Help with iMT iPhone Plugin

We ran into the same issue at LA Weekly after our users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0, and fixed it with two simple edits to the plugin's CSS:

Open the file /mt-static/plugins/iMT/css/iphone.css and skip down to line 398.

Replace these two style declarations:

.menu a {
    overflow: hidden;
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 0 14px 12px 0;
    width: 62px;
    height: 90px;
    color: #999;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.menu img {
    display: block;
    width: 62px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

...with these two, which change the first line and add one other:

.menu a, .menu li {
    overflow: hidden;
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 0 14px 12px 0;
    width: 62px;
    height: 90px;
    color: #999;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.menu img {
    display: block;
    width: 62px;
    height: 62px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

Upload the new version of the file, reload MT on the iPhone, and you should be all set.

Awesome that did the trick. Thank you!

Thanks - that worked for me too!

I finally got the iPhone so I can use iMT, but I am having some difficulty placing the files on my server and then accessing the proper link.

1. Drop the files included with this plugin into your Movable Type
directory (under the mt-static/plugins/iMT, plugins/iMT locations).

There are two folders: "mt-static" and "plugins" with a META.yml file. Within the mt-static folder, plugins/iMT -- css, images, js. Within the plugins folder, iMT -- tmpl, and iMT PL file.

Are all these files supposed to go in the mt-static/plugins/iMT folder? Where does the META.yml file go?

Once installed, you can access your Movable Type installation from your
iPhone or iPod touch and it should display the new user interface
automatically. No other configuration is required.

I suspect accessing the same link on my iPhone will launch the customized version of MT. Right now, I still log in to the regular screen? It is probably because my files aren't on the server right. Please advise. Thank you in advance!

I'm also looking for some basic install/access help. The documentation on the plugin is terse at best, but I thought I understood what it was requiring (install in both mt-static and cgi/mt/plugin directories), but shouldn't it at least appear as a plugin within the MT (4.25) admin screen? It does not, and thus I am not sure how to even access this tool from within MT or the iPhone (what iPhone app, if any, is used for this?). Any help for us nOObs would be greatly appreciated.

As always, THANKS!
mongip

Please disregard the prior appeal. I found that the interface exists via the web interface rather than an app. Still tinkering with the possibility/obstacles of photo uploads. Seems like there's no smooth/quick way to accomplish this (an entry and a photo taken from the iPhone) in a single submit event. Somebody REALLY needs to come up with an iPhone app specifically for MT users. (There's already a TypePad app, so maybe this is not too far off.)

mongip

Wow many thanks!

.....but I thought I understood what it was requiring (install in both mt-static and cgi/mt/plugin directories), but shouldn't it at least appear as a plugin within the MT (4.25) admin screen? It does not, and thus I am not sure how to even access this tool.....

Same here I cant get this plugin to show up in the admin panel