This is a tutorial for those who would like to include a “Moblog” sidebar or section within their main blog, as I have done here on Hmmn. I wrote this initially at the request of Kevin of MFOP, for other mobloggers who were asking him how to do it. However, it doesn’t have to be used for a “moblog” sidebar only. In fact, my “Of Momentary Interest” sidebar of web links was done using the same method. At heart, what we’re doing is pulling the content of one blog into another one.
I really can’t take credit for this — I figured out how to do this after cobbling together various posts made to Movable Type‘s Support Forum. In particular, without a .php script widget posted by Kadyellebee (Kristine), I couldn’t have been able to do this. Thanks also goes to Jeffrey for answering some questions about .php.
Both jeansnow.net and VuDeja? are, as far as I know, sucessfully running moblog sidebars using the method described herein, so it should work for you, though obviously I make no guarantees. By all means, if you find something amiss in my instructions, or a better alternative, please leave a comment and I’ll continue to keep this page updated. To read the tutorial, click on the link below:
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