Tired of the comment count on your Movable Type blog reading “0 comments… 1 comments… 2 comments”?
I’ve found a way around this with Brad Choate’s PerlScript plugin for MT. This plugin allows you to write Perl code directly into your templates, where it will be executed at compile time to perform whatever actions or alterations you specified. With Perl’s powerful string-manipulation capabilities, the possibilities are endless.
I’ve just combined the comments on and trackbacks to my entries into one list (as it should be) using the SimpleComments plugin from Adam Kalsey.
This plugin is dead simple to use. For example, the code for my comments and trackbacks now goes like this:
<MTSimpleComments smarty_pants="1" safe_urls="1">
<MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback>
<div class=”blogbody”>
<p><a id=”t<$MTPingID$>”></a><$MTPingExcerpt$></p>
<p style=”font-style:italic”>Trackbacked from: <a href=”<$MTPingURL$>”><$MTPingTitle$></a> on <$MTPingBlogName$> at <$MTPingDate$></p>
</div><br />
</MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback>
<MTSimpleCommentIfComment>
<div class=”blogbody”>
<a id=”c<$MTCommentID$>”></a>
<p><$MTCommentBody$></p>
<p style=”font-style:italic”>Posted by: <$MTCommentAuthorLink show_email=”0″$> at <$MTCommentDate$></p>
</div><br />
</MTSimpleCommentIfComment>
</MTSimpleComments>
That’s all there is to it! Comments and trackback are also now counted together in the post info given for each entry using the <$MTSimpleCommentCount$> tag. Note that this will only work in Movable Type.
Career Inventory Test results:
Your type is: ENTP
(refferred to this test by Jen’s blog, source of much info and ammusement)
My friend Jen alerted me to an amusing poll on her blog. Go take this survey on the presidential candidates by the famously conservative American Family Association, and you may be surprised who’s in the lead.
