Announcing mt-list.

[UPDATE Oct 19 2002: A maintenance release is now available to fix a few bugs. Users of version 0.1 are recommended to download this new version.]

The next version of mt-rssfeed will feature the ability to loop through a list of URIs to RSS syndicated resource feeds. This feature will avoid the laborious and inefficient practice of cutting and pasting the same blocks of template code to insert multiple syndication feeds.

I believe this functionality would be useful independent of mt-rssfeed plugin and have chosen to release it as its own plugin called mt-list.

The initial release of mt-list, a plugin for creating lists within a template or text file, is now available here.

This provides the following functionality to MovableType templates:

• Creating a simple list from line-feed delimited MovableType data or from an external file.
• Looping through a defined list
• Looping using random non-repeating selection or...
• ...a specific count with an offset.
• Looping sorted in ascending or descending textual order.

More detailed documentation is included in the code.