David Raynes

A new version of remote post has arrived. In addition to everything included in Release 1, this version also introduces the following:

• Getting a list of available categories
• Posting to specific categories
• Entries placed via remote post now reflect the default blog settings (i.e. Allow Pings, Convert Line Breaks, and Allow Comments)
• Bundles in the script to send remote post pings

Download either remote post-2.tar.gz or remote post-2.zip, unpack it, and place the files as follows:

• ConfigMgr.pm: in the lib/MT/ directory
• remotepost.pm and remotepostWww.pm: in the lib/MT/App/ directory
• mt-pi.cgi and mt-www-pi.cgi: in the base MT directory

You will also need the XML::RSS perl module now. If you don't have that installed, you should be able to just download RSS.pm and place it in your extlib/XML/ directory.

Sending a remote post ping is now a two step process:

1. Bring up mt-www-pi.cgi in your browser and enter the remote post Ping URL
2. The script will then connect to the URL and get a list of categories available on that blog, and present them to you along with a list of entries to pick from and an option to include the ComeBack URL

And just to make sure I have made it explictly clear (which apparently I haven't, and I apologize for that), ComeBack is not fully implemented yet. ComeBack pings can be received by MT, but at the moment, they cannot be sent. I am working on that. Placing a ComeBack Ping URL in the URLs to Ping box in the New/Edit Entry screen will not work for ComeBacks. The ComeBack implementation is currently very different than Trackback, so pinging that way will fail. The send-cb script that I mentioned with the initial release of ComeBack was just meant as an example. It is not for use within MT.

I'll get them working together soon. I promise. :)