January 04, 2003
Testing scheduled publication

test to see if I’ve enabled the scheduled publication feature.

This feature is a php-based hack from scriptygoddess.com, found here.

Theoretically, it allows the publisher to set an entry to a date/time, and it won’t appear until that date and time - something observant readers of this site will understand my interest in.

Now if this works, perhaps I’ll debug the server-side plugins that stoped working when I upgraded to MT 2.51…

On the other hand, if it fails, perhaps you’ll get to see an entire week’s publication schedule presented all at once.

very oddly, when I hit “Save” in the MT UI, these URLS appeared in the “URLs to ping” field:


http://www.hipmonkey.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/46
http://www.hipmonkey.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/293

which kind of spooks me. Also, they keep appearing even if I delete them, which makes me suspect there’s a problem with my database.

mike whybark. 141 words. Posted at January 04, 2003 02:32 PM
Comments

It worked just fine.

Now to track down those mystery pings.

Posted by: mike at January 4, 2003 2:35 PM

A ha!

"If you turn on auto-discovery, when you write a new post, any external links will be extracted and the appropriate sites automatically sent TrackBack pings."

Spooky! So why does it work here and less so elsewhere? hmph.

Posted by: mike at January 4, 2003 2:38 PM

Hey! You pinged me! LOL! Yeah - those urls are pings to me (well - scriptygoddess - it says "hipmonkey" because that's where scriptygoddess's MT install is)

Posted by: Jennifer at January 4, 2003 4:52 PM

Dag nabbit.

The simple php approach used at scriptygoddess has some drawbacks: primarily, since it hides the post at the time the user loads the page, links, individual archives, and most irritatingly, the calendar navigator all render the entry.

There's a more complaex approach available that blocks the retrieval call to the database based on a date test, which is the RIGHT way to do this.

Of course, the right RIGHT way is to build it as a plugin using MT's API.

Hm, must look into this.

Posted by: mike at January 4, 2003 7:06 PM




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