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Edward Lane: Your site was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday. >> Comment made on:
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Jimi Latimer: Where's your blog roll? >>
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Tony Browning: Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work! >>
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Ritsjart: With so many problems listed as "Known Issues" in the Beta, I'm a bit scared to try it. Also, I can't find any information about upgrading existing blogs from 3.2 to 4. It would be nice if you has a couple of sentences to say about what's involved in upgrading existing blogs... what works and what doesn't. I have a lot of time/content investing in the 3 blogs I currently host with MT 3.2 and I need to know if migrating to 4.0 is going to a dream or a nightmare. >>
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Busy Boy: If you’re a good Web 2.0 person, you’ve probably been relentlessly tagging all your entries. You might even have a tag cloud so big it threatens to rain folksonomies. But shouldn’t there be something more useful you can do with your tags? How about linking to related entries? Here’s how we can do it in Movable Type, and without installing any extra plugins.
First, create a new Template Module named “Related” and type this code into the box:
">
Related Entries
It’s very important that when you type this in there are no line breaks within any of the containers. In theory, you should be able to use the strip_linefeeds attribute and not worry about line breaks, but I’ve not had any luck with that. In fact, it’s revealed a very strange bug. Rather than deal with bugs, we’ll just remove the line breaks ourselves.
Now save it and go to your Entry Archive template. Somewhere in there (if you’re using the default templates, right after would be a good choice) add this line:
Republish your blog and you should see a list of related entries on each individual entry page. Let’s take a closer look at our code and see what’s happening.
We don’t want to do any of this if the entry doesn’t have tags.
We store the ID of the current entry to use later.
Here, we’re using the container to output a list of tags from the current entry. The glue attribute specifies what text should be between multiple tags. So, if our entry is tagged with cats, pet food, and dogs, we’ll get this:
cats OR pet food OR dogs
And this will be stored in a variable we’ll use on the next line.
">
We’re using a container with the tags filter. This will limit the entries returned to only those that have at least one of the tags from the current entry. As we process each entry, we store its ID in a variable. We then use the conditional tag to compare the ID to the one we stored earlier. This allows us to filter out the current entry from the list we’re creating. If it’s different from the current entry we create a link to that entry and store it in a variable to use in the final output (which is only output if there is anything in that variable):
Related Entries
Now, this is not necessarily the best way to do related entries. There’s no “scoring” involved to determine which entries are the most related, we just assume they’re related if they have at least one tag in common. And if you’re publishing static files rather than publishing dynamically then old entries won’t have links to new entries unless you republish your entire blog. Still, it’s an easy way to link your entries, and it’s a good example of the complex things you can do with Movable Type variables. >>
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Cuttler: I dont have the know how to install Moveable Type blogging software myself, despite numerous efforts at following your installation instructions. I desparately need to use this software to get my website/blog up and running asap.
How do I get it installed?
Is there a service at Moveable Type that will do this for me - on my domain/web package from start to finish?
I am prepared to pay for this. If I upgrade to Business and buy the package will this solve my problem i.e. is ia full nstallation service offered within that?
any help or suggestions welcome.
thanks
Sherry >>
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May 27, 2004
Up and running: MovableType 3.0
Up and running: version 3.0 of Movable Type Publishing Platform. Having said that, apart from the fact that the installation/upgrading manual could be a little clearer om some points, I'll have to find out what the new release can do more. One good step forward is the possibility to delete comments in batches, and setting up rules voor registered comment authors. I'm sure a lot of bloggers are fed up now with spam comments, like porn or viagra advertisements. Last week I had an average of a hundred and fifty of those bloody things per day - posted by a moron who calls himself lipitor. Until 3.0D I had to delete them one by one before rebuilding the files, be it through the Movable Type user interface, or in PHPMyAdmin. I think there must be a query to delete all comments in MySQL if posted by a certain commenter, but as I am using MySQL itself not often enough, I haven't got a clue what kind of query.
