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How do I schedule a blog post in the future?

I read your earlier article about adding users to an MT 3.3 Movable Type blog, and am wondering if you can also share how you schedule blog postings for the future? I have heard you say more than once about...

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How do I let others add articles to my MT blog?

I'm running Movable Type for my blog, as you are with Ask Dave Taylor, and I want to let some friends add content and new articles, but don't want to have them messing things up. How do I set this...

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How do I delete a blog in Movable Type?

Over time I've managed to create a bunch of different blogs, some of which are live and others that have been relegated to the digital recycle bin. Except they're still in my Movable Type installation. How do I actually delete...

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How do I cancel my Typepad account?

I dunno if you can help me out, but I've been using Typepad for quite a while now and it's time to move to my own blogging solution on my own server. My question is: how the heck do I...

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Can I change an account password in Movable Type?

I manage a Movable Type blog that has a number of different authors and one of my less prolific writers just emailed me saying she can't log in any more. Is there a way I can change her password as...

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What's the difference between Blogger and Wordpress?

I just purchased Growing Your Business with Google and can't wait to start reading it. Here's my questions. What are the major differences between Blogger and WordPress and why would I want to use one rather than the other?...

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Can I automatically ping Google Blogsearch?

I have a pretty long list of sites that I ping but only recently realized that I have no way of pinging the new Google Blogsearch service when I have a new entry on my MT blog! Is there a...

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How do I back up my Movable Type weblog?

I'm really getting into blogging, but am starting to get a bit paranoid (especially after I read about how Robert Scoble lost years of his blog entries after 9/11 [ref]) and feel like I really need to create my own...

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Can I have conditional text in a Movable Type template?

Dave, I'm awful curious about how exactly you have the PSP book advert that shows up on your pages related to the Sony PSP, but nowhere else on your site. Is that some fancy trick you're doing with Movable Type,...

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