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antiwesley
I just got MT installed tonight, (yay me!)
and I now I'm pondering the next step.

I want to integrate my MTBlog into my main index.html page.
Not the login, but the entries themselves, and have it
update whenever I enter new entries in, etc...

Does anyone have any pointers or places I can go look for information on how to do this?
(I looked for some time in the documentation and found nothing)

Thanks.
faf
If you dont want to paste your current template into MT directly, there are a few things you could do.

1. Use the Link template to a file (find in documentation)
This allows you to place a file in a location of your server that MT can reach. The file contains MT tags and any other content you want to show. When the template is saved it checks which version it newer (the one in the MT window or the one on file) then updates the other as needed. It then uses the Template to build the files

2. Create skeleton pages and use includes to pull them into your current page (you need php,asp or ssi)

Of course it is far easier to just copy your current template into MT, give it an appropriate output file and insert the tags where you want them.
krazee
Ah That's exactly what I want to do: Use SSI to pull only the entries+comments links into my homepage and leave the blog as a total on another page (withthe calendar and archives etc)

but even when I try to call the whole blog index I get and Error.
with virtual as well as file

What is the proper config and how can I call the entries only?
girlie
Without knowing the specific error you're getting, my guess is that you don't have the path right for the included file.
krazee
thanks I'll try that, I used a relative path maybe that was it.
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