I'm using MTOS for my site that is meant to be a place for me to post blog novels. I wish for each mini site to have their own design and each should have their own url structure.
Example:
Main site - http://mydomain.com/
Novel 1 - http://mydomain.com/novel-1/
Novel 2 - http://mydomain.com/novel-2/
Novel 2 Chapter 3 - http://mydomain.com/novel-2/chapter-3
I know this is possible by creating multiple blogs from a single MTOS install. However, is it possible for me to have the posts from the mini sites appear in the main site? This means that if I post in Novel 1, it will appear in the categories and tags of the main site.
I have considered pulling RSS feeds from the mini sites and publishing them on the main site. But I would prefer a more integrated way of doing this.
Does anyone have any solutions to this? I'm not sure if this is even a proper way of presenting my content. If I'm going the wrong direction with this, please point me the right way.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Yes this is possible using the multiblog feature, you can specify which blogs you want to include in your template.
How do I go about doing this? Is it done within the template admin page or do I need to fiddle with the code?
Jen, this is very doable, in the templates, not in the admin.
I explained in detail here how we do it with a coupla dozen blogs. The steps are easy once you get the idea that every time one of your blogs publishes it will trigger an entry to your main blog.
This doesn't involve categories or tags. It puts headline links anywhere you choose on your main site (You could put it under a section called Works in Progress or whatever.) You could also include the beginning of each section if you like, using a line like
<mt:Entry words="40">
right under the headline-link code.
Hi Jen,
You will be able to get this by matters of coding
For instance, if you want to display entries from the blogs 1, 2 and 3 you will use:
<mt:Entries include_blogs="1,2,3,">your entry listing coding here</mt:Entries>
In my sample above I assumed that your blog IDs were 1, 2 and 3
Thanks for the help shenews and Mihai. I'll go try it out.
PS: I'm impressed by the speed at which my problem is solved. Kudos to the community.
Jen, I tossed off a bad bit of code as though I were thinking out loud to myself. (I knew what I meant.)
needs to be written asYou can also use
Choose the size of the Excerpt in Preferencees--> Entry--> Excerpt Length
I use the Excerpt in a short index template, to display posts of the same length with a "Continue reading..." line.
The "words" option can then be used for something else of a different length -- the first few words of comments, for instance.