Movable Type moving incorrectly

February 6, 2007 9:59 AM

I am trying to help someone at my work with Movable Type, but I am at a loss.

When we click on "comments" below a blog post it takes us to the most recent post, no matter what blog post comment link we click on. Further, if you take the #comment off the url and just try to go to the individual post page, it does the same thing. Email me in my profile and I will give you the blog link (as I don't want to link it here for etiquette purposes).

posted by mic stand to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

Are you using the standard template that comes with the install or have you modified it?
posted by sephira at 10:13 AM on February 6, 2007

It sounds like you have something in your template messed up. You can use what is in the default template for MT:

<MTIfCommentsActive>| <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments">Comments (<$MTEntryCommentCount$>)</a></MTIfCommentsActive>

Default templates for 3.2x

Alternatively, you could use something like this that will link to the "Individual Archive" page with comments for entries:

<a href="<$MTEntryLink$>#comments"><$MTEntryCommentCount$> Comments </a>
posted by geeky at 10:28 AM on February 6, 2007

Response by poster: It appears that we have the first segment of code you've listed in place. I tested the alternative you listed, geeky, to no avail. Any other thoughts?
posted by mic stand at 11:28 AM on February 6, 2007

Response by poster: Sephira,

I believe we have modified the template very little other than our branding.
posted by mic stand at 11:32 AM on February 6, 2007

Make sure you have the tags wrapped around the entire statement, and make sure your comments are active. You can do this by going to the entry in the MT controls, and at the bottom you will see a series of dropdowns, one of which is Comments: None, Open, Closed. Make sure it says open, then save and the site should rebuild automatically.

My guess is the comments are not automatically in the "open" status. To make each new entry have comments "open" go to Weblog Config>Preferences and near the bottom you should see a listing for the automatic status of comments.
posted by sephira at 12:49 PM on February 6, 2007

That should read "make sure you have the 60;MTIfCommentsActive62; 60;/MTIfCommentsActive62; tags wrapped"...
posted by sephira at 12:51 PM on February 6, 2007

Or whatever. Waffles. Feel free to email me if that doesn't work or you need clarification.
posted by sephira at 12:52 PM on February 6, 2007

A link to an example page with the problem evident might also be helpful as well as a link to a text file containing your MT template code.
posted by fooljay at 3:45 PM on February 6, 2007

mic_stand, if you have a paid license, our support team (I work with the MT team) is happy to help if you file a help ticket, but otherwise, please do post a link to an example page in this thread and we can all help troubleshoot.
posted by anildash at 10:36 PM on February 6, 2007