Alternate Template Collection

By Arvind , written on May 31, 2005 at 5:46 AM.

To make those Quicktags fit in better, you can add the styling found here (I was using Alex King’s QuickTags too for that hack :))

By Arvind , written on May 31, 2005 at 5:57 AM.

Actually that was for the old MT, if you wrap the quicktags js with a quicktags div, then you can use this CSS

.quicktags input {
background: #F5F9FF;
border: 1px solid #738C99;
color: #000;
font: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
margin: 1px;
padding: 3px;
}

By Dan Wolfgang , written on May 31, 2005 at 12:59 PM.

Thanks, Arvind. I’ve incorporated the above CSS into edit_entry.tmpl.

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Tracked on May 31, 2005 7:32 PM

We’ve just posted the newest article to the Professional Network site: Customizing Movable Type’s Interface with Application Templates. As we mentioned when Movable Type 3.16 was released, our support for custom application templates has been beefed up…

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Tracked on June 3, 2005 10:27 AM

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Tracked on June 8, 2005 12:25 PM

Need to investigate if I might be able to get these alternate templates working with David’s help.

By drastick , written on August 23, 2005 at 5:33 PM.

Im having some trouble getting edit_entry.tmpl to work. I edited my mt.cfg file and added the line mentioned above also created a dir in my moveabletype dir called alttmpl and a cms dir inside of that and uploaded the edit_entry.tmpl template i got from here into that dir. Any help would be appreciated.

By Dan Wolfgang , written on August 29, 2005 at 5:39 PM.

FYI to any other readers, as near as I can figure out, drastick’s problem is due to MT 3.15 not playing nice with my alternate template.

By Dennis Howlett , written on September 2, 2005 at 12:13 PM.

I have the same problem as drastick. I’m on 3.16 (upgrade to 3.2 hasn’t worked - yet) I’m wondering whether the instructios for mt.cfg are correct. The path doesn’t look complete. I have MT in www.mysite.com/MT/ so I’d expect the path to be:
AltTemplatePath http://www.mysite.com/MT/alttmpl OR

AltTemplatePath http://www.mysite.com/MT/alttmpl/cms/

Where am I going wrong?

By Dan Wolfgang , written on September 2, 2005 at 12:55 PM.

Dennis—Add this line to your mt.cfg file:
AltTemplatePath ./alttmpl

Then create www.mysite.com/MT/alttmpl/cms/.

Upload the alternate templates to www.mysite.com/MT/alttmpl/cms/.

By Dennis Howlett , written on September 2, 2005 at 2:11 PM.

OK - so that worked. The only problem I now have is that the list of tags words I use with the Technorati Tags plugin has ‘disappeared.’ So where to now please?

By Dan Wolfgang , written on September 2, 2005 at 6:05 PM.

Does the Technorati Tags plugin replace edit_entry.tmpl or affect the keywords field? If it does, I’m sure the two won’t play nice—they’re both altering the same field.

By dafyddabhugh , written on October 1, 2005 at 5:52 AM.

Hello, Dan. I was having trouble using your alternate entry_edit.tmpl in MT 3.15; but when I upgraded to 3.2 (and downloaded your modified template), everything started working fine.

Do you or anybody else have a similar sort of new template for the comments.tmpl template — one that would allow my readers to select text and click on a [B] or a [I] button to get bold and italics, and to add links and ol’s and ul’s, and all that cool sorta stuff, without having to type scary-looking XHTML tags?

I noticed that at one point I uncommented a line in my mt-config.cgi file that reads “AltTemplate comments comments.tmpl”, so I must have had some sort of idea that such a thing existed.

Do you have one? If not, can you make one? I love your edit_entry.tmpl! And if you do, or if someone does, do I put it in the same ~/alttmpl/cms directory as I put edit_entry.tmpl, or somewhere else?

Oh, one other thing I’m curious about. A friend of mine has a blog on WordPress, and he has a cool feature: as one is typing a comment, its preview appears in real time, as you type, below the entry box. That means you don’t have to click Preview; just scroll down, and you can see the preview of your comment.

Is that possible to do in MT? If you want to see what it looks like in action, his blog is Patterico’s Pontifications. Just pick any post, click comments, and start typing to see what I mean.

Thanks!

Dafydd

By Dan Wolfgang , written on October 3, 2005 at 9:05 AM.

Over on Movalog you can find QuickTags for Comments. Eclecticism used to have a live preview feature for commenters; you might contact Michael about that.

Or, bounce back to Movalog and look at the comment field Arvind has set up—using a WYSIWYG editor!

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Tracked on December 20, 2005 1:15 AM

Nina skriver rätt mycket recept på sin sida. Häromveckan flyttade vi över hela hennes sajt till Movable Type, men Movable Type har ingen smart funktion för att formatera listor (vilket är vad hon använder i recepten). Det borde inte vara…

By Lena , written on February 15, 2006 at 9:29 PM.

Just thought you’d want to know - I’ve been trying to get the alternate edit_entry.tmpl to work in conjunction with the Custom Fields plugin, and it’s not. Working, that is. I haven’t been able to figure out why, yet. I’ll let you know if I do.

By Jon Tillman , written on May 27, 2006 at 9:40 AM.

Lena,
I had much the same problem, and have mostly solved it. Take a look here for my explanation, and to download the fixed edit_entry.tmpl file.

edit_entry from jontillman.com STATIC.
Tracked on May 27, 2006 9:41 AM

Over at eatdrinksleepmovabletype there is a great collection of alternate templates for the movable Type interface. In particular, the edit_entry.tmpl file adds several excellent tools to the entry screen. However, if you were using the CustomFields or…

By Joyce , written on January 16, 2007 at 10:47 AM.

Now that you have upgraded to 3.3, have you also created updated templates or do they still seem to be working with the latest version of MT?

By Dan Wolfgang , written on January 16, 2007 at 12:00 PM.

Hi Joyce—No, I haven’t bothered to update any of the alternate templates. As noted near the top of the document, several plugins now replace the alt. template functionality. The only one missing out is edit_entry.tmpl—I’m working on a plugin for the Quicktags implementation, but it’s not complete yet.