I tweaked the content of the new comment notification email to add a couple convenient links - one to the main index page of the blog to which the comment was posted and one directly to the approve url for the comment. FYI, I found the "blog_url => $blog->site_url" in MT/*/CMS.pm and edited its syntax for Submission.pm
add to MT/plugins/Blacklist/lib/Blacklist/App/Submission.pm around line 745 or so:
blog_url => $blog->site_url,
add to MT/plugins/Blacklist/tmpl/new-comment.tmpl (insert as line 1):
Visit <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_NAME> at <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_URL>
blog_url => $blog->site_url,
add to MT/plugins/Blacklist/tmpl/new-comment.tmpl (insert as line 1):
Visit <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_NAME> at <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_URL>
Not using MT-Blacklist plugin? make same changes to MT/MT/App/Comments.pm and MT/tmpl/email/new-comment.tmpl
similar process for approve_url - will post later
Hi,
For about an hour now I've been trying to find information on tags used in Movable templates, until I stumbled onto this post you wrote a few months ago.
It seems that if I want to use a tag, I have to 'declare' it in perl first. Is that correct? This would explain why tags I took from other .tmpl files won't work in my notification.tmpl (I installed MT-Notification tonight) ... and would mean I have to go into the MT-Notification source and 'export' those variables I need as well.
I want the 'notification mails' to simply be full-content mails, hence my interest in changing the template :-)
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me if I'm right.
Thanks,
Rob
Amsterdam (NL)
Yes, as far as I understand this is correct. In order to use certain tags in your email notification template (notification.tmpl) they first have to be "declared" (or whatever) in Notifier.pm. I use MT-Notifier and got a couple tweaks working for my email template, but honestly it is a little "over my head" so I have not gotten too far with it.
Here's an example of one small hack to MT-Notifier...
In my subscriber's email notification, I wanted a link to the blog being referenced:
First I inserted the following line in two places (around lines 293 and 339) in extlib/Everitz/Notifier.pm:
blog_url => $blog->site_url,
Then I inserted the following as the first line in tmpl/email/notification.tmpl:
A new entry has been posted on <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_NAME> at <TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_URL>
I hope that makes sense (and I hope it still works with the latest versions of MT-Notifier and MT).