When I click the "Install Templates" button I get:

Can't locate object method "install_blog_templates" via package "MT::Plugin::TemplateInstaller" at /App/CMS.pm line 12.

Hi Mark, I'm getting the same error as BadDog.

I think know why that is happening. Presumably you both have the new version of Template Installer (v1.1)? I think a change it that plugin broke some of these "install templates" links.

I will issue an update for one or the other ... or both.

Yes indeed, Mark. I saw that Template Installer was required for this one and figured I better install the new version -- which I did, then immediately Paginate.

Looking forward to the update, and thanks for that quick response.

Thanks for the confirmation.

A new version of Pagination, version 1.03, has just been released, You can now use the same download link above to get it...

Mark, the download doesn't seem to have changed. Still showing 1.02 and locking up.

bensolomon, try clearing your cache and then downloading again. I just double-checked the download file, it is indeed 1.03.

That did it Mark. Thanks. Sorry for the confusion.

Looks very neat and simple. Nice job.

I am having a couple issues which I may puzzle through when I have some time unless you have a quick idea.

1) I'm using multiblog to collate two blogs, call them Mainblog and Asideblog. If a page ends with a Mainblog post, all is good and we go to the next page. However, if a page ends with an Asideblog post, we suddenly pick up the Asideblog context and I get a file not found since I don't have that blog actually publish an index (and don't want it to). Other than not starting any particular day with an Asideblog post (so the page doesn't "end" with a post from that blog, I'm not sure what to do there. I'd like to force it to continue to stay in the Mainblog context if you get me.

2) The paginated pages don't pick up my sidebar content which are includes using SSI. I think I know what that is, because pages after page 1 are not .shtml files, they're .shtml?page=2 files, so the server isn't bothering to pick up the SSI content.

Like I said, looks good, works, though maybe not so perfect for me.

1) As you noticed, this plugin doesn't fully support multi-blog contexts. As you can imagine, it can complicate things when you are trying to decide what the total number of "pages" is. That said, while the counts may not be 100% accurate, you may be able to get the next page to work by explicitly setting the blog context, maybe something like:

<mt:SetVar name="blog_id"><mt:BlogID></mt:SetVar>
<mt:Blogs id="$blog_id">
...pagination tags go here...
</mt:Blogs>

2. The SSIs are not working because those pages are being dynamically rendered by Perl. For the same reason, PHP includes will not work either. A workaround might be something like:

<mt:If name="pagination_page_number">
<mt:Include file="sidebar.html">
<mt:Else>
<!--#include file="sidebar.html" -->
</mt:if>

Mark (or anyone else that could assist me),

I'm having a little trouble with the RewriteEngine code. I was able to generate the page code at the bottom of my index file.

The problem is that when I click on one of the page links, I get a "Page Not Found" error.

The server didn't interpret the codes in the original .htaccess file so I changed the RewriteRule part after the ^(.*)$ to:

http://www.jrgeoffrion.com/cgi-bin/MT/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=1&lastn=1&1&idx=http://www.jrgeoffrion.com/blog/index.html&path=http://www.jrgeoffrion.com/blog/index.html&page=2

The problem definitely seems to be with this particular line.

Can anyone suggest the correct RewriteRule line for my .htaccess?

Hi Mark,

I had succesfully deployed the pagination plug in on my system.
But I am confused with "Apache mod_rewrite"..I dont know what exactly it is and from where will i get this (free version I have the trial on with me..)????
After surfing i was able to get the trial version of this thing and i install it on my machine......
What exactly happening is that I am getting the pagination at the end of my page but once I click on any of the page no. I am getting the blank page with pagination visible........

Can you suggest me any solution to overcome this problem....

I am having the same problem as jrgeoffrion: the pagination links appear at the bottom of my front page where they should, but when I follow a link I get a 404 error.

I agree with jrgeoffrion that this has to be a .htaccess error, since everything else seems to be working fine. Any ideas?

I do have two blogs in this installation of Movable Type 4, but they are entirely separate.

Please help!

jrgeoffrion, it seems as thought the pages.cgi script does not exist at:

http://www.jrgeoffrion.com/cgi-bin/MT/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi

Can you confirm that this file has been uploaded to this location? One thing to try is to delete the plugin files and re-upload them, just in case.

The Bard, for you, it seems the issue is that your blog and MT installation are on different domains (based on The Accidental Bard).

There are 2 workarounds to this issue. For the examples below, lets assume that blogdomain.com is the current blog domain and mtdomain.com is the domain for the MT install.

1. My preferred method, if you are on a dedicated server, is to add
the following line to your apache config file:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/filesystem/path/to/your/mtdomain.com/cgi-bin/"

This basically means that on *any* of you domains, /cgi-bin/ will
always point to the same file-system location. If you do this for
example, blogdomain.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi would work as well as
mtdomain.com. This also has the benefit of having your MT search
results show on the blogdomain.com domain. It can also makes
things easier for AJAX, as it avoids cross-domain scripting.

