I am using MT4 to manage a website, as a CMS. I am linking all templates to some common files in the base blog. I am also publishing static pages rather than running dynamic.
Must Have:
I would love to be able to publish all blogs in my installation, and prioritize the order in which they get published.
Power Option for down the road:
I'd love to be able to tie it into a chron job so that we can have nightly updates to our website without users having to push a button to publish (again, we're choosing to publish hard files for many reasons). The system would just update at 2:00am, or something like that.
Full Version: One Click Publishing (with Priority/order)
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 7 2007, 11:59 PM) 
I would love to be able to publish all blogs in my installation, and prioritize the order in which they get published.
I'm not sure I understand what this means or maybe what you're after. Why does it matter what order the blogs publish in?
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 7 2007, 11:59 PM)
I'd love to be able to tie it into a chron job so that we can have nightly updates to our website without users having to push a button to publish (again, we're choosing to publish hard files for many reasons). The system would just update at 2:00am, or something like that.
Is there a reason this wouldn't work with just scheduling everything, and then setting the usual cron job that points at run-periodic-tasks to only run at 2AM?
If I am having all templates share a common features with one blog, such as a menu and a footer, then that blog must be published first for the updates to take effect across all blogs. And regardless of this (because the cure would just be to publish twice), I still can't figure out a one click option for just publishing all 5 or 8 blogs. Did I miss this, or is it somewhere hidden in MT4?
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 8 2007, 11:36 AM)
If I am having all templates share a common features with one blog, such as a menu and a footer, then that blog must be published first for the updates to take effect across all blogs.
These shared bits are includes? And how are you including them? Via the server(SSI/PHP/whatever pulling in files) or with MTInclude tags?
If you're using MTInclude tags, I can see your problem, though I'd say the real solution is to use file includes instead, for several reasons: this problem, rebuild efficiency, etc.
It's an interesting question, but unfortunately no, I'm not aware of anything that lets you specifically say that blogA will rebuild before blogB does. You might be able to fake this with some creative use of MultiBlog's build triggers.
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 8 2007, 11:36 AM)
And regardless of this (because the cure would just be to publish twice), I still can't figure out a one click option for just publishing all 5 or 8 blogs. Did I miss this, or is it somewhere hidden in MT4?
PowerRebuild did this, but hasn't been released for MT4(yet?) You should contact Arvind and see if he has any plans.
QUOTE (Su- @ Oct 8 2007, 06:21 PM)
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 8 2007, 11:36 AM)
If I am having all templates share a common features with one blog, such as a menu and a footer, then that blog must be published first for the updates to take effect across all blogs.
These shared bits are includes? And how are you including them? Via the server(SSI/PHP/whatever pulling in files) or with MTInclude tags?
If you're using MTInclude tags, I can see your problem, though I'd say the real solution is to use file includes instead, for several reasons: this problem, rebuild efficiency, etc.
It's an interesting question, but unfortunately no, I'm not aware of anything that lets you specifically say that blogA will rebuild before blogB does. You might be able to fake this with some creative use of MultiBlog's build triggers.
QUOTE (innerfire @ Oct 8 2007, 11:36 AM)
And regardless of this (because the cure would just be to publish twice), I still can't figure out a one click option for just publishing all 5 or 8 blogs. Did I miss this, or is it somewhere hidden in MT4?
PowerRebuild did this, but hasn't been released for MT4(yet?) You should contact Arvind and see if he has any plans.
I'm using: <$mt:include module="menu" blog_id="1"$> . Thanks for the lead on PowerRebuild. I'll go knock on that door now.
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