This plugin is no longer supported in Movable Type 8 and later.

Bob the Rebuilder, a plugin for Movable Type

When publishing an Entry in Movable Type, the related templates are also published: the entry, a category archive, monthly archive, and main index, for example. Often in large multiblog installs, however, circumstances arise where some templates aren't republished when needed.

Bob the Rebuilder provides a way to republish a blog (or a part of a blog) on a recurring schedule. For example, create a job to republish an entire blog every 24 hours, or create a job to republish all index archives every 10 minutes. An unlimited number of jobs can be created to republish any blog (or part of it) according to a number of set frequency choices.

Prerequisites

• Movable Type 4.x or 5.1+
• run-periodic-tasks must be running

Installation

To install this plugin follow the instructions found here:

http://tinyurl.com/easy-plugin-install

Configuration

Bob the Rebuilder is configured at the System level (Tools > Rebuilder in MT5; Manage > Rebuilder in MT4). "Jobs" are used to rebuild a blog or part of a blog on a schedule, and can be enabled or disabled as needed.

"Create a rebuilder job" to get started: specify a blog, what you want to republish, its frequency, and save it. Done!

It's important to be aware of the load you may be placing on the server -- many jobs each republishing an entire blog every few minutes is goint to take a lot of resources. Planning site architecture is outside of the scope of this document, but the goal should be to publish efficiently. Only publish what needs to be republished, and republish as little as possible.

Tip: if a blog's archives need to be republished, republish each archive type with a different job using a different schedule. Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly archives almost definitely don't need to be published every few minutes or hours, however a category archive may need much greater frequency.

Support

This plugin is not an official Six Apart release, and as such support from Six Apart for this plugin is not available.

Authors: Six Apart, Endevver Copyright: 2009-2013 Six Apart Ltd. License: MIT