I upgraded to MT 2.661 now, but I was not too sure about whether I wanted to use the new redirect "feature" for the MTCommentAuthorLink, so I wrote up this little plugin. Install it like any other plugin, and the MTCommentAuthorLink tag now takes a new argument, redirect. If set to 1, the redirect feature is used, otherwise, the old style behavior is used (I ripped the code directly out of MT 2.64).
Optional-Redirect v0.1
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David Raynes pone a nuestra disposición Optional Redirect, un plugin de MovableType que permite eligir si empleamos o no la... Read More
David Raynes' new Optional Redirect plugin adds a new attribute to <$MTCommentAuthorLink$> so that you can control whether it redirects or posts the URL as normal. Read More
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Thanks David, this is fantastic. :)
We shouldn't have NEEDED this plugin but we do and I thank you - now I can upgrade.
Thanks! I was just about to post a feature request in the MT forums for this exact feature. Thanks again.
Thanks! I was just about to post this exact feature request in the MT Forums, when I saw your post about this plugin. Thanks!
I was just about to hack this feature for myself. I'm glad to see it has already been done. Thanks!
I was just about to hack this feature for myself. I'm glad to see it has already been done. Thanks!
Thanks for saving me a round tuit. One little thing: in the non-redirect block, you've got a second "my($ctx, $args) = @_;".
am i the only person who is getting this error when i try to rebuild?
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An error occurred:
Undefined subroutine &MT::spam_protect called at /usr/www/users/sisyphus/cgi-bin/plugins/optional_redirect.pl line 40.
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i have three blogs; one if them has the comments in pup-up windows, and it rebuilds with no problem after installing this plug-in.
on the other two blogs, i have it configured to see the entire post with comments when someone clicks the 'comments (2)' link (basically i have replaced the opencomments tag with the permalink tag. on these two blogs i get the above error. thanks.
Hi, thanks for the great plugin! I also hate those redirects. However, although I see the target = "_blank" line in your plugin, I don't seem to have that functionality. When I click on a link in the popup or my individual archive, it still opens in the same window, not a new one.
Anyone out there know how to fix that easily?
For the spam_protect error: the best thing you can do is replace spam_protect="1" in your template with show_email="0" so you'll never show an email address. The "spam protection" is trivial to get around, and there probably isn't a single harvester left working that doesn't know how. But, if you really want to show email links, find the line
use MT::Util qw( remove_html );
and add spam_protect inside the parentheses, so you have
use MT::Util qw( remove_html spam_protect );
and the rebuild errors will stop.
Thanks Phil, that's great.
Thanks Phil, that's great.
Sorry to be a pain, but "install like a normal plug in" means nothing to me.
Is there a place to find instructions to install this?
geoffrey, just download and unzip the file, then upload the .pl file to your 'plugins' directory in your cgi-bin with your ftp application. if you don't already have a plugins directory you may have to create it. good luck.
i also have a question about rebuilding errors:
i have installed the optional-redirect plugin. when i rebuild my site by logging onto mt, i have no problems. however, i have a cron job to rebuild the site every six hours (for a feed that is included), and when that rebuild occurs, i get an email with this message:
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Cron $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/mt-rebuild.pl -mode=all -blog_id=2
"my" variable $ctx masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/home/sisyphus/public_html/cgi-bin/plugins/optional_redirect.pl line 26.
"my" variable $args masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/home/sisyphus/public_html/cgi-bin/plugins/optional_redirect.pl line 26.
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the site seems to look the same, but it is annoying to get this message 12 times a day (3 times every 6 hours...), and i wonder if it is a security or spam risk? thanks.
geoffrey, just download and unzip the file, then upload the .pl file to your 'plugins' directory in your cgi-bin with your ftp application. if you don't already have a plugins directory you may have to create it. good luck.
i also have a question about rebuilding errors:
i have installed the optional-redirect plugin. when i rebuild my site by logging onto mt, i have no problems. however, i have a cron job to rebuild the site every six hours (for a feed that is included), and when that rebuild occurs, i get an email with this message:
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Cron $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/mt-rebuild.pl -mode=all -blog_id=2
"my" variable $ctx masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/home/sisyphus/public_html/cgi-bin/plugins/optional_redirect.pl line 26.
"my" variable $args masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/home/sisyphus/public_html/cgi-bin/plugins/optional_redirect.pl line 26.
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the site seems to look the same, but it is annoying to get this message 12 times a day (3 times every 6 hours...), and i wonder if it is a security or spam risk? thanks.
Geoffrey, within your installation folder (usually called "mt"), create a folder called plugins; upload the plugin in ASCII format, and rebuild. David, thanks so much (and thank you,Phil for the spam_protect headsup) - it works beautifully!
Thanks ashley! I had to change the MT::util also, but it appears to be working now. Something messed up my SCode, but I think that is a blacklist issue.
ashley, that's what I was saying up in #11. Both line 17 and line 26 are "my ($ctx, $args) = @_;" and even with regular rebuilds, your error.log is getting that same message. Just comment out the second one (*not* the first) by putting a # at the start of the line, and it'll be fine.
hi phil. sorry, i missed that; i will try that fix right now. also, i apologize for posting the same comment twice. thanks for your help.
hi phil. sorry, i missed that; i will try that fix right now. also, i apologize for posting the same comment twice. thanks for your help.
Thanks for this plugin - I couldn't figure out what was up with the new redirect "feature".
thank you very much! that helps a bunch. i'd been looking for something like this to solve this problem i didn't like. :D
I installed the plug in.
I inserted redirect="0" in my tag
And when I rebuild I get
MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x17529c0) Subroutine _hdlr_comment_author_link redefined at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MT\lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1173.
And still I have the redirect.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Someone posted with this exact same problem almost a month ago, but I haven't been able to find any word on a fix yet. I uploaded the plugin into my plugins directory in ASCII mode and put the redirect="0" tag in, and when I rebuild I get this:
MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x810aa80) Subroutine _hdlr_comment_author_link redefined at lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1173.
Both in my little rebuilding window and in my comments window. I'm really sorry if this is me being a big stupidhead and not doing something that's really obvious to people who know more about installing these things, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Nice idea. But to avoid those "subroutine redefined" errors, I would replace the entire plugin initialisation code (including those curly braces) with:
use MT::Template::Context;
MT::Template::Context->add_tag(CommentAuthorLink => \&author_link);
MT::Template::Context->add_tag(CommentPreviewAuthorLink => \&author_link);
And then in the author_link subroutine, you can change the code which calls the 2.661 behaviour to this:
if ($redirect) {
return MT::Template::Context::_hdlr_comment_author_link (@_);
}
i get the same exact error that rachel does... nothing at all is working for me as far as turning this annoying redirect thing off. :(
I've been using this plugin for awhile, and still use it with MT3 because I appreciate that it just flips the redirect off by default. I would like to report one bug, however -- under MT3 (and maybe this is just for typekey commenters -- I haven't checked), if there is not url or email provided, MTCommentAuthorLink still creates a mailto: link which points to a long string of hexadecimal digits (eg: mailto:28a939cdef399201bb83ac).
Just FYI. And thanks!