{"id":4745,"date":"2003-11-08T00:07:50","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T08:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/08\/4745\/"},"modified":"2003-11-08T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T08:07:50","slug":"mt-plugin-usage-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4745","title":{"rendered":"MT Plugin usage ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The utility of <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/mtamazon.php\">MTAmazon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/archiveyear.php\">ArchiveYear<\/a> is obvious (guess what &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/countdown.php\">Countdown<\/a>&#8221; does?).  But what about all these other, weirder <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/\">MT plugins<\/a> that are floating around?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/categoryfaceted.php\">CategoryFaceted<\/a> enables <a href=\"http:\/\/facetmap.com\/\">facet-based structures<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/filtercategories.php\">FilterCategories<\/a> allows us to exclude category when listing the categories.  What this is used for is listing the categories of a certain type (facet!) and not others.  For example, I have a &#8220;Link&#8221; category, which I use for my Daily Links bar, and a number (5? 6?) of Amazon categories.  Now I can reduce them to combinations of facets and have them archived in a more organised manner.<\/li>\n<li>I have ranted a lot about trying to make different look &#038; feels for postings of different categories.  I have implemented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeromachine.com\/archives\/000648.html\">crazy CSS hack<\/a> to solve this&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/categoryofarchive.php\">CategoryOfArchive<\/a> makes this process much much easier, and without the crazy use of CSS.  To take it one step further, I can now have <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/topic_icon.php\">Topic Icon<\/a>s for each posting, like they do on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a>, and even change the whole format of the individual postings on the main index pages themselves with the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/categoryheaderfooter.php\">CategoryHeaderFooter<\/a> which lets you define different macros depending on the category of the entry.  BWAHAHAHA!<\/li>\n<li>I needed <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/regex.php\">Regex<\/a> to complete my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mar.anomy.net\/entry\/2003\/06\/22\/17.15.00\/\">future-proofing<\/a>&#8220;, but I&#8217;m sure it will come in handy later.  I added in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/entrynumber.php\">EntryNumber<\/a> plugin for those on my system who just want vanilla, medium-grade future-proofing.<\/lI>\n<li>I am sick to death of <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/mtamazon.php\">MTAmazon<\/a> breaking my damn build process every time the Amazon site is a little slow.  So now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/exception.php\">Exception<\/a> to catch any problems and save the build.<\/lI>\n<li>&#8230;and speaking of things like MTAmazon, finally I can use MT tags insde the damn entry body that I&#8217;m typing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/process_tags.php\">Process Tags<\/a> plugin.  Actually you could put anything in an entry with this thing&#8230; including an entire additional generated blog.  But that would be dumb.  A more practical but no less insane idea would be to use this with the above-mentioned category filtering to generate meta-templates that would generate clusters of like postings, or in conjunction with the RSS templates to publish mini newspapers with self-changing content.  With enough of my friends&#8217; feeds I could have a giant blog and never write another article myself!<\/lI>\n<li>We just installed <a href=\"http:\/\/mt-plugins.org\/archives\/entry\/awstatsreferers.php\">AWStatsReferers<\/a> for the hell of it.  I seriously doubt I&#8217;ll be getting so many incoming links that I could make a dynamic list of the most recent ones, but sheeyah why not.<\/lI>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The utility of MTAmazon or ArchiveYear is obvious (guess what &#8220;Countdown&#8221; does?). But what about all these other, weirder MT plugins that are floating around? CategoryFaceted enables facet-based structures; FilterCategories allows us to exclude category when listing the categories. 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