Hi all,
I'm a newbie with MT. I've got a site up and running with MT4.21 with Community Pack 1.6, Professional Pack 1.2 installed. I have successfully installed the Action streams plugin and configured it to use various services. However I can't fathom how to get the action stream showing in the front end site. I know that it is something to do with widgets, templates and styles. However I can't work out where to start. I'd be happy to use the example templates provided with the plug in but again I can't work out how to get these running. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
thanks,
Paul
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
I don't know where it's located in your copy of ActionStreams, but you can use this widget to put them in your sidebar: http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mtplugins/trunk/ActionStreams/plugins/ActionStreams/doc/example_templates/widgets/author-find-me-elsewhere.mtml. Just put that in a new widget template and add it to your sidebar.
Thanks for the reply Mike, I've tried to add this as a widget but on publishing the site it errors with:
Error during publishing: Publish error in template 'Main Index': Error in tag: error in module Footer: Publish error in template 'Footer': Error in tag: Error in tag: error in module Sidebar: Publish error in template 'Sidebar': Error in tag: Error in tag: Error in tag: error in widget Home Page Widgets Group: Publish error in template 'Home Page Widgets Group': Error in tag: Error in tag: error in widget Action Stream: Publish error in template 'Action Stream': Error in tag: No author specified for OtherProfiles
I've tried to work out what this means but I'm out of my depth. Any ideas?
This is what I use: http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/tutorials/movable-type/action-stream-widget-example.php
I would also recommend that you put module caching on that widget, caching it for a few minutes at a stretch so that if you decide to rebuild your entire blog it doesn't really badly slow down your rebuild.
Have a gander at the tips on my site, including the source of my current home page which incorporates a lot of tricks with Action Streams.
The samples in the docs should be all you need to get started and play from there. It operates much like other MT containers (such as mt:pages, or mt:entries) so have a play!
If you get stuck, send me some of your template code and I'll have a look at it.
Oh good, the forums stole my code. I even checked it was all ok from the markdown link...
Anyways, here is the link: http://www.richardbenson.co.uk/work/programming/mt-tips/
Sorry I can't make it clickable for you...
It also stole my line breaks...