LinkBox, a plugin for Movable Type

Authors: Six Apart Copyright: 2009 Six Apart Ltd. License: Artistic License 2.0

Overview

Manage and publish multiple blogrolls (lists of links).

Requirements

• MT 4.x

Features

• Create and Manage LinkBoxes
• Add links with label for each to LinkBox
• Plugin preferences for:
  • list style: "ul" or "ol"
  • link list sort order: order added or alphabetical
• Tags to output LinkBoxes

Documentation

Container Tags

• mt:LinkBoxes - Loops over linkboxes for the blog and name provided

  Attributes:

  • id - optional id of a single LinkBox
  • name - optional name of a single LinkBox

• mt:LinkBoxLinks - Loops over links for the linkbox in context

Function Tags

• mt:LinkBox - Returns a single linkbox specified by name (or it grabs the latest one) as a html list.

  Attributes:

  • blog_id - optional blog id
  • name - optional name of list
  • list_style - "ul" (default) or "ol" (can be specified in plugin settings as well)
  • sort_order - "added" (default) or "alpha" (can be specified in plugin settings as well)

• mt:LinkBoxDescription - description for the linkbox in context

• mt:LinkBoxName - name for the linkbox in context

• mt:LinkBoxLinkURL - URL for the link in context

• mt:LinkBoxLinkName - name for the link in context

• mt:LinkBoxLinkDescription - description for the link in context

Examples

All LinkBoxs

<mt:LinkBoxes>
    <div class="linkbox-container">
        <h3><$mt:LinkBoxName encode_html="1"$></h3>
        <ul class="linkbox">
    <mt:LinkBoxLinks>
            <li>
        <mt:If tag="MTLinkBoxLinkURL">
                    <a href="<mt:LinkBoxLinkURL encode_html="1">"><$mt:LinkBoxLinkName encode_html="1"$></a>
        <mt:Else>
                    <$mt:LinkBoxLinkName encode_html="1"$>
        </mt:If>
        <mt:If tag="MTLinkBoxLinkDescription">
                    <span><$mt:LinkBoxLinkDescription encode_html="1"$></span>
        </mt:If>
            </li>
    </mt:LinkBoxLinks>
        </ul>
    </div>
</mt:LinkBoxes>

Specific LinkBox

<$mt:Var name="linkbox_label" value="Favorite Sites"$>
<div class="linkbox-container">
    <h3><$mt:Var name="linkbox_label"$></h3>
    <$mt:LinkBox name="$linkbox_label"$>
</div>

Installation

1. Move the LinkBox plugin directory to the MT plugins directory.
2. Move the LinkBox mt-static directory to the mt-static/plugins directory.

Should look like this when installed:

$MT_HOME/
    plugins/
        LinkBox/
    mt-static/
        plugins/
            LinkBox/

Desired Features

• add further mt:LinkBox attributes to mt:LinkBoxes tag

Support

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