Rodent Regatta

Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon

Jakub Kazecki posted a handy tip in our newsgroups which enables posting to MovableType directly from FeedDemon.

First, select Tools > Blog this News Item > Configure Blog Publishing Tools, then click the ”Add” button and enter this as the command line:

http://www.myblog.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi?is_bm=1&bm_show=&__mode=view&_type=entry&title=
$ITEM_TITLE$&link_title=$ITEM_TITLE$&link_href=$ITEM
_LINK$&text=$ITEM_DESCRIPTION$

Where ’www.myblog.com/cgi-bin’ is the URL of your MT installation.

After doing this, you’ll be able to right click on a news item and select ”Blog This News Item” to post to your MovableType blog directly from FeedDemon.

• * * UPDATE * * * This method of posting directly from FeedDemon to Movable Type does not allow you to specify what category you want to assign to the entry. It also required some alterations (for my site) to the command line.

Experiment with this before counting on it!!!