I am in process of planning out a new site. It'll be using MT and will have 3 blogs... one a journal and one a photo blog updated daily and a 3rd, another gallery (not updated daily).

What I am trying to find out is if on the main page I can have a column on the left with the 5 most recent photo blog pictures and the column on the right the last post made in the journal. The 3rd blog, the gallery will initally not be appearing on the main index page but might in the future.

I've seen a few other posts covering similar topics but they all have gone off a varying tangents. This plugin (http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/otherblog.php) was recommended in one topic as a possible solution. Is this likely to be the case?

Ideally the index page will reside in the journal blog, I don't know if this is possible and whether or not I am best to put the index page in the root directory of the site. My php and mysql is limited!

Any advice or suggestions most welcomed.

Thanks
Euan

Yes, that's all do-able The MTOtherBlog plugin is a good way to do that. PHP is an even better way, because it updates without having to rebuild everything.

With the PHP method: In your photoblog, you could create a second Index Template that only has the MT tags (no HTML, HEAD, BODY or so on). Then on the Journal's Main Index Template, add a php include statement like this:

customizing the path to match yours and the output file of the photoblog's secondary template.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

Kristine

Kristine,

Thanks for the reply. It was most helpful. I've decided to learn a bit of php and mysql so I think I'll do that first then tackle this after. In no rush to get the site up.

Thanks again,

Euan