Movable Type Assets

For quite some time, I’ve been manually uploading images to my servers using a command line script to do the following:

• Rename the image file
• Compress it
• Create a thumbnail
• Transfer it to the server
• Create the HTML code to embed it in a blog post

I did this because I wasn’t crazy about how MovableType or Wordpress handled file uploads. While this worked OK for me, it wasn’t a good solution for the other bloggers on our team.

So today I hacked up MovableType just a tiny bit to support the type of solution I wanted:

• Original image assets in a central repository
• Asset thumbnails in the site path

The gory details are over at Docunext:

• Messing with MovableType
• Finally: Somewhat custom upload paths for MTOS
• MTOS Publishing Queue on Debian, Uploads, and Asset Paths

This will hopefully work for the other members of our team, its a pretty straightforward process - I’ll just have to remember to update the extras path every quarter!