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Instructions
The Toolbar now works with Movable Type 2.2+! The
installation instructions are shown below; make sure to read the Blogger page because all the
notes and such also apply to Movable Type. And check out
the screenshot. The Toolbar
is free for personal use, you need to license it
for commercial use.
Note that this functionality is still in beta
— so there may be unanticipated
problems. Please let us know of any by emailing support@aspmodules.com!
Setup Instructions:
- Install the Toolbar.
You should make sure you've upgraded to IE6 before you do
this. You'll have to close your browser after installation (some
folks with older Windows OS's may have to reboot) so make sure you
can get back here. After you install it and press the
button to turn
it on, move the Adminimizer Toolbar to its own row so you can use
all the options.
- Make sure your Movable Type installation is set up to use
XML-RPC. Go to http://www.your-site.com/mt/mt-check.cgi.
(where your-site.com is your MT site's URL) Make sure the optional
modules LWP::UserAgent and SOAP::Lite are present on your
server.
- Edit your Main Index template (Manage
Blog --> Templates):
-
- Add these just below body tag:
<script
id="AdminimizerScripts"></script>
<xml id="AdminimizerToolbar"
src="ATSettings.xml"></xml>
- Add this tag just above the opening <MTEntries>
tag:
<div id="editSpace_new"
style="width:95%"></div>
Or if you use titles for your
posts add these two lines instead:
<div id="editTitle_new"
style="width:95%"></div><br />
<div id="editSpace_new" style="width:95%"></div>
- Replace "<$MTEntryBody$>" with this line:
<div
id="editSpace_<$MTEntryID
pad="0"$>"><$MTEntryBody$></div>
- If you use titles for your posts replace
"<$MTEntryTitle$>" with this line:
<span id="editTitle_<$MTEntryID pad="0"$>">
<$MTEntryTitle$></span>
- Rebuild your blog after you make these changes.
- Finally, you need to create a XML file which will tell the
toolbar what it needs to know to update your blog. This needs two
pieces of information: your Blog ID number and the URL for your MT
installation.
-
- To find your Blog ID go to the MT blog control panel
and look for the "blog_id" at the end of the URL in the
Address bar of your browser.
- Your MT installation URL will probably look something
like
"http://www.your-site.com/mt/".
Don't forget the "http" at the front, the ending slash and no
quotes!
-
Choose "Save the file to disk" and then FTP it onto the
same directory as the MT blog page you want to edit.
- If you don't use categories or if you want to
assign them manually should edit the ATSettings.xml file. Change
the <API> node from "mt" to "metaWeblog". This will
disable the category dialog box.
That's it! When you visit your MT blog you will see the "save"
button on the toolbar become enabled. That means the page is ready
for editing using the Adminimizer Toolbar. Just press the "a"
button to get started!
NOTE FOR NON-ENGLISH USERS: The current
version of the toolbar now treats special characters correctly when
used in English. If you're use a different language go into the
ATSettings.xml file and change the <CharEncoding> node to
"raw" (no quotes) and make sure you are defining the encoding of
the page by placing this meta tag inbetween your <head>
tags:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
We've had feedback that this works in some languages, but
we haven't fully tested this in all languages yet. So, if
you're blog is not in English be careful, and
please let us know
what you find!.
Is this Freeware, Open Source, or
what?
It's free for personal blog use, but it's not
open source and it's not freeware. Here's our evil plan for world
domination: Get bloggers using it, once they realize how great
it is they'll want to use it at work in other projects. Their
employers will pay us. We'll be happy, the bloggers will be happy
and their employers will be happy. Bwahahahaha.
Just FYI, the Toolbar is not scumware, adware,
spyware or any other type of ickyware. It doesn't call home or
anything like that, ever.
What other tricks can I do with the
Toolbar?
As you may have noticed in the XML file, the Toolbar is
pretty powerful. It's really meant to be used as a tool to
maintain website content, but it turns out it works great for
Blogs, too. Most of its functionality is explained
in detail on the settings
documentation page, but there are a few things that you might
be interested in:
Image Tool: By default the ImageEditor is
turned off because it requires a custom web page on the
server. If you use a Microsoft server you can use this asp file. To use it you'll
need to change the ImageWebFolder variable in ImageEditor.asp and
you'll need to change the
<PageVariables><ImageEditor><Enabled> node of
blogSettings.xml to "True". If you're on a different type of server
you'll have to build your own ImageEditor file. Basically, all you
need to do is list out IMG tags for all the images
in your image directory. You can then drag them from
the ImageEditor into any editable area on
your Blog.
Other advanced tips can be found here.
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