Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

This one is straight out of the manual but it's not something I see used on very many MT blogs and I only recently added it myself. MT allows you to list blog entries in the order of which have been most recently commented on. Note that if ten comments have been added on one blog entry and one on another, each entry will only be listed once. I think this is why most people don't use it.

However, I decided to add it to my main index portal page as a good overview of what people have been discussing recently. Here's the code:

<MTEntries recently_commented_on="5"><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a> (most recent comment in this thread was by <MTComments lastn="1"><$MTCommentAuthor$> on <$MTCommentDate$></MTComments><br></MTEntries>

This lists the five blog entries that have most recently been commented on and for each the author and date of the most recent comment on that entry.

Note: A really creative use of the recently_commented_on attribute is to display your blog like a discussion forum.