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[Lisa]

There's a new plugin for MovableType that lets you add admin only links to your site, so you can easily edit entries, comments, add entries etc.. it will hide it from anyone without the 'admin' cookie. Makes it very easy to implement and I'm going to work on that tonight. Will be much easier 'from the road' too.

MTAdminLink

[gvtexas]

Interesting. I've been using the EntryEditLink and setting the font to white to hide it...works pretty well. Just wanted to post as another (simplier?) option, although I wil check this one Lisa posted and probably install it as well.
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[Lisa]

Nah, this is as simple as it gets and seems pretty secure.... needs php tho =)

[The Linguist]

THis looks great. Will try it out later. On another note, is it possible to add a login window right on my main screen. My MT install is under a different domain if that is important.
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[Lisa]

there is no logon window, you simply access a php file that sets a cookie, theres a logon and logoff one (so you can logoff if on an outside computer). I put that into a password protected directory.

[gvtexas]

Just looked at the EditAdmin, and while easy, is not nearly as simple as the EntryEditLink plugin...which has 1 file to upload and only 1 tag to mess with, and no options or nesting (but only allows editing of the entry, not the other goodies the MTAdmin offers...)

I like the extra features of the AdminLink plugin, so I'll move to using that. But for folks who only want to edit entries and don't want to publish in php, the EntryEditLink plugin is one file to upload, and one tag to insert:

[Lisa]

I can now edit comments and entries right from viewing them. Happiness is. Now I'm going to add a whole admin panel using this.

I travel a lot so this could be absolutely invaluable to me

[gvtexas]

[Lisa]

bookmarks don't travel. =) the admin panel will include a new entry thing and a link to the blogmenu. So will make things easier, I just have to remember my website URL.

Not that I don't have the other memorized, but this is nice. =)

[gvtexas]

[gvtexas]

Hey Lisa, did you do anything special to get to the adminlinks_x files? I cannot get them to open. I have them and the folder wide open at 777, and I still error out as forbidden. The instructions say to be on the same domain, but I'm wondering if one needs instead to be in the path that MT is installed in.
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[Lisa]

Nope I put them inside a special folder for php includes, password protected it, allowed content listing. then went to that directory and clicked the file: it has no output, it is just blank.

worked a treat, had a friend test it and he can't see the edit links (little pencils!) but i can, so i assume its working =)

[gvtexas]

Well, then I'm lucky to have discovered a bug, I guess. I've had the files in my root, seperate folder, the folder where mt scripts are, folder under that, etc. All with 777 folders/files, and consistently errors out as forbidden access to these logon/logoff files. I run php for everything, so it's not a php allergy, but something else is very amiss. I have some protected folders for other things, so no reason to think there's any issue other than something with these two logon/off files are unhappy with my server.

I'll leave a post on this over at the source, but for now, it's a non-working plugin for me!
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[Lisa]

what does your error log say?

a lot of hosts don't allow php scripts to run at 777. Try 755 or 644... check the error logs each time. It should tell you whats going on. =)

[gvtexas]

directory forbidden by index rule

or file does not exist.

Same results whether 644 or 744, or 755.

Did get it working if the two files sit in public_html and chmod to 744, but that is the ONLY place/way they will turn on/off.
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