Comments for Universal Template Set Hacks

Universal Template Set Hacks

2008-08-14T16:54:19Z

With the release of Movable Type Pro, and with us making is completely free to bloggers, the Universal Template Set has been quickly making its way into the hands of more bloggers. I often get asked by other UTS users, "could you send me your templates, I would like a front door that displays my action streams like yours does."

In the past I just replied to those emails after having cut and paste my template code into the email. But recently I created a handy template set generator, or exporter for Movable Type that makes it a snap for me to package up all of my templates into an easy to install plugin.

And that is exactly what I did with my current design. So if you are looking for a Universal Template Set, or Professional Website variant that includes support for Action Streams, look no further. Here it is:

Download Majordojo UTS now.

Prerequisites

Action Streams
Media Manager

Features

Front door that has a list of recent blog entries, the last 20 items from your action stream, and a stream of items your are consuming from Amazon, YouTube and Flickr.
A dedicated page and archive of Action Streams.
Action Streams Atom Feed

Feedback

Yes, I want to hear it. Send me a comment.

Comment from Jeremy on 2008-08-15

2008-08-15T14:45:33Z

Thank you Byrne. Keep up all the great work.

Comment from rhino on 2008-08-16

2008-08-16T18:35:06Z

Byrne,

I just created a new blog on my testing install with this template set and then imported entries in to the blog to populate some data...however once i go to publish the files...i get errors for missing widgets. Here are the widget modules its reporting missing: Sign In Search The 3 Side-Bar Widget Sets Powered By (Footer) Footer Links Once I mt:ignore those out, the template completes the publishing process, however when I view the site nothing comes up. (I also tried refreshing the template set...but that didn't help)

-Ryan

Comment from toni.hambilton.myopenid.com on 2008-08-17

2008-08-17T12:25:53Z

Looks like the export didn't work properly because there's no files in the mt-static folder.

Comment from Byrne on 2008-08-17

2008-08-18T04:13:16Z

What version of Movable Type are you using? This requires Movable Type Pro 4.2 or greater. Do you have that installed?

Comment from toni.hambilton.myopenid.com on 2008-08-17

2008-08-18T06:51:09Z

Hi Byrne,

I hadn't actually installed it yesterday, but have now. I'm using MTPro 4.2. The templates cited above are missing and I've been able to create the sign-in and search from backups. The others I've created from a test blog on the same server. A bit of to-and-froing between tabs.

There should be at least a header file and the css in the mt-static folder but it's empty. The css might have to get from your own css file.

It'll work, but now out of the box.

Comment from toni.hambilton.myopenid.com on 2008-08-17

2008-08-18T06:56:12Z

Sorry Byrne,

Just realised this is a default style and can be applied using StyleCatcher. Don't need yours at all.

Comment from rhino on 2008-08-18

2008-08-18T16:55:01Z

I have 4.2 Pro installed. I can also confirm that the mt-static folder in the download (that I downloaded the other day) did not have any files in it.