Using MTMultiBlog plug-in
The Setup32.com site contains a different blogs for every major category, i.e. News, Windows 2000 Resource Guide, Windows 2000 Network Administration etc. All these blogs save the pages in a different directory.
So, how to update the top domain index automatically using the articles posted in the other blogs?
The solution is: MTMultiBlog plug-in by David Raynes.
“MultiBlog is a plugin that provides the user with the ability to include templated content from other blogs in their MovableType installation. It also allows the user to define rebuild triggers as normally posts to one blog do not cause rebuild in another that might be including content from it. Finally, MultiBlog allows the user to define access controls for the blogs in their system, to prevent one blog from accessing the content of another.”
And here are some real word examples:
<MTMultiBlog include_blogs="1">
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<h2><a href="<MTEntryPermalink>"><MTEntryTitle></a></h2>
<p>Posted in: <a href="<MTBlogURL>"><MTBlogName></a></p>
<MTEntryBody>
<p>[<a href="<MTEntryPermalink>">more</a> | <MTIfCommentsActive> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments">discuss (<$MTEntryCommentCount$>) </a></MTIfCommentsActive>]</p> </MTEntries>
</MTMultiBlog>
This code will insert the latest entry from the blog with ID=1.
<MTMultiBlog include_blogs="5">
<h2>Latest News</h2>
<ul>
<MTEntries lastn="5">
<li><a href="<MTEntryPermalink>"><MTEntryTitle></a></li>
</MTEntries>
</ul>
</MTMultiBlog>
This code will insert a list of links to the last 5 entries posted in the blog 5.
You can find some more examples and info about the MTMultiBlog plug-in here.