Okay, now I've got my blog to finally allow comments, but as with it is with MT; on new/changed comments only indexes are rebuilt. That's not ideal, as I have a recent comments sidebar entry which needs to be rebuilt on all pages.
I wouldn't mind this with a delay, e.g. called by periodic-cron-tasks, or however this could be done.
I stumbled upon two "rebuild all" scripts, which would work, only if I wasn't the Commercial Pack for custom fields. So guess what, if I try to use those rebuild scripts, they won't execute as they find "illegal" tags I created with custom fields.
Does anyone a solution for that? It's driving me nuts for some hours now :)
Thank you so much in advance!
- Ben
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Good ol' "tool/rebuild-pages" does the job. Making a CRON job from it.
Hi Ben,
Have you tried the mt-rebuild.pl plugin?
That should be able to do the trick for you.
Alternatively you could use php or ssi includes for that widget which is used across all the pages, so that it would update itself once when a new comment is posted and then appear instantly site-wide, without the need to rebuild.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Hey Mihai,
thanks for your answer. Indeed, mt-rebuild.pl is one of the two plugins that can't deal with custom fields. But that's not too bad, as tools/rebuild-pages still does its job, reliably, even as a CRON job.
I thought about SSI or an PHP include as well, but that's not viable in a Varnish setup. I currently evaluate ESI (https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ESIfeatures) for that very special purpose. I'll let you know how that works out :)
Yours,
- Ben
Alright Ben, though it is strange to hear that the mt-rebuild one cannot handle custom fields.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
This probably could be solved. When I tried this very plugin, I had duplicate "ghost templates" of some of my index pages but defined as entrys in my DB (showed up nowhere in the backend). I suppose it could be due to that when I used the CLI tool I got an " is not a valid template tag" (replaced with an actual tag I use, not this one). Nevertheless, as I just test ESI, I might "get rid" of forced rebuilds just in favor of periodic cron tasks.
Thanks for the head up!
ESI works great, just make sure that - unless you're using Varnish 3 - your backend doesn't send gzipped/deflated files. MT is like make for Varnish. Or vice versa, of course ;-)