Anyway, in the new comment filter there's a possibility to do so. You can list comments displayed to certain e-mail adresses, physical names, or ip-adresses. What's more, three different statuses can be attached to the comments: approved, pending approval, banned. And the possibuility to check or uncheck all comments before deleting, in rows from twenty or more. Beautiful!
From the same menu you can call lists of all comments - coming up with editing or deleting fields and buttons - from any commenter, all comments on any entry, all comments form a certain ip-adress, all comments by e-mail adress, if given by commenter.
What more can be done with 3.0, I'll have to check out later, but it looks good.
Posted by Leon at May 27, 2004 01:02 AM
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Your site was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday.
Posted by: Edward Lane at October 11, 2009 08:41 AM
Where's your blog roll?
Posted by: Jimi Latimer at September 27, 2009 03:52 AM
Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Tony Browning at September 24, 2009 07:56 AM
With so many problems listed as "Known Issues" in the Beta, I'm a bit scared to try it. Also, I can't find any information about upgrading existing blogs from 3.2 to 4. It would be nice if you has a couple of sentences to say about what's involved in upgrading existing blogs... what works and what doesn't. I have a lot of time/content investing in the 3 blogs I currently host with MT 3.2 and I need to know if migrating to 4.0 is going to a dream or a nightmare.
Posted by: Ritsjart at July 29, 2009 06:43 AM
If you’re a good Web 2.0 person, you’ve probably been relentlessly tagging all your entries. You might even have a tag cloud so big it threatens to rain folksonomies. But shouldn’t there be something more useful you can do with your tags? How about linking to related entries? Here’s how we can do it in Movable Type, and without installing any extra plugins.
First, create a new Template Module named “Related” and type this code into the box:
Related Entries
It’s very important that when you type this in there are no line breaks within any of the containers. In theory, you should be able to use the strip_linefeeds attribute and not worry about line breaks, but I’ve not had any luck with that. In fact, it’s revealed a very strange bug. Rather than deal with bugs, we’ll just remove the line breaks ourselves.
Now save it and go to your Entry Archive template. Somewhere in there (if you’re using the default templates, right after would be a good choice) add this line:
Republish your blog and you should see a list of related entries on each individual entry page. Let’s take a closer look at our code and see what’s happening.
We don’t want to do any of this if the entry doesn’t have tags.
We store the ID of the current entry to use later.
Here, we’re using the container to output a list of tags from the current entry. The glue attribute specifies what text should be between multiple tags. So, if our entry is tagged with cats, pet food, and dogs, we’ll get this:
cats OR pet food OR dogs
And this will be stored in a variable we’ll use on the next line.
We’re using a container with the tags filter. This will limit the entries returned to only those that have at least one of the tags from the current entry. As we process each entry, we store its ID in a variable. We then use the conditional tag to compare the ID to the one we stored earlier. This allows us to filter out the current entry from the list we’re creating. If it’s different from the current entry we create a link to that entry and store it in a variable to use in the final output (which is only output if there is anything in that variable):
Related Entries
Now, this is not necessarily the best way to do related entries. There’s no “scoring” involved to determine which entries are the most related, we just assume they’re related if they have at least one tag in common. And if you’re publishing static files rather than publishing dynamically then old entries won’t have links to new entries unless you republish your entire blog. Still, it’s an easy way to link your entries, and it’s a good example of the complex things you can do with Movable Type variables.
Posted by: Busy Boy at July 28, 2009 10:42 AM
I dont have the know how to install Moveable Type blogging software myself, despite numerous efforts at following your installation instructions. I desparately need to use this software to get my website/blog up and running asap.
How do I get it installed?
Is there a service at Moveable Type that will do this for me - on my domain/web package from start to finish?
I am prepared to pay for this. If I upgrade to Business and buy the package will this solve my problem i.e. is ia full nstallation service offered within that?
any help or suggestions welcome.
thanks
Sherry
Posted by: Cuttler at July 26, 2009 11:31 PM