Links Directory Plugin

After you have 200+ entries in your blog, you may have either too many posts in a single category or too many categories for your reader. Gossamer Threads’ Links 2.0 is a great tool to build Yahoo! style directory. This Links Directory plugin helps you to integrate your Links 2.0 directory into your MovableType site. You can put the directory paths and a better related entry that is more specific to the topic.

Download You can get Links Directory by downloading LinksDirectory.zip.

Installation After you download and unzip the file, find LinksDirectory.pl file. Follow the readme.txt in the zip file to configure the LinksDirectory. Since the plugin needs to know the location of the Links 2.0 database (links.db file), do specify it before you send it out your FTP server.

FTP to your site and and

Create a directory there called plugins if there isn’t one already.

Copy RelatedEntries.pl to the plugins directory and set the permissions to 755.

Using Related Entries. Once you’ve installed Related Entries, using it is as simple as placing a new Movable Type tag in your template.

The tag is a container tag. It requires an opening and closing tag, just like the built-in MTEntries tag. Related Entries only works in an individual archive template.

To insert related entries into your individual archives, put the MTRelatedEntries container in your template, and then put an MTEntries tag block inside of it.

Example:

<$MTEntryDate format="%b %d, %Y"$>

License. Like our other freeware, this plugin is released under the open-source MIT License. In plain English, that means you can do whatever you want with the software, including modifying it, selling it, or eating it, but we’re not responsible for anything that goes wrong.

Revision History

1.0 - July 6, 2002

Initial release.

1.1 - July 8, 2002

(New) If Related Entries is used outside your individual archives, you are now warned when you try to rebuild.