugins.

Related Keywords (December 12, 2002) An undocumented feature of the Related Entries plugin for Movable Type.

Automatic Keywords (November 11, 2002) The problem with machine generated metadata is that it's not always accurate.

Double spaces (October 10, 2002) Responding to Scott Johnson's challenge, an MT plugin for converting spaces.

Sanitary comments (October 10, 2002) The Sanitize plugin improves security for outside HTML on Movable Type Weblogs.

MTImageCount (August 8, 2002) The WordCount plugin learns a new trick.

Better Amazon links (August 8, 2002) Earn a higher commission on sales through MTAmazon and provide a better experience to your users.

Process Tags plugin (August 8, 2002) A Movable Type plugin that allows you to use MT tags in your entry bodies, excerpts, category descriptions, or anywhere else.

MTAmazon 2.0 (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that displays products from Amazon.com on your site. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories. New in version 2.0 is caching, related products searching, and more tags for Amazon product information.

Amazon plugin (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that uses your Amazon Associate membership to retreive products from Amazon. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories.

Smart Comments for Movable Type (July 7, 2002) How to put grammatically correct comment counts (0 replies, 1 reply, 2 replies) in your Movable Type pages without JavaScript, PHP, or other server-side scripting.

Related Entries Plugin (July 7, 2002) A Movable Type plugin that inserts entries that are in the same category as the current entry. Now version 1.1.

SmartBody Plugin (July 7, 2002) Another Movable Type plugin. This one is a smart excerpt tag. If an entry has an excerpt, this tag inserts it. If there isn't an excerpt, the entry body is used instead. Also includes an MTEntryIfExcerpt tag.

NicknameLink Plugin (July 7, 2002) A Movable Type plugin that updates the MTEntryAuthorLink to use the author's nickname.

Word count plugin for Movable Type (June 6, 2002) MTWordCount is a Movable Type plugin that counts your entry's words and inserts it into your page. Version 1.4 includes an image count for photo blogs.

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