Great work on this plugin!

FYI, on my system using the exclude_blogs and lastn attributes together within an MTGlobalComments tag causes the lastn attribute to be disregarded.

It seems that GlobalCategories only shows categories that have posts. Am I missing something? I’d like to have it show all the categories, not just ones with posts.

The behavior is the same as MTCategories. If you want to see all categories, you need to specify a show_empty=1 attribute.

Is there an equivalent of MTGlobalAuthorEntryCount ? It would be a godsend :)

I guess I should say why. I have a page listing all authors of a multi-author blog, and I want to shwo the total # of posts for each author. Thanks! I started to try the MTTagInvoke plugin, but then I realized that MTGlobal doesn’t support teh ‘author’. um, object. Is that right?

Hi, I get this error on rebuild: MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x82f95dc) Use of uninitialized value at /home/sites/site4/web/mt/plugins/GlobalListings.pl line 204.

running MT 2.661 on Mysql

here’s the relevant part of my template:
<MTGlobalEntries>
<MTGlobalObjects include_blogs=”1,2,3,4”>

<MTIfGlobalBlog>

(some MTentry tags)

</MTIfGlobalBlog>

<MTIfNotGlobalBlog>

(some other MTentry tags)

</MTIfNotGlobalBlog>
</MTGlobalObjects>
</MTGlobalEntries>

thanks, great work.

Also, I linked 2 weblog’s (same MT install, diff folders) main index templates containing <MTGlobal…> tags to a single template, and when I update either, it does not rebuild the other’s index.html. The template link works since I make changes in one and it reflects in the other. Any hints?

I love Global Entries! I use it at Telegraph and X-POLLEN already as well as in most of my other sites to make in-house syndicated feeds.

Now I want to aggregrate all the posts to about six different blogs on my server but only if they are posted to a category called “foo.” (All the relevant blogs have an identically named foo category.)

I see that MTGlobalEntries doesn’t support category=”” and I don’t think MTGlobalCategories works the way I was thinking of.

Do you have any suggestions to implement what I want to do, or workarounds? Thanks!

I second xian that it would be tremendous if there was support for categories in MTGlobalEntries. That would make this very worthwhile for me. I confess to have no idea if that would be too diffilcult. Thanks for this plugin.

This seems like I must be missing this, but I’d like a way to have each entry on the page id blog it is coming from.

If there were a tag for this, I could have it show up as text, or use it to make different CSS classes and have them show differently through CSS… but it seems like I’m missing it. Is there no (this entry belongs to the weblog xxxxxx) or even (this entry belongs to blog_id # )???

Never mind, I found it. I can use

Sorry about that.

um, that shoulda been <$MTBlogName$>

Does this work with MT 3.1?

Thank you for your nice plugin!

But I have a problem that “$MTEntryModifiedDate” tag is not working between “MTGlobalEntries” and “/MTGlobalEntries”.

The “$MTEntryModifiedDate” tag shows the created date such as “$MTEntryDate” in this case.

Do you have any answer that I can show the correct date?

MT is 3.151-ja, your plugin is Global Listings 2.0.2.

I fixed it and put a diff with no warranty.

@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
return _global_item(‘Entry’, $ctx, $args, sub { {
EntryIfExtended => $_[0]->text_more ? 1 : 0,
EntryIfAllowComments => $_[0]->allow_comments,
+ EntryIfCommentsOpen => $_[0]->allow_comments &&
+ $_[0]->allow_comments eq ‘1’,
EntryIfAllowPings => $_[0]->allow_pings,
}});
});
@@ -221,6 +223,7 @@
for my $e (@entries) {
local $ctx->{__stash}{entry} = $e;
local $ctx->{current_timestamp} = $e->created_on;
+ local $ctx->{modification_timestamp} = $e->modified_on;
my $this_day = substr $e->created_on, 0, 8;
my $next_day = $this_day;
my $footer = 0;
@@ -235,13 +238,15 @@
local $ctx->{__stash}{blog} = $blog;
local $ctx->{__stash}{blog_id} = $blog->id;
MT::ConfigMgr->instance->NoPlacementCache(1) unless $e->blog_id == $blog_id;
-
+ my $allow_comments ||= 0;
my $out = $builder->build($ctx, $tok, {
%$cond,
DateHeader => ($this_day ne $last_day),
DateFooter => $footer,
EntryIfExtended => $e->text_more ? 1 : 0,
EntryIfAllowComments => $e->allow_comments,
+ EntryIfCommentsOpen => $e->allow_comments &&
+ $e->allow_comments eq ‘1’,
EntryIfAllowPings => $e->allow_pings,
EntriesHeader => !$i,
EntriesFooter => !defined $entries[$i+1],

Thanks!
This ia just I am looking for! Cool plugin!

is there a way to Specifies the BlogID for the MTGlobalComment tag?

CommentIDs are already global, so it doesn’t make sense to need to specify a BlogID for the MTGlobalComment tag. Or is there something else you’re trying to do?

This plugin is great—except that it is unfortunately showing *all* comments across blogs, instead of just the comments that have been approved! The code I’m using is below:

		[div id="blog-comments"]
			[h2]Recent Comments[/h2]
			[MTGlobalComments lastn="6" include_blogs=”2,4,5,6,7,8,10”]
	  		[h3][MTCommentDate format="%B %e, %Y"] at [MTCommentDate format="%I:%M %p"][/h3]
	  		[MTCommentEntry][h4][a href="[$MTEntryPermalink$]"][$MTEntryTitle encode_ampersands="1"$][/a][/h4][/MTCommentEntry]
	  		[p][span class="user"][MTCommentAuthor default="Anonymous"]:[/span] "[MTCommentBody convert_breaks="0" formatted_words="20" remove_html="1" encode_ampersands="1"]"[/p]
			[/MTGlobalComments]
		[/div]

As I said, this code is showing all comments, rather than all *approved* comments, which is what I want. Ideas for code modification or a fix to this otherwise-great plugin, please?

This plugin was written for MT 2.6 which didn’t have comment moderation. However, changing it to only list approved comments in MT 3.x is simple.

In GlobalListings.pl, replace the line 281 which should look like this:

	my (%args, %terms);

with the following two lines:

	my (%args, %terms);
	$terms{visible} = 1;

You may also want to fix the MTGlobalCommentsCount tag to only count approved comments.
Replace line 105:

    return _global_count($_[0], $_[1], 'MT::Comment');

with the following:

    return _global_count($_[0], $_[1], 'MT::Comment', { visible => 1 });

I’ll try to fix these in the next official release.