One more thing and I promise not to ask again for any more MT help.*
I'm trying to tweak my comments so if there are no comments it says something like "Please say something", and once someone has commented it changes to "Join the conversation" or some such.
I've found this MTEntryIfComments thingy but I have no idea how to implement this on my template. I experimented with it (I didn't inhale) but it didn't work at all. Any ideas?
Also I'm not quite sure what's going on over at Writer's Noose with Burger Queen but it's either brilliant or scary. Maybe both.
* for at least a week
I'm guessing brilliant. Though, even if brilliant it's still knda scary. Is Chuck our resident Andy Kaufman? Hmmm..
Posted by Tuning Spork at October 30, 2003 04:27 AMI emailed that Allan (who asked Chuck to email him about prosecuting BQ) to let him know he was taking the whole thing WAY too seriously and the email addy was a fake, which makes me wonder if Allan is just another character in this interesting drama...
Posted by Susie at October 30, 2003 05:44 AMNorbizness has that working on his blog. I'll ask him about it. I wondered, but never went to the trouble of actually finding out.
Also, Wizbang Tech has lots of neat little tricks and tweaks, as well as links to other guru's online.
Both of these are on my blogroll.
Posted by Ted at October 30, 2003 10:32 AMOn Discourse.net, Froomkin has it where it is a different word for each number of posts 1-10. It's pretty neat. I'm pretty sure he uses MT, but he might have some special plugin or something.
Posted by Daniel at October 30, 2003 01:56 PMOk, I asked Norbizness about his rotating comment line, and he said it's a feature of Haloscan that you can set. I think Haloscan is a kind of blogging software like Moveable Type.
Posted by Ted at October 31, 2003 02:04 AMMTEntryIfComments requires a plugin in which we don't currently have plugged in.
Which is why it doesn't work.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 31, 2003 03:43 AMSimon,
You need to edit your main index template and add this block where your comments link is:
Come on, say something!
Join the conversation
So, for example, with a default MT Main Index Template,
| ?entry_id=" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments ()
becomes
If you need more help, e-mail me.
Posted by David at October 31, 2003 03:43 AMOops, you might want to delete my previous comment. I forgot to escape all the HTML tags. Duh.
What I meant to say was,
<MTEntryIfAllowComments>
| <a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>?entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Commen
</MTEntryIfAllowComments>
becomes
<MTEntryIfAllowComments>
| <a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>?entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">
<MTEntryIfComments count_equals="0">Be the first to comment</MTEntryIfComments>
<MTEntryIfComments count_greater_than="1">Join the conversation</MTEntryIfComments> </a>
</MTEntryIfAllowComments>
Ooops, again. Just read Pixy's last comment.
Yeah. I'm gonna shut up now.
Posted by David at October 31, 2003 04:04 AMUmmm, Pixy, old mate, big pal, illustrious leader (insert slurping noise here). I know your computer is in the middle of complete meltdown...but any chance we can chuck that old MTEntryIfComments plugin dubilacky whatchit into the supercomputer sometime?
Posted by Simon at October 31, 2003 05:02 AMI'll take a look. Some MT plugins are very easy to install, and if this is one of those, I'll give it a whirl.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 31, 2003 05:45 AMThanks Pixy. My next child could well end up being called Pixy Misa if this works. Maybe.
Not sure how Mrs M would take it, though.
Posted by Simon at October 31, 2003 05:49 AM