How-to: Paged Category Archives in MovableType

I used MovableType 2.64 to manage my weblog from late 2003 through early 2005, and I discovered that one thing the system lacked was a native way to create paged archive listings organized by category.

MovableType is written in Perl, a language that I haven’t spent any serious time with since 1998. Looking through the MovableType source code I knew I was in over my head, so I rolled up my sleeves and implemented a workaround with PHP. Figuring that I couldn’t be the only person out there to have experienced this problem, I decided to write up a how-to document, available at .