Does anyone know how to change the look of a post depending upon its category?
For example, I'd like to insert dated (or non-dated) yellow post-it-like posts containing poetry that are interspersed with (but different in font/background color/size from) my regular blog posts.
Much tx!
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Does anyone know how to change the look of a post depending upon its category?
For example, I'd like to insert dated (or non-dated) yellow post-it-like posts containing poetry that are interspersed with (but different in font/background color/size from) my regular blog posts.
Much tx!
For example, I'd like to insert dated (or non-dated) yellow post-it-like posts containing poetry that are interspersed with (but different in font/background color/size from) my regular blog posts.
Much tx!
Check out Brad Choat's Suplemental Category Tags Plugin.
Do plug-ins work w/ MT 2.0?
If I remember correctly, support for plugins wasn't added until 2.2. You will need to upgrade in order to use plugins.
I've been loath to take that bear on. The installation was difficult enough. I don't want to destablize things.
Well - it looks like you would only have one upgrade script to run (mt-upgrade21.cgi).
With an upgrade, the hardest part is just uploading all the new files and making sure they replace the old ones. You don't have to do anything to mt.cfg (unless they're are some new options available you'd like to avail yourself of - but there probably are, given how many versions have been released since 2.0).
Why not read the upgrade manual, and see what you think?
With an upgrade, the hardest part is just uploading all the new files and making sure they replace the old ones. You don't have to do anything to mt.cfg (unless they're are some new options available you'd like to avail yourself of - but there probably are, given how many versions have been released since 2.0).
Why not read the upgrade manual, and see what you think?
I appreciate the encouragement, and it is tempting. However, I'm not sure I remember all the files that I or my host modified. For example:
1- i customized the notification email template so that it has a certain appearance.
2- my host customized the file that controls how the notifications are sent so as to accomodate certain anti-spam constraints.
3- i customized the 'email this post' file so that it sends me a notification when a user emails a post
4 - hmm...oh yes, i also added mt search somewhere and modified the search template
Do you know the names of these files and where they are located?
1- i customized the notification email template so that it has a certain appearance.
2- my host customized the file that controls how the notifications are sent so as to accomodate certain anti-spam constraints.
3- i customized the 'email this post' file so that it sends me a notification when a user emails a post
4 - hmm...oh yes, i also added mt search somewhere and modified the search template
Do you know the names of these files and where they are located?
It sounds like 1 and 2 are probably in the send_notify function of lib/MT/App/CMS.pm - are you fairly capable of comparing old code to new to see what they may have changed?
Number 3, that sounds like mt-send-entry.cgi, unless you're using David Gagne's popup version.
Number 3, that sounds like mt-send-entry.cgi, unless you're using David Gagne's popup version.
why not put a div around the post with a definition based on category
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
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<Div class="postbody_<$mtcategory$>">
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
i'm not a coder, but i am technical. searching for known code is alot easier than comparing two long streams of spaghetti code. can you suggest any keywords for me to search on to narrow it down in lib/MT/App/CMS.pm and mt-send-entry.cgi?
regarding 4, the documentations says:
i'm not in love w/ how my search template came out, but i worked my banner logo in (somehow), i don't really know how to replicate that success, and i'm also nervous about losing all search functionality. is the 2.61 MT search implementation easy to link up to the html in my index template, and easy to customize appearance wise?
regarding 4, the documentations says:
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if you have modified your search templates in the search_templates directory, do NOT upload the search_templates directory from the upgrade distribution; doing so will overwrite your search templates.
i'm not in love w/ how my search template came out, but i worked my banner logo in (somehow), i don't really know how to replicate that success, and i'm also nervous about losing all search functionality. is the 2.61 MT search implementation easy to link up to the html in my index template, and easy to customize appearance wise?
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why not put a div around the post with a definition based on category
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
CODE
<Div class="postbody_<$mtcategory$>">
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
Well, yes - that's the easy way. ;)
But - you might want to 1) use a different tag and 2) pay attention to capitalization:
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<div class="postbody_<$MTEntryCategory$>">
edb - in CMS.pm, search for "send_notify". In mt-send-entry, I'm not sure what code you modified, but it's a pretty small file.
Just don't upload the new search_templates/default.tmpl - I never do, I just open it in a text editor and see if I see anything "new" I might want to integrate in my current one.
Just don't upload the new search_templates/default.tmpl - I never do, I just open it in a text editor and see if I see anything "new" I might want to integrate in my current one.
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why not put a div around the post with a definition based on category
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
CODE
<Div class="postbody_<$mtcategory$>">
Then set up the classes in your css and Bob's your uncle...
Well, yes - that's the easy way. Â
But - you might want to 1) use a different tag and 2) pay attention to capitalization:
CODE
<div class="postbody_<$MTEntryCategory$>">
I suppose you could do it that way, if you wanted it to, you know, work. Sorry I dashed it off without proofing it, but dinner was in the oven...
Thanks for the correction...
It's good that I keep old emails: this is a communication from my host that explains what he did to modify the mt notification system so that it worked w/ interland host
not to be too thick, but how do you parse that in english?
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You may want to mention my fix to Movable Type so that they can update their product accordingly.
The location of the module in your account is:
cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/Mail.pm
I changed the following line:
exec $sm_loc, "-t" or
to:
exec $sm_loc, ("-f $hdrs->{From}", "-t") or
This change is on line 52 of the code. This will correctly create a From header in the mail envelope.
Another problem with the mt.cgi program was caused by invalid mail addresses being included in the notification database. These addresses were entries such as "europe", and "demographic". Such entries caused sendmail to complain and spit out unexpected output, eventually causing the mt.cgi program to fail. Simple error checking to ensure valid email address syntax could easily prevent this error from occuring in the future.
If there is anything else I can do to further assist you with this matter, please feel free to re-open this ticket.
Thank you for supporting Interland. We value your continued business.
- Deven
Deven Kampenhout
Product Engineering
Interland, Inc.
The location of the module in your account is:
cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/Mail.pm
I changed the following line:
exec $sm_loc, "-t" or
to:
exec $sm_loc, ("-f $hdrs->{From}", "-t") or
This change is on line 52 of the code. This will correctly create a From header in the mail envelope.
Another problem with the mt.cgi program was caused by invalid mail addresses being included in the notification database. These addresses were entries such as "europe", and "demographic". Such entries caused sendmail to complain and spit out unexpected output, eventually causing the mt.cgi program to fail. Simple error checking to ensure valid email address syntax could easily prevent this error from occuring in the future.
If there is anything else I can do to further assist you with this matter, please feel free to re-open this ticket.
Thank you for supporting Interland. We value your continued business.
- Deven
Deven Kampenhout
Product Engineering
Interland, Inc.
not to be too thick, but how do you parse that in english?
Okay, I found the mail file and changed the line!
I now remember that I changed the notification email subject line to show the name of the post. Would you know where that file is located?
Again - in lib/MT/App/CMS.pm - the send_notify function.
But that enhancement was already made to later versions of MT, so hacking it shouldn't be necessary.
But that enhancement was already made to later versions of MT, so hacking it shouldn't be necessary.
Okay! Notsithstanding having lost the category information in my edit posts screen, it went very well. Now, what's the easiest way to inset post-it note-like interuptions (with poetry) between my normal daily postings? I can do the poetry, and create a separet poetry category. I just have no idea how to get such categorized postings inserted into the stream of things. Many thanks for the inspiration!
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