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OnThisDay
A Plugin for Movable Type

Release 2.0
August 25, 2007


From Brad Choate
http://www.bradchoate.com/
Copyright (c) 2002-2007, Brad Choate


Installation:

To install, place the following files in your Movable Type plugins
directory:

    (mt home)/plugins/OnThisDay/OnThisDay.pl
    (mt home)/plugins/OnThisDay/lib/MTOnThisDay/Plugin.pm

NOTE: This plugin does not support dynamic publishing yet.


Tags made available through this plugin:


<MTOnThisDay>

This Movable Type plugin allows you to produce a "On This Day" list
of all the blog entries that share the same day and month of the entry
it's published for or the current day and month if published outside
of an entry.

If that didn't make sense, maybe this will:

  <MTOnThisDay>
    <MTDateHeader>
      <a href="<$MTEntryLink archive_type="Daily"$>">
        <$MTEntryDate format="%Y"$>
      </a>
    </MTDateHeader>
  </MTOnThisDay>

The above construct will list all the years that have blogs on the
current month and day. It will link the year to the daily archive
page.


Here's an example that produces more information on the entries by
listing their excerpts (and by displaying each entry found instead of
just the year):

  <MTOnThisDay>
    <MTDateHeader>
      <a href="<$MTEntryLink archive_type="Daily"$>">
        <b><$MTEntryDate format="%Y"$></b>:
      </a><br />
    </MTDateHeader>
    <div><$MTEntryExcerpt$></div>
  </MTOnThisDay>


You can use any of the tags you can normally use within the <MTEntries>
container tag.

You can also use the <MTOnThisDay> tag on your individual archive page
to list for those entries any other entries that have the same creation
month and day.


The latest version of this plugin can be found here:

    http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mtplugins/trunk/OnThisDay


Brad Choate
August 25, 2007