Lloyd Nebres had a great idea, to take your weblog’s temperature by rating each day’s posts by whether you were hot or not, and then displaying a calendar view with colored dots that show at a glance how you were, or at least how you blogged, over the course of a month. Phil Ulrich took […]
From Kalsey Consulting Group and MT Plugin Foundry, a related entries plugin which gives you a container tag for “entries in the same category as this one” that you can use in all sorts of ways (Adam’s example is a list of the most recent three entries in the same category, displayed on an individual […]
Just in case I need this for something again, since I’m sure to lose it in the Movable Type forum: a plugin to keep Google from indexing blank comments. Make a copy of mt-comments.cgi, name it mt-nocomments.cgi, and don’t forget to chmod it 755. Download CommentSwap.zip, unzip it, and upload CommentSwap.pl to your mt/plugins directory. […]
Per an email question (and so I don’t forget where it is), if you are using MT-Search and mySQL in MT 2.2, you have to make one little change in mt-search.cgi to get it to work. <update>When the urls for the MT forum change once again, breaking my newly-changed link, the fix is also listed […]
You know how when you were a kid, and you had to clean your room on a sunny day when you would rather be outside, so you just cleaned it by stuffing everything under the bed or in the closet, where Mom wouldn’t see it? After all, if she doesn’t see it, she doesn’t have […]
Inspired by Morbus’s easy hack to give anonymous commenters a “[No Author]” name in the “Recent comments” box on the blog editing page, I decided to just name them “Anonymous” (which also gets rid of the rather strange “Posted by: on June 22, 2002” in the comment byline). In your mt directory, in lib/MT/App/Comments.pm, look […]
Update: this hack is included in Movable Type 2.6, so you don’t need to do it yourself anymore. While it’s not the truly smart convert line breaks I really want, I hacked in a smart-enough to suit me version that’s only moderately slow. The biggest drawback is that my version doesn’t convert line breaks inside […]
As Tobias notes, an RSS feed of the last 20 comments on any post can be a bit noisy, and as I’m beginning to notice from subscribing to the EmptyBottle comments feed, comments tend to need context even more than weblog posts. Right now, while I remember the post that got the comment, I know […]
The other day, I reminded myself that I liked the idea of an RSS comment feed, so that you wouldn’t have to keep checking back to see whether someone had replied to your comment on someone else’s blog. Today I followed a link from scripting.com about namespaces in RSS 0.9x (okay, I don’t really have […]
How to import your dotcomments comments from a Blogger-powered blog into Movable Type, in roughly seventeen moderately easy steps… (Essentially the same as YACCS to Movable Type, so if you’ve seen that, there’s no point in reading further unless you actually plan on using it.)