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MT Paginate: Just implemented this plugin on another (lesser known) site I run. Very easy – Very cool. I was easily able to take my category archives and paginate them so that one page wasn't loading tons and tons of entries (there was one category that was more "top heavy" than the others). The pagination won't show up unless the archive needs it. Very well done!!

[Found on MT-Plugins.org]

As requested, I'll give a little more info. Promise you won't laugh. I have a Vin Diesel fan blog. The "misc." picture category was getting out of hand – so I wanted to paginate it so that all misc. photos wouldn't load up on the one page (there's ALOT of them… ok, you promised you wouldn't laugh!!) ;o)

First – to install the plugin – you need to upload it into your plugins folder (in your MT folder)

Here's what the main content on that template looks like (the MTPaginate tags are in bold)

<p align="center">| <a href="<$MTBlogURL$>">Main</a> |</p>
<h1 align="center">~~ <$MTArchiveCategory$> ~~</h1>
<MTPaginate>
<!–The next part is what generates the "page navigation" –>
<MTPaginateIfMultiplePages>
<p><$MTPaginateNavigator style="links" format="%d" $></p>
</MTPaginateIfMultiplePages>
<!– This part determines how many posts will go on the page, I set it to 10 –>
<MTPaginateContent max_sections="10">

<MTEntries>
<$MTEntryTrackbackData$>
<MTDateHeader>
<h1><$MTEntryDate format="%x"$></h1>
</MTDateHeader>
<div class="blogbody">
<a name="<$MTEntryID pad="1"$>"></a>
<p><b><$MTEntryTitle$></b></p>
<$MTEntryBody$>
<MTEntryIfExtended>
<$MTEntryMore$>
</MTEntryIfExtended>
<p>
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryDate format="%X"$></a>
<MTEntryIfAllowComments>
| <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments">Comments (<$MTEntryCommentCount$>)</a>
</MTEntryIfAllowComments>
<MTEntryIfAllowPings>
| <a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTTrackbackScript$>?__mode=view&entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
</MTEntryIfAllowPings>
</p>
<$MTPaginateSectionBreak$>
</MTEntries>
</MTPaginateContent>
</MTPaginate>

A little more explanation of the page navigation tag:
<$MTPaginateNavigator style="links" format="%d" $>
There can be other values for "style" and "format". I have mine set to "links" because I wanted text links, instead of a pop-up menu. Format is how the text links are structred. I just wanted the numbers, but if you wanted it to display like: "Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3.. etc." the value of format would have been "Page %d"

From what I could tell from the documentation, there are many other ways to use this. For example, if you have very long posts, you could paginate the content of a specific post (or at least that's what it looked like. I haven't tried it so I can't say for sure)

January 2nd, 2004 | Category: MT Plugins | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed