Babble On

Everywhere I look these days it seems that many sites are using Action Streams to show what they're linking to or what they've been doing.

When the Action Streams plugin was first released I looked at it and thought it was too hard to implement. Now that I've installed it, it seems it couldn't be easier. The instructions are well written and I even managed to style it so it fitted in perfectly with the rest of the site.

It's interesting to see what other bloggers are bookmarking and I've found myself following links quite often. Every time I save a link to Magnolia or Delicious, I wished I had the action stream plugin installed so I could share my links too.

Of course, Action Streams is capable of much more than what I'm using it for. The possibilities for this plugin are endless, and new features are constantly being added by plugin developers.

Although the announcement hasn't been made public as far as I can see, the third release candidate for MT 4.2 is available.

After updating, I can't see any changes so I assume the release only contains a few bug fixes. I couldn't find any reference to this new release on the MTOS website.

After two weeks of trying to get the Translate Plugin for MT to work, I've given up and decided on a different solution that translates the entire page instead of just the entry. Language translation is important for you site to reach a larger audience since only around one quarter of the world population speaks English.

Download the script and follow the instructions for installation.

I downloaded the Post Office plugin after installing the release candidate 2 of MT4.2 and am disappointed that it doesn't seem to work. I can send an email and it ends up in my Gmail inbox, but how it gets posted to my blog is a mystery.

I've had 2 goes at trying to send a post via email and I'm stumped. I've got the link at the bottom of the entry screen (strange place to have it, by the way, why would I want a link there when I'm already in the create entry interface?)

I like the idea of a top navigation bar and today I went about adding one to my modified Unity Blue theme by following Elise's instructions for customising the default style in MT4.

The code for the menu bar is modified from Majordojo's Cutline Theme. It's really quite easy to implement.

Zemanta has developed a plugin for Movable Type 4.1 based on the browser extension that I had previously installed. The downside to having a browser extension soon became obvious when I tried to blog from a different computer and no longer had the Zemanta features in MT. Also, Zemanta wouldn't display if Rich Text was selected as the formatting preference.

In a previous post I noted that Joomsayer didn't work for MT 4.1 and onwards. Well that's not the case anymore since there's a new version that works fine. I installed it tonight and although there's no longer a button on the MT Entry interface, just using the blockquote tag will transform the quotes to the Joomsayer style. Make sure you add a link to the Joomsayer for Movable Type page on your own blog on all pages where Joomsayer displays quotation boxes. If you're upgrading from the previous version, be sure to include step 8 in the install instructions.