Hacking MovableType, Here I Come
Q: May I modify the Movable Type source code?
A: Yes, as long as you do not redistribute the modified code without permission. In addition, if you modify any of the code and feel that your changes would be useful to all Movable Type users, we encourage you to make your work available to the community of users by sharing it on the independent plug-ins site, http://www.mt-plugins.org.
Looks like Six Apart doesn’t mind too much if we hack Movable Type. Sounds good to me. I think we have enough ideas to keep us busy.
I think first up will be to include dmoz and/or yahoo category forests as selectable Categories. The modification of the RSS template to include the dmoz URI as a rdf:resource of dc:subject will be next. If I can do all that as a plugin, then all the better!
Oh, and I’m focusing on Movable Type because that seems to be pretty popular.
April 15th, 2004 at 9:06 am
I just checked out http://rdf.dmoz.org/. The rdf representing the DMOZ tree is 51.8M. This says a lot about the need for communities to publish a subset!
Some ideas to smooth the user interface (beyond just typing in the Top/X/Y/Z):
- a list of suggested categories based on story content
- preset categories (either by the blogger, or based on the community-published DMOZ subset)
I can see an individual blogger subscribing to category sets published by several different communities. That way, community aggregators such as PlanetRDF could be pinged only with stories appertaining to its published category set.
- JP
April 15th, 2004 at 9:27 am
RE: Hacking Movable Type
Seth Ladd’s post about improving MT with DMOZ uris really has me thinking about cateogory sets again. The fact that the rdf representing the DMOZ tree is 51.8M says a lot about the need for communities to agree on standard categories for blog entries. …