Installing Mintier
Installation is quite simple:
Extract the distribution (the
.zipor.tar.gzfile) and preserve the directories. The directories that have been unpacked correspond to the directories in your Movable Type installation. Upload these directories to your Movable Type installation such that file structure looks like so:MT_DIR/ |__ Mintier.pl |__ tmpl/ |__ config.tmpl |__ mintier_widget.tmplIf the plugin has been correctly installed, you will see the following under
System Overview > Plugins
Before being able to use the Mintier widget, you must enter a full URL to the location of your Mint installation. This is done through the system wide plugin settings (
System Overview > Plugins)
To add Mintier to your dashboard, simply browse to a dashboard and you will now find a drop down menu now appears at the bottom of the main content section. Choose
Mintierfrom this drop down menu and clickAdd. The page will now refresh and the Mintier widget will now appear
Note: The system overview dashboard and blog dashboards are all configured separately. If you want Mintier to appear for all your dashboards, you will have to add them individually to each dashboard as Step 4 describes.
I have personally switched Mint to using the Massive Blue style which I think makes Mint fit in even more beautifully with Movable Type's blues!
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Andrew Jaffe said:
on Sep 2, 2007 9:35 PM | Reply
I think you've left the "plugins" dir out of the hierarchy in (1) above!
LSF said:
on Sep 2, 2007 11:53 PM | Reply
This is neat, but I think I'd prefer something native to MT4 rather than what you've done here - an iframe that loads Mint. When you click 'preferences', for example, the iframe isn't wide or tall enough to accommodate the Mint screen.
Adrian Hanft said:
on Sep 17, 2007 12:16 AM | Reply
Andrew seems to be right. You forgot the "Plugins/Mindier" part of your directory structure. It is a cool plugin, though.
Rob Buckley said:
on Sep 17, 2007 11:20 AM | Reply
Any chance you could make the preferences per blog instead of system-wide? I have separate mint installations for each blog, since I don't want to mix the results for each blog. At the moment, with Mintier, I can only have one blog's stats appear in the Dashboard for every blog.