Iterate Over a Hand Selected List of Entries

Background

This template tag recipe emerged from a desire to manually select a hand full of entries, and then to iterate over them to display them in a list.

To accomplish this, I start with a list of entry IDs. I then place those into an array that I manually construct using mt:var.

Finally, using a for loop, I loop over each of the entries, pulling each one from the database using an "mt:entries id='foo'" tag.

Example

<mt:var name="best" index="0" value="2541">
<mt:var name="best" index="1" value="2674">
<mt:var name="best" index="2" value="2567">

<mt:Ignore> 
    Or, using the push() syntax which handles 
    auto-incrementing of the index automatically
</mt:ignore>
<mt:var name="push(best)" value="2245">
<mt:var name="push(best)" value="1835">
<mt:var name="push(best)" value="2629">
<mt:var name="push(best)" value="2251">

<h1 class="archive-title" id="page-title">Most Popular</h1>
<div class="entry-listing">
    <ul>
<mt:for var="i" from="0" to="6" increment="1">
<mt:setvarblock name="id"><mt:var name="best" function="pop"></mt:setvarblock>
<MTEntries id="$id">
    <li>
    <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><span class="entry-listing-date">
    <mt:EntryDate format="%b %e %Y" /></span>
    <span class="entry-listing-title"><mt:EntryTitle /></span>
    <span class="entry-listing-comments"><mt:EntryCommentCount /></span></a>
    </li>
</mtentries>
</mt:for>
    </ul>
</div>