SimpleLink

A Movable Type Plugin

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System Requierements

This plugin require Movable Type installed and running well on your system.

 

Overview

This plugin will enable you to insert list of URLs to be displayed on your blog. Whenever you need to modify the list, just edit it from plugin settings, and then regenerate the files.

 

Download & Installation

Please download the script from http://www.bengkelprogram.com/download-SimpleLink.pl, then enter your Movable Type plugin directory. Usually the location is here:

/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/

Create new directory SimpleLink, so it will be:

/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/SimpleLink

then upload the script on there.

 

Plugin Settings

To modify the plugin settings, login to your Movable Type, and go to Setting Plugins menu (Main Menu > [Blog Name] > Plugin Settings). This Plugin is Blog Level Plugin, the setting is placed on each Blog. On the right side of SimpleLink items, please click the Show Settings link.

List of Links:
Here is the list of URLs will be stored. The items is specified on one line. The format is:
<URL> [separator] <TITLE> [separator] <TEXT>

Example: http://www.mahesajenar.com;Aryo Sanjaya's Blog;Aryo Sanjaya

Separator:
Specify the character used to separate between fields. The default character is ; (semicolon)

Link Format:
HTML tag that used to display the link. Default value is List Tag <li></li>, that require you to add <ul> and </ul> before and after this Tag.

You must understand HTML tag if you want to alter this format.

 

Tag Usage

After the plugin settings is completed, you may insert the SimpleLink tag on to your template. Just put <$MTSimpleLink$> on your HTML template, and whenever the blog is generated, this tag will be replaced with list of URLs.

By default, you need to specify List Open Tag to enclose SimpleLink Tag. For example:

<ul>
    <$MTSimpleLink$>
</ul>

 

Version History

Version 1.0 (12/01/2005)

Contact Information

You may send question or any comments to:

Aryo Sanjaya, aryo.sanjaya@gmail.com

http://www.bengkelprogram.com/ or http://www.mahesajenar.com/