Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

At the top of each day's posts on the veiled4allah page is a little image representing the moon phase. This is made possible by the DateTags plugin. Among other things, this calculates the moon phase for each date. I then downloaded some image files representing the moon phases, named these after the values produced the the MTMoonPhase tag and call them in my template:

<img src="http://www.muhajabah.com/images/<$MTMoonPhase dirify="1"$>.png">

I placed this in the MTDateHeader container in my template so that it only shows up once a day, not with every post.

I also use the MTIfDaysOfWeek tags to print "Jumu'a mubarak" every Friday, and in the past I used the MTIfDateWithin and MTDaysFromNow tags together to produce a countdown to Ramadan, a "Today is the 1st day of Ramadan" type message, and Eid mubarak messages.

This can add a nice touch to your blog and you don't have to remember to post messages on the special day; once you set it up, it will appear automatically on the designated day.

I am looking to make fuller use of this plugin in the future, inshallah. It offers a tremendous amount of functionality.