If you have YACCS comments from a Blogger-powered blog that you would like to import into Movable Type (and if your server runs PHP, since I don’t have Perl version of the script written yet), read on…
Before I started using Movable Type, I noticed that MT blogs seemed to ping weblogs.com without actually having any new content quite often. Once I started using it myself, I realized that the problem was that MT pings every time you save a post with status “Publish”, even if you only saved it because you […]
Trying the blo.gs ping stuffed into MT.pm, where MT does its calls to MT::XMLRPC, instead. Perhaps it will be better behaved there. I would have liked to redo the whole ping subroutine, since it currently dies on the first error (say, pinging weblogs.com returns an error: you don’t get to ping anything else, including the […]
How to ping both weblogs.com and blo.gs when you publish from Movable Type (note that I’m assuming that you installed Movable Type in a directory named /mt/): Edit /mt/lib/MT/App/CMS.pm Find the line that reads $app->ping(Blog => $blog) or die $app->errstr; Insert a new line immediately after that, that reads: MT::XMLRPC->ping_update(‘weblogUpdates.ping’, $blog, ‘http://ping.blo.gs’) or die MT::XMLRPC->errstr; […]