{"id":436,"date":"2002-11-28T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2002-11-28T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-436.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"new-mt-plugin-mtextendedattribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/28\/new-mt-plugin-mtextendedattribute\/","title":{"rendered":"New MT plugin: MTExtendedAttribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just released the <a href=\"\/martin\/projects\/mt\/extendedattribute\/\">&lt;MTExtendedAttribute&gt; plugin<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type<\/a> into the wild.  I&#8217;ve been working on this off-and-on for the last month or so, but other things have been keeping me busy, so it&#8217;s taken a while to get it polished enough for anyone else to use.<\/p>\n<p>Movable Type only gives you a limited number of fields in which to store data for entries, blogs, categories and authors.  With &lt;MTExtendedAttribute&gt;, you can add new fields by adding the extra data into a CSV file, which you drop into your file system, or into a Template Module.  I&#8217;m using it right now to define multiple icons for each category in my &#8220;Quick Reviews&#8221; sidebar (which is itself a Movable Type blog).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible\/probably that future versions of MT will allow you to defined custom fields for your entries, categories, and other stuff, but this plugin allows you to do this right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just released the &lt;MTExtendedAttribute&gt; plugin for Movable Type into the wild. I&#8217;ve been working on this off-and-on for the last month or so, but other things have been keeping me busy, so it&#8217;s taken a while to get it polished enough for anyone else to use. Movable Type only gives you a limited number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/28\/new-mt-plugin-mtextendedattribute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New MT plugin: MTExtendedAttribute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movable_type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}