Appendix B. Template Tag Reference

The building block of any Movable Type template is the template tag. In some respects template tags are similar to HTML tags, which you are familiar with; however, HTML tags provide structure to the content of a page, whereas template tags actually provide instructions for creating or formatting the content itself.

Much of these tags' behavior is determined by their context, so this appendix describes the standard template tags and their attributes, grouping them into nine different categories based on the context in which they appear:

  • Weblog tags

  • Entry tags

  • Archive tags

  • Category tags

  • Calendar tags

  • Search results tags

  • Comment tags

  • TrackBack tags

  • Miscellaneous tags

Each tag is also categorized as one of five different ...

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