From MovableType

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Using this Guide

• Introduction to Plugins

  • The Basic Structure of a Plugin
    • Other Common Directories
    • Naming and Packaging Conventions
  • Plugin Packaging
  • Plugin Directory

• Plugin Basics: Building Your First Movable Type Plugin

  • The Movable Type Registry: What it is, and how it works.
  • A YAML Primer
    • Yet Another Markup Language
    • Basic YAML Data Structures
  • Adding Your First Configuration Directives
  • Adding a Simple Template Tag
  • Your Plugin Module
    • Template Tag Handler
    • Inline Documentation
  • Summary and Conclusion

• Intermediate Plugin API Topics: Taking Your Plugin to the Next Level

  • Configuration Directives - a complete reference
    • Default Values
    • Paths
    • Aliases
    • handlers
    • Types: SCALAR, HASH, ARRAY
  • Template Tags - a complete reference
    • Arguments
    • Conditional Tags
    • Container Tags
  • Template Tag Modifiers
  • Text Filters
  • Custom OpenID Login Screens

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* Custom Custom Field Types
* Upgrade Functions
* Custom Archive Types
* Backup Instructions
* Rich Text Editors
* Ping Servers
* Captcha Providers
* Tasks
* Task Workers
* Archivers
* Custom Permissions
* Junk Filters

• Application Development in Movable Type

  • Modes
    • Registering
    • Loading and displaying templates
  • Actions
    • List Actions
    • Page Actions
  • Menus
  • Listing Screens
  • Dialogs
  • Altering the UI
    • Alt-Templates
    • Transformation Callbacks
  • Dashboard
    • Widgets
    • Blog Stats Tabs
  • Plugin Configuration
    • plugin_settings
    • Config Assistant
    • Custom configuration UIs

• Advanced Developer Techniques

  • DebugMode
  • MT::Object: Data Structures and Persistence
    • Schemas
    • load, save, delete, load_iter
    • Schema Versions and Upgrading
    • Object Callbacks
  • Callbacks
    • Application vs. Objects
    • Creating Your Own Callbacks

APIs for Designers

• Default templates
  • global templates
• Template Sets
  • export-ts
  • static files
• Style Catcher Repositories
• User-Agent sniffing - a look inside iMT
• Template Snippets

Dynamic Publishing and PHP

• Introduction to Smarty

Advanced Topics

• Interfaces
  • Scorable
  • Taggable
  • Authentication
• Web Services
• Localization
  • l10n_class
  • __trans tags
  • MT->translate()
• Custom Asset Types

• Plugins vs. Add-ons

• Advanced Registry Techniques

  • Storing plugin configuration data

Appendix

• MT Modules
  • MT::Object
  • MT::Auth

Distribution

• Packaging
• Licensing
• The plugin directory