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Delinking the Current Page in MovableType
A page shouldn’t link to itself.
It’s a general usability rule and just good practice. It’s always bothered me that MovableType doesn’t include logic to unlink the current page. I finally decided to fix it.
It’s only a problem for my site on the subject and monthly archive pages and I originally I thought about writing a plugin to target those two situations. Of course, ideally it would be more generic, which is where my reservations started.
After some research, I realized that it would be far easier to combine two existing plugins to do the work: Compare, and SetVarBlock.
Here’s a code snippet for the category template:
<MTSetVarBlock name="thispage"><$MTArchiveCategory$></MTSetVarBlock>
<ul>
<MTCategories show_empty="1">
<li><MTIfNotEqual a="[MTGetVar name='thispage']" b="[MTCategoryLabel]">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>">
</MTIfNotEqual>
<$MTCategoryLabel$>
<MTIfNotEqual a="[MTGetVar name='thispage']" b="[MTCategoryLabel]">
</a>
</MTIfNotEqual></li>
</MTCategories>
</ul>And for the monthly archives:
<MTSetVarBlock name="thispage"><$MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"$></MTSetVarBlock>
<ul>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly">
<li><MTIfNotEqual a="[MTGetVar name='thispage']" b="[MTArchiveDate format='%B %Y']">
<a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>">
</MTIfNotEqual>
<$MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"$>
<MTIfNotEqual a="[MTGetVar name='thispage']" b="[MTArchiveDate format='%B %Y']">
</a>
</MTIfNotEqual></li>
</MTArchiveList>
</ul>01/28/05 02:17PM Accessibility and Usability Design Geekiness
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