Ok, I have several blogs going. Does Otherblog allow me to a) update all blogs from one blog using categories, or b) does it do the opposite, i.e. allow entries of several blogs to appear on one blog's index (or both).

If a, I assume I will have to rebuild all the other blogs for the entries to appear. Does the MT rebuild plugin automate this multiple blog update process?

Thank you in advance for any help.

MTOtherBlog allows you to place the context of tags into the context of another blog id.

So you could include a posting listing from blog a on to blog b.

It does NOT rebuild blogs for you, you would need to do this manually. There is a plugin that can make this very simple:

http://www.pyrojection.com/rebuild.html

Then, what you can do is include in the templates where mtotherblog is getting information, something like this:



Basically, that says 'when rebuilding this template, also rebuild the Main Index and Side Menu Include in blog_id 1".

I have found this invaluable.

That siad, if you can, at any time you should use php or otherblog., There are times you can not (context sensitive information, interspersed entries) and times that you can. I use this becaues I have MTGlobalEntries compiling posts from 6 blogs onto my blog id 1, But if you just wnated say, a list of entries from another blog, a php include is much better and won't require this extra rebuilding step.

does that help?

From the Plugin Directory:

So you can make posts from multiple blogs appear on a single page. The posts/info will be separated out by which blog it is in. I think the answer to your question is b

Plugins do require rebuilding for the data to be changed, but the tips on Girlie's Link This Template to a File come in handy for this type of thing.

Kristine

Oh, sorry, we posted at the same time!

It's ok, more options can't hurt, can they?

thanks for your repsoneses. So just because I'm a little thick (and new to MT), there is not a plugin that would allow me to update all my blogs from a single 'primary' blog?

What kind of updating is it that you want to do?

if you can be more specific on what you wish to accomplish, you'll get much more help!

sorry I'll try and be more specific. Basically I have site that has multiple pages I need to update, each with a different layout, so I'm trying to use MT as more of a content management thing than a blog thing. I was hoping to be able to update all the pages from a single 'master' blog instead of having to go in and update each blog individually.

I want to be able to make an entry in the master blog, assign in a category, and have it show up in the index page of the other blog. So lets say I have set up the follwoing: master blog, blog a, blog b.

I want to be able to make an entry in the master blog, assign it category b, and have it show up in blog b's index (not in the master blog's index). and the same for blog c.

I have autoupdating figured out using a cron job, I just need to know if there is a way to 'send' entries to other blogs via the category system. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks.

Do you want the posts to be intermixed, and sorted by date? Or do you just want seperate sections for the categories?

if the latter, you could just make multiple index templates with MTEntries category="blah" code, then php include that on to the proper weblogs indexes... that's the easiest, requires no extra rebuilding and is the most dynamic and easiest to maintain.

nope don't need any intermixing. I would like the individual category pages to have twelve entries (each page is updated monthy) then go to its own archive page (which now that I think about it might be a problem in itself huh?) Maybe I would be better off just going into each blog individually.

Thank you very much for your time. I was looking at your site and saw that you live in white plains. I grew up in chappaqua but I live in Oregon now. My sister and her husband just moved from wp to greenwich.

The best way to do this would be to set up an index template for each category,s uch that it said MTEntries="Blah" lastn="12"

with the informatin you want per entry (title, excerpt... whatever you want)

then, on the blog you want this shown on, just do a php include. I did that with a wcc club i was maintaining, its extremely straightforward. =)