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I find myself wondering about this, not only because Problogger asked about it way back when, but because I'm sitting here looking at this site.  One of the features of WordPress is that you can have multiple index pages.  Movable Type doesn't do that out of the box but it's a two second fix with Alden Bates' Paged Archives plugin, a plugin that that I've blogged about before.  If you check out the main index page for this site, you should see the links near the bottom of the content column.

It's not a big change.  I mean we already use category pages as well as monthly ones.  I also have a complete post list, something that WordPress doesn't do out of the box.  I did a test of 5 Posts on the front page instead of the normal 10 but quickly changed it back.  I hate it when the sidebar is longer than the content.  You're usually stuck with that on individual post pages unless you normally write a bloody book each and every post.

The image is from Sue's post about Blogging Tips with EDUBlogs.  It came up when I did a few keyword searches for an images to use on this post.  Maybe we can get her to do an article on the subject.

Some thing that has bothered me for quite some time is how Movable Type does it's comment links. Instead of just a normal link to a website, it does this weird internal redirect. I'm sure the software does this to help prevent spam but with all of the protection built in, there's really no need for something like that.

It's easy to fix.  Here's the code for the Comment Detail template.  You'll find it under Design -> Templates -> Quickfilters -> Template Modules.

<div class="comment"<MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Individual"> id="comment-<$MTCommentID$>"</MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled>>
    <div class="inner">
        <div class="comment-header">
            <$MTCommentAuthorLink default_name="Anonymous" show_email="0"$> <MTIfNonEmpty tag="CommentAuthorIdentity"><$MTCommentAuthorIdentity$></MTIfNonEmpty> said:
        </div>
        <div class="comment-content">
            <$MTCommentBody$>
        </div>
        <div class="comment-footer">
            <a href="#comment-<$MTCommentID$>" title="Permalink to this comment"><$MTCommentDate format="%x %X"$></a>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>



See the line up there with $MTCommentAuthorLink? That's where the "Commenter bla-bla says:" get generated along with the link. All you have to do to get rid of the weird redirect link is add in no_redirect="1" to the line.

So the new line will look like this:

<$MTCommentAuthorLink default_name="Anonymous" show_email="0" no_redirect="1"$> <MTIfNonEmpty tag="CommentAuthorIdentity"><$MTCommentAuthorIdentity$></MTIfNonEmpty> said:

Why am I posting this? Because it's missing from the docs. Rather annoying actually. Almost like reading Wordpress' codex once again. There used to be a plugin for this but it's no longer needed.

Hopefully this will help someone else out. (And maybe get the docs edited to show this feature.)

Now I'm off to regenerate about 200 comments. :)

edit: Also considering that I don't use nofollow on this blog, I think it's important for folks to get credit for their comments.

reedit: You have to do the same to the Recent Comments widget.

Just wondering if anyone else would like to make a suggestion of a plugin or two (or three) that they would like to see installed here for use? I'm using the Paged Archives one currently. Granted its broken but I do hope I can get that fixed soon.