Three nice MT enhancements
Mark discusses three ideas for MT that I’d really like to see. One written, one he is writing, one is currently still thoughtware.
First of all, he’s got a fix for SimpleComments so it doesn’t have to be in an entry.
Next, the FilterCategory plugin he is currently writing will be very useful indeed. I’m glad there are people out there that can write the thinks I want. I’m too lazy to invoke the LazyWeb.
Finally, an idea on trackback auto-discovery that I have thought about too.
One feature I would like would be less automatic TrackBack: I always find I’m accidentally sending pings somewhere I’d rather not, but I still don’t want to look up, copy, and paste the TB URL manually. I’d like MT to automatically fetch the TrackBack URLs, but then prompt if it should ping them. Kinda complicated UI, but that’s what I’d like.
Case in point. I don’t want to invoke the lazyweb, and I’m not going to link to it, just in case MT decides to ping it away. This happens quite a lot, and you find yourself trackbacking when you don’t, or even doing a double ping if you rebuild.
February 19th, 2003 at 16:25
Just having MT get the URLs automatically, then put them in the “URLs to ping” box as if pinging them errored, would work, I think. I’ll probably look at that when I get a chance, but that’d have to be an actual modification, not just a plugin.
February 20th, 2003 at 11:44
I’d like to see the list of “URLs to ping” have checkboxes so you can tick which ones to ping, rather than having to delete them from the box. If you rebuild an entry, then invariably the deleted URL will reappear in the box.
February 20th, 2003 at 23:52
Modified Recent Comments
The recent comments now include recent trackbacks as well, thanks to Mark Paschal as discussed here [blatent self reference to