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Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type: Mark Pilgrim has created a great URL scheme in Movable Type for the cleanest URLs I’ve seen yet. Clean URLs are an anal-retentive obsession with me. I found this via a great page at Brainstorms and Raves devoted to URL beauty.

Mark is using MT keywords to store part of the URL. This brings up a frustrating thing with MT: the lack of user-definable fields. It’s sad that I have to waste a field for something as small as this. Just five user-definable fields would improve MT immensely.

Deane | October 2, 2003

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The next best thing to user-defined fields in MT is Brad Choate’s Key-Value MT plug-in. Find it at: http://www.bradchoate.com/past/keyvalues.php

bob monsour | October 2, 2003 8:55 AM

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