Edit This Page

Submitted by Morbus Iff on Mon, 2003-01-20 17:47

I'm so behind. In Dave's first essay of the year, he writes:

We went a lot further with the ManilaRPC interface, and the Edit This Page button, the key innovation in Manila, still hasn't appeared in other mass-market CMSes -- but I have no doubt the interfaces will deepen, and the convenience for users will increase, and the content systems will do more of the work.

The "Edit This Page" button may not be a default item in the Movable Type templates, but it is certainly possible - I've been using it on the individual archives of Gamegrene.com for quite a long time (it's there, but is an invisible pixel gif at the bottom of the page). Add the following to your templates and, assuming you're cookied into the MT adminterface, you've got your "Edit This Page" equivalent (broken across multiple lines for ease of reading):

<a href="/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view
&_type=entry&blog_id=1&id=<$MTEntryID$>">
Edit This Page with Movable Type</a>

If your blog_id isn't 1, be sure to change it.