http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:08:07 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001040.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001039.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000934.html After I added some new commenting features to this blog, this error started to appear when comments were submitted: Comment Submission Error Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Text entered was wrong. Try again."... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000877.html This blog runs on the Movable Type engine, selected mainly because I like the fact that it publishes a static HTML file for each article. For a long time, Movable Type appeared to be slowing down at publishing posts, particularly ones containing many images. It could take anywhere from a few seconds to five minutes or more just to publish... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000545.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000505.html I recently had the (undesired) opportunity to learn about HTTP and SQL injection attacks. It took a great deal of effort to diagnose and clean up, but hopefully what I learned from the experience may help you prevent these attacks on your own site or clean up after such an attack. I first found out my site had been compromised... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000364.html Recently, my webhost enabled phpsuexec on the server, and several of the web applications on my site stopped working. Movabletype began rebuilding pages with the wrong permissions, so browsing an affected page would generate a 500 error. The way to fix this problem is to add DBUmask 0022 HTMLUmask 0022 UploadUmask 0022 DirUmask 0022 to your mt-config.cgi file More information... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000276.html I am happy to say that this site has been updated to the latest version of MoveableType with no serious problems at all. Installation My old templates all worked. The old database converted without any issues. Overall the basic installation took about 45 minutes, with me being extra careful and backing things up several ways. Comments are back on! The... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000153.html One day, about 6 months ago, spam comments started showing up in this blog, with generic messages, advertising poker sites, porn sites, or weird search sites that seemed to be clearinghouses for other spam sites. After doing some research I first changed the name of the comments and trackback script files in my MoveableType setup. This pretty much stopped the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000128.html Recently my web-host restored the server I use after some problems which necessitated wiping it and starting from scratch. After doing this my installation of MovableType was no longer able to create thumbnails. The thumbnail option no longer appeared in the upload dialog. When I looked at the config file, all the thumbnail options were commented out - in other... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000095.html A few days ago, I deleted 2 MovableType categories that did not have any entries in them. The next time I tried to publish an entry, I got this error: Can't call method "label" without a package or object reference at plugins/sub_cats.pl line 67 It turns out that the Subcategories plugin could not deal with non-continuous numbering of category id's.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000041.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000023.html Yesterday I found that all the entries had disappeared off my main moveable type index page. I had recently posted an entry about popup windows, and another about Photoshop brushes, so I knew there should be something in "recent entries." I spent several hours experimenting with the templates and combing the support forum - finally I realized the answer. I... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000012.html Thanks to Crys Clous, there is a new plugin for Movable Type that adds an option to the Text Formatting dropdown in the entry editing page, called QuickCode. When selected, it allows you to use the BBcode tags, like [code][code], [img], [b], [i], etc. [/code] [b][url=thedesignspace.net]This is some code[/url] [/b] It's available for download here... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000010.html Thanks to the helpful folks on the MoveableType support forum I now have a couple of ways to post code in my entries. NOTE: because my new multi-column layout creates issues with form fields in Safari, I've also included links to download the code. 1. Install Brad Choates macro plugin, and use it to escape the HTML. Insert this into...