Hi,
I've been using MT since 3, and definitely enjoy using it although as I move more into the development side of things I feel as though the water gets too deep ;)
I've been looking for a plugin or instructions on how to duplicate the entry object. I would simply like an additional menu item under "Create" pulldown while on the dashboard. It would function just like an entry but be called "Video" or "Event." I am aware that it's possible and actually very easy to do this with categories but I'd like making posts of different sorts to be as dead simple as possible for my user base.
If this is miscategorized, please point me in the right direction as to where to post.
thanks!
peter
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Adding a new menu item is easy enough: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/developer/apps/building-menus.html. Building out your "Video" or "Event" types is where it gets more difficult.
I wonder if Motion's entry type custom field wouldn't help here: just click an icon to create a text-type entry, video-type entry, URL-type, entry, etc.
Thanks Dan!
I'm not out of the woods yet but this seems to be the right direction. I was looking around the templates and can't find a really clear or easy way to reference the entry type stuff that motion does. Do you have any suggestions for where to look and/or what the code will look like when I create the index templates? I'm assuming something like:
// entry data
Any advice will help!