{"id":1787,"date":"2004-07-24T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2004-07-24T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T20:51:39","slug":"cool-quick-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"Cool quick hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comment spammers have started hitting my Wife’s blog as well as mine recently… I’ve gotten her set up with MT-Blacklist and such too, which has helped some, but there are still some comments lurking in the background that she’d like to get rid of. Fortunately, there’s a really cool hack over at TheGirlieMatters<\/a> which describes how to have your Movable Type main menu show more than the five most recent entries.
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\nIt’s some pretty nifty and handy code, so I hope she doesn’t mind if I quote her here in addition to linking to her:<\/p>\n

\nThe code is in lib\/MT\/App\/CMS.pm, and all line numbers are based on v2.661.<\/p>\n

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Entries, lines 233-236:<\/b>
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\n my $iter = MT::Entry->load_iter({ blog_id => $blog_id },
\n { 'sort' => 'created_on',
\n direction => 'descend',
\n limit => 5 });
\n<\/tt><\/p>\n

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Comments, lines 254-257:<\/b>
\n
\n $iter = MT::Comment->load_iter({ blog_id => $blog_id },
\n { 'sort' => 'created_on',
\n direction => 'descend',
\n limit => 5 });
\n<\/tt><\/p>\n

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Pings, lines 272-275:<\/b>
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\n $iter = MT::TBPing->load_iter({ blog_id => $blog_id },
\n { 'sort' => 'created_on',
\n direction => 'descend',
\n limit => 5 });
\n<\/tt><\/p>\n

Change 5<\/tt> to the number you want to display.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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