archGFX » movable-type http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sandbox and Promised Land for Movable Type http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/sandbox-and-promised-land-for-movable-type http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/sandbox-and-promised-land-for-movable-type#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:28 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/?p=1393

The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type.  They've included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition.  The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin.  After that, you'll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 .  You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, which means that the Bus Full of Hippies design should work on Movable Type as well.  Hopefully, this will make designing for Movable Type easier for people used to WordPress.  My previous attempts at using their templates failed, since there were no examples of using Pages as a navigation menu.  I'm having a little trouble with my own test blog, and I'm completely new to movable type. At this time, I won't be able to provide support for the Movable Type version of the theme, but Movable Type does provide their own support, which is undoubtedly strong.


  1. My own attempt failed to copy down the background images, YMMV.
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  • The Moose is Loose!  Joen has released Fauna 1.0 Final(ly)  - I doubt Andy's response carries much weight for wordpress.com after a year and a half, but hey,  fauna's still a great theme.
  • Also overdue, but less so:  Movable Type OS has been released.  WP-super-cache and MT-Burn plugins make it less different from WordPress than it used to be.  It's still great to see competition.  Especially in the area of database agnosticism.
  • This may be my last post of the year.  As of Monday I'm off to  spend the holidays in England and Belgium.
  • When I return, the WordPress-powered re-launch of Blueprint's website should be live.  It's looking pretty hot, but there's still a lot of work left.  Eric and I will be writing resources to help clients understand what they can do with their WordPress sites in the blog, and they should be pretty useful to anyone just starting out with WordPress.
    • ]]>     http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/buckshot-ep-8-release/feed 3     MT4 and the WXR data silo http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/mt4-and-the-wxr-data-silo http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/mt4-and-the-wxr-data-silo#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:35:17 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/mt4-and-the-wxr-data-silo Just for reference, if you've been using UTW with wordpress, and are trying to migrate to MT4, you'll need to double check that your WXR export file uses <category> instead of <dc:subject>. I also found that the MT4 import balked at attachments, so I searched my export file for <wp:post_type>attachment</wp:post_type>, and removed the surrounding <item> 1 some of my attachments did import, though (the ones that i imported from WP.com), so i suspect that the importer is actually balking at the backslashes leftover from being hosted on IIS.


    1. if i were savvy enough, i could use RegEx to do it with a find and replace command. sadly, RegEx is not something that makes a lick of sense to me.
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