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Similar to the way the list can be limited to certain categories, I'd like to see an option to limit the list to entries published in the last n days.
The site I am building will rapidly expand to thousands of entries, but the related links will always relate to recent items published either the same day or within just a couple of days. Those menus will quickly become unwieldy if I can't limit them.
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Good idea. I had some more options planned for linked entries (limit by author and by publishing status, and sorting options), but hadn't thought of limiting by date--I'll add that to the list for 2.0. "N entries" as well as "N days" would be good, too.
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Kevin,
If you could come up with a hack to accomplish this right now, I'd be willing to bear your children, wash your car, paint your house, whatever. I'd be forever indebted. The NPO I built this site for has been using it for two days and the related entry lists are already becoming unwieldy.
Here it is in action: http://media.progressnowaction.org/clips/2007/07/24/
Last edited by Janus303 (2007-07-25 06:55:46)
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But will you paint my children?
Sure, I'll see if I can throw something together later today. Are the fields in question customized standard fields, extra fields, or both?
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They are extra fields. Ten of them.
And yes, I will happily paint your children as well. I've heard that a super soaker and some tempera paint works well for kid-painting purposes. Quick, colorful, and non-toxic.
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OK, try installing this plugin:
http://www.staggernation.com/mtplugins/ … esLimit.pl
It should limit the lists to only show entries from the past 2 days (and displayed in descending date order). To change the number of days, just edit this line toward the top:
my $days = 2;
Let me know how it goes...
Edit: I should clarify that it will show entries from the past 48 hours, not the past 2 calendar days. And it may be a bit imprecise due to Daylight Saving Time.
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You rock! Just mail me fertilized embryos and I will return them fully painted in just 40 weeks!
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They are getting some intermittent 500 errors this morning with the new plugin that seem to be load-related--i.e. more than five edit windows open at the same time. Can you recommend some troubleshooting steps?
The problem does seem to go away by disabling the plugin.
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If you have multiple fields linked to the same blog, it's probably doing a lot more work than it needs to on any given edit page view--loading the same entries multiple times. I can try adding caching to improve this. Hopefully will have a chance later today.
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Yes, they all come from the same blog. That may not always be the case--there may eventually be a national blog and individual state blogs if NPO's in other states choose to replicate this news clipping service, but for now it's all in one place.
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OK, please try this version and see if it helps at all with the errors under heavy load.
http://www.staggernation.com/mtplugins/ … esLimit.pl
If not, there's one further simple thing I can try.
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Sorry to take so long to reply.
It does seem to help with errors, but it is very slow.
It also has a major bug--if they set the first related entry field, the four other fields get set to the same value.
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So, this version is actually slower than the first version? That's odd, if so... it was meant to speed it up. Anyway, I can fix that bug, at least.
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Well I think the slowness might be ameliorated because they are moving to a better server.
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