Girlie's Tips and Tricks

Nick on dynamic archives by author

2006-02-03T20:16:03-06:00

Blimey - this looks cool, naturally I can't get it to work. How do I know if I have smarty? If I just copy and past the first code exactly as described, and I check "Enable dynamic building for this template" then try and enter the URL, there's nothing there: link So.... does this mean I'm missing smarty? Or do I have to build the thing somehow initially? There is obviously no such file as test.php so that URL naturally fails. Drat... I'm totally stumped!

raffaele on paginated dynamic index page with smarty

2006-01-06T07:21:21-06:00

Hi girlie, I have installed mt 3.2 with dynamic template. I have installed your instructions in category template and I got two problems: 1) It shows me all posts (13 posts), instead only the firts five; 2) If i do next I got the following error: SQL/DB Error -- [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'offset 5' at line 17] Since I am not a pc programmer, could you help me to understand where I am wrong? Thank you raffaele Italy

Kevin Aylward on dynamic archives by author

2005-12-27T16:04:20-06:00

When you say, author=girlie, which MT field is that - username or display name? Also, how are capitalization and spaces in the names handled?

fred on per-category individual entry archive templates

2005-12-19T08:53:40-06:00

It seems to work fine If I don't have any subcategories for my entry, but as soon as I have subcategories, it doesn't work anymore and returns an empty page. Any idea?

toddc on dynamic archives by author

2005-12-15T23:22:33-06:00

This is awesome! Just one thing: The list of posts generated by the author page doesn't link to the posts themselves. The list of post titles shows up great, but those titles all share the link to the author's individual page (the URL of the page the list appears on, actually) rather than going to the individual post. I used the exact code you gave in this great tutorial. Is there any trick I might try? Here's an example of what I'm talking about. All of the links on that page are the same. Any suggestions on how I can make them point to the individual posts? Thanks!

Matt Waters on dynamic archives by author

2005-12-14T14:57:13-06:00

Wow I must have stared at this page for 2 days until I finally figured out how to implement the solution it provided me. I am dense!! Thanks so much for providing this code!!!

Chas Waggins on notifications: single form for subscribe and unsubscribe

2005-10-05T22:34:00-06:00

When I use this code with 3.1.6 it adds the address to the notification list, but when I try to remove an address using the "unsubscribe" button I'm told that "The address name@dom.com was not subscribed." even thought it *is* on the list. Any ideas?

girlie on generate RSS feeds by category

2005-09-25T13:01:53-06:00

I just followed all the steps in 3.2 and they worked correctly for me - a file was generated for each category name, with an .xml extension. These steps are based on versions prior to 3.2 of course; for step 4, there's no specific field called "Archive File Template" in 3.2 now - it's "Archive File Path" under Archive Mappings on the Publishing settings page; and you have to select Custom... from the dropdown menu in that column for the new template you added, then paste the code there and SAVE.

arved on generate RSS feeds by category

2005-09-25T12:41:27-06:00

I just upgraded to MT 3.1/3.2 and noticed that 4 does not work anymore. The category name does not get expanded and i ended up with a file .xml on my harddisk. Any idea?

News Beak on notifications: single form for subscribe and unsubscribe

2005-08-31T16:14:54-06:00

Ok it continues to give me a The address "email addy here" was not subscribed. Not sure what to do there.