David Raynes

Starting with an idea I got while reading a thread on the MT Support Forums, I started working on a new plugin: MTBlogPings .

It doesn't do much just yet, but I imagine I'll be adding more features to it in the future.

Download one of the following files, unpack it, and place pings.pl in your plugins/ directory.

• pings.tar.gz
• pings.zip

It provides the following tags:

• MTBlogPingCount
  • Returns the number of pings the blog has received in total

Future Plans:

• Adding an MTPing tag, in the same form as MTEntry
• Feel free to suggest any more ideas...

Update: (2003-05-13 17:15)

• Added a new container tag, MTBlogPings, which acts like MTPings, except that you can give it lastn, offset, and tb_id (the number in your trackback urls) arguments. If given a tb_id, MTBlogPings will only return pings to that specific id.
• MTBlogPings will also import either the Category or Entry that was pinged, so you can use all of the MTEntry* and MTCategory* tags.
• Within MTBlogPings, you can use the two new conditional tags ( MTBlogPingsIfEntry and MTBlogPingsIfCategory ) to determine whether the trackback was sent to a Category or an Entry, so you can determine the appropriate tags to use.

Update: (2003-06-05 16:58)

• MTBlogPings can now take one additional argument, category.
• MTBlogPings is now aware of Category contexts (e.g. with the MTCategories tag) and will return Trackbacks for that Category.

Update: (2003-06-09 15:26)

• MTBlogPingCount can now take a category argument as well. It will return the number of pings to that Category.