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Bug: Movable Type' s MTInclude Tag Caching Broken while Memcached Active

By Maarten Schenk on June 14, 2011 2:00 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks |
Are you using Memcached in combination with Movable Type, and are you using the caching options on one or more of your module or widget templates?  Then have a look at these bug reports (106215, 106287), as they might affect the performance of your installation quite negatively.

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Using the Same Memcached Daemon for Multiple Movable Type Installations

By Maarten Schenk on October 1, 2010 2:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks |
Memcached is a great way to speed up rebuild times and interface speed in Movable Type.  If you have control over your own server, setting it up is actually not that difficult.  Basically you install and start a memcached daemon and then you tell Movable Type to start caching data in it by setting a MemcachedServers directive in mt-config.cgi.
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Getting all Entries Linked to an Asset in Movable Type

By Maarten Schenk on July 13, 2010 10:53 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks |
A while ago I needed to be able to display a list of images along with the blog entries in which they occurred.  Movable Type has an <mt:EntryAssets> tag that makes it very easy to show a list of entries with the images in them, but the reverse tag (<mt:AssetEntries>) didn't exist, unfortunately.
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Don't Ignore Movable Type's <mt:ignore> Tag

By Maarten Schenk on May 17, 2010 9:18 AM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks |
When faced with a Movable Type blog that is sometimes slow to publish, you could immediately break out the heavy guns and set up some performance logging to try and find out which templates are taking too long to publish.  There is an entire section of the documentation dedicated to this.  But before editing configuration files and starting to pore over logfiles, don't ignore the humble <mt:ignore> tag...
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Optimizing Movable Type's Templates... Automatically!

By Maarten Schenk on April 20, 2010 9:40 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks |
A few days ago Endevver announced a new plugin to the Movable Type community: Template Optimizer.  I just installed and tested it, and it looks impressive.  The plugin scans all templates of one or more blogs on your Movable Type installation and offers a number of suggestions to improve efficiency and speed of publication.
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Optimizing Movable Type's Standard Templates for Speed (part 2)

By Maarten Schenk on March 4, 2010 4:37 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks |
In the previous article in this series I talked about how you can set publication of certain templates to 'Manually' to speed up publishing of your blog.  Today will discuss setting up caching and server side includes, and the reasons for using them.  The first reason is pretty important: if you don't use them the sidebar(s) on most of your Movable Type blog will constantly be out of date if you are using the default templates.
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Optimizing Movable Type's Standard Templates for Speed (part 1)

By Maarten Schenk on February 22, 2010 10:24 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks |
Overall, Movable Type has some pretty decent standard templates.  Optimized for SEO, standardized class names and IDs, nicely separated in modules...  There is some learning involved if you want to understand all the conditional stuff that is going on under the hood, but once you know what you are doing they are quite easy to maintain and customize.  Not to mention the styles that are already available.
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