Looking for how to add word counts to my RSS, I ran across Anders Jacobsen's Optimizing Movable Type series. (I assume My Movable Type Installation is article #1.) Still left to do, in no particular order:
- Word counts in RSS feeds.
- Link RSS feeds somewhere, since I have three of them.
- Appropriate meta tags for various pages.
- Fullscreen calendars for archives (mainly doing an appropriate stylesheet).
- Figure the extended entry problem: some pages sometimes showed the "Read more" link even if there wasn't any extended entry to display.
- Redirect
/blog/rss.xmlto/weblog/index.xml. - Redirect
/stapler/markpasc.xmlto/weblog/index91.xml. - Publish all the archives.
- Redirect
/blog/year/month/day.htmlto the appropriate URL under/weblog. I won't know what that is until I have all the archives configured how I want. - Some referrer script. andersja uses Stephen Downes' referrer script but it uses a JavaScript include thing.
- Some manner of todo sidebar list.
- An "on this day" post. I don't want to link to the weblog archives for all the stuff on this day; I'd rather include one whole item, kind of like I did last time. It'd be set off in the page with particular CSS styling. Probably wouldn't put it in the RSS feed.
- A script or plugin to re-head headers in items. I'd like to be able to use
<h1/>and<h2/as appropriate in an item, then when the item is published in a page, have them changed automatically to the properly hierarchical<h4/>and<h5/>. - RSS for comments.
Better than Radio: republishing is file I/O, not network I/O. Worse than Radio: I forgot. But I had one really important thing in mind, honest. I can't really think of much I'll be missing, since I'll still be using Radio, though I'm not sure I'll be using it to post to MT. That remains to be seen.
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Does MT have an integrated aggregator similar to Radio (or reasonable workaround)?
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Not really; it has a plugin for fetching RSS, but as I understand it that’s only to do things like the feeds I have on the front page’s sidebar.