I'm building an MT weblog based on a mailing list. Each of the mailing list participants posts in a single topic. I'm using categories for the topics: displaying each of the threads as a category archive page.

I want the front page of the site to display all entries (or, the last 50, for example), for whichever category has been most recently filled in.

Hopefully I can rig up something with basic MT tags. I suspect that some kind soul will suggest that I try PHP - sadly, that's not an option here. I'm on a server with heavy security, and I don't have FTP access to install plug-ins.

Maybe I'll just have to manually change the front page to sort by a specific category each time I update the site.

Thanks!

I don't know that what I have to offer will be a suitable solution, but maybe it'll give you a starting point to get to what you want? ^_^

I have my bookmarks page set up listing all categories, and displaying the last 5 links posted in each one. Next to the archive title is a link to the archive page, with a list of all the links in that category.



That's the code used, stripped of all CSS formatting.

If at some point in the future you can use PHP or plugins, this thread has a way of sorting categories by most recently updated.

I hope this helps!