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lobotomy

Dec 21 2002, 04:35 AM

Hi all, I have a personal blog and a blog that I use to list links (like logoflinks). The categories are named the same between the two. On the personal blog in the individual archive, I would like to point to the corresponding category archive in the links blog. TIA

medic119

Dec 21 2002, 04:51 AM

Can you use PHP? If so its pretty easy to just use an include to pull the page from one blog into the other blog.

Put this where you want the entry to go.

CODE

<?php include '/path/to/page' ?>

urbandyke

Dec 21 2002, 05:41 AM

Another option is to use the MTOtherBlog Plugin. I use it to incorporate updates on a different blog into my main page.

kadyellebee

Dec 21 2002, 09:40 AM

If you'd just like a link to that category index in the link-blog, then you might just want to use something like this:

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<a href="http://your-site.com/linkblog/archives/cat_<$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>.html"><$MTArchiveCategory$> Links</a>

That assumes the normal setup for the filenames, but would be the basic way to provide a link that you could customize for your own setup

Kristine

lobotomy

Dec 22 2002, 09:09 AM

Wonderful software and even better user community. Thanks all. I used the kadyellebee solution to perfection. Now to go give $$$ support to the Trott's.

kadyellebee

Dec 22 2002, 09:12 AM

Glad that we could help

Kristine

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