Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog

MT Plugin Directory: Plugins Manager 0.1
Just installed this via Anil’s Links; it’s absolutely fantastic. One-click install and updating of MT plugins. It’s brilliant.

The template requires two MT plugins to be installed, LastModified and MTPerlScript. LastModified is needed since MT doesn’t let you extract the date an entry was last modified, and MTPerlScript is needed for time conversions to UTC, which is the preferred format for dates.
Mark’s template included a method for including full content from posts as escaped HTML in the content entity. As this is undergoing some political debate, I have left it in but it is not used in my current feed. I have also changed the number of entries within the feed from 5 to 15, to match how MT produces its RSS feed.
There’s a lot of comments in the template, so read over them and strip them out so your feed doesn’t bloat.
Above all else, feel free to reuse this however you’d like; I’d appreciate a trackback if you do, though.

Days off lead to lots of website editing. So here’s what’s new for today.
I have installed SimpleComments, to consolidate the trackbacks and the comments into one big happy bunch. Note that comments now say (x+n responses); left number is comments, right number is trackbacks. Also the javascript popup comments are gone and replaced with the permalink page.
Also on individual archive pages (which have gotten some other bits of reformatting), I’m finally putting my Google API key to good use and pulling back lists of related entries. This only happens for entries with keywords, which…aren’t many, at the moment. Oh well.
Finally, I’ve taken to adapting Mark Pilgrim’s n-Echo template (now that the little kink I found is gone) and now have an n-Echo 0.1 feed. Link is under the flag, way at the bottom of the sidebar.