2. If #1 is not an option, then you can do the following. Basically
you want to create the needed path on the blogdomain.com domain.
So create the directories so you have blogdomain.ca/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Pagination/ and upload the
pages.cgi file into that directory. Finally you have to edit the
pages.cgi file so it knows where to find the rest of MT and the plugin
files. So change the line:

use lib "lib", ($ENV{MT_HOME} ? "$ENV{MT_HOME}/lib" : "../../lib");

to something like

use lib "lib", "/full/filesystem/path/to/mtdomain.ca/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Pagination/lib";

and then of course CHMOD 755 the new pages.cgi file.

Hi Mark,
I get the following error, when I try to open the homepage:

Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 5]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'mtpaginationpages' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580)

The error appears exactly after the first entry on the homepage.
Is it possible to fix it or should I wait for an update?
Thanks.

PS: I use MT 4.1

Mobilguru,

This plugin cannot currently be used on pages that use MT's PHP-dynamic publishing system. If you change to static publishing then this error will go away. A future version of the plugin may support PHP-dynamic publishing.

Av... :-(
I was so glad that I found this plugin. Apparently there is no way to create a "next" and "previous" link under entries in a category to be able to read the older items. You have to choose between all or an amount you specify in the settings :-(
Do you have any approx. date on when the new plugin will be available?
Thank you in advance Mark.

And I forgot to write... Problem with static publishing is that you have to remember to "publish" and wait for it to finish :-(

Hi Mark,

I am able to deploy the pagination plug-in on my system and now able to view the page numbers in the footer. But once i click on the page numbers i am redirected to blank page with only pagination visible...
Only when i click on page number 1 i.e. first page I am able to see the content ...
Please help me where I am making mistake....

Hi ,

I found the solution to my problem.....

Anyone who is facing this problem can try the below steps..

1: In the apache folder search for "httpd.conf" file...
2: Now open that file and uncomment the "LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so" if it is commented...
3: Now in the same file search for the directory section...
In the directory tag give the file path of .htaccess file ..in my case it is in example folder and then set the AllowOverride to "FollowSymLinks"...

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo

Mark,

I had to remove the plug-in after 3 weeks as I had no solution to my issue. I've re-uploaded the plug-in and followed the directions and still experience the issue.

Would you mind taking a look and letter me know if you can find the issue.

My MT install is at: http://www.jrgeoffrion.com/cgi-bin/MT/

And the .htaccess is the www.jrgeoffrion.com root.

Thanks in advance.

JR

Hi Mark,
I have install this plugin and seem it 's work pretty well, but when I click to other page 5 or 6 or 7, it still shows page 1. Please let me know how to fix this.

Using MT 4.1 - Pagination and Cache Block - Was working before Cache Block instal. Pagination works on Catagory pages noe on Main Index.

Anyone seeing this error?

Can't locate object method "build" via package "Force" (perhaps you forgot to load "Force"?) at lib/Pagination/App/Viewer.pm line 330.

Update - line 319 and 320 seems to deal with MT Template.

my $ctx = MT::Template::Context->new;
$ctx->stash( 'blog', $blog );

According to 4.1 updated release notes there is a memory leak in MTTemplate.

Could this be the issue? Do you have any suggestions for a temp work around? I guess shot off Pagination?

Mark - please help when you return.

I fear my problem had something to do with Cache Block(CB). I have removed CB - yet i continue to get the above error on the index.php page.

Here's where it gets interesting... works great on Category pages

What could possibly be different about the Index page to warrant this result.

Note: I do have an old .htaccess file from the updated site. It has the Movable Type inserted code dynamic to make dynamic publishing work. I tried removing it - but that didn't help, so I put it back in. I am not sure I need it for MT4.1 - but I am running the site with "set ea. template" mode so that I can run Fast Search.

Help when/if you can...

A faithful user MT-Hacks products

Hi, Mark! I'm Nina, from Brazil.
First of all, thanks for all your plugins! I just love your work :)

Well, I'm in a little trouble... recently I installed 2 of your plugins, Templates Installer and Pagination. After I finally made it work (it wasn't so easy because I installed MT in a subdomain and my weblog in another subdomain), I tried to set my blog to show only 2 entries at the main index, but the pagination apparently doesn't recognize this config, so it skips some entries inside the pagination links. I don't know if I'm explaining very well, so I'd appreciate if you could go there http://www.confusionless.com/teste4 and take a look.

Sorry for the bad english

Thanks in advance
Nina :)

I've installed the plugin as directed, and in general it's working as advertised, except... (and this is a big one)... my index is a php page (not using dynamic publishing; I just use php for various tasks in my sidebar, etc) and this plugin completely breaks the php on pages two and up. Literally, when I view the source of these pages I see comments reading <!-- php stripped out --> wherever an echo should be (and you can actually see the php code in the source, meaning it's not being evaluated by the server).

So, wtf is up with that? And...

1) Can I fix this somehow?
2) If not, if the plugin is simply incompatible with php, you really ought to make that clear so people don't waste time downloading and installing it.

Anybody can look at my blog and tell me where my error is located? The address is www.jrgeoffrion.com/blog/

I haven't been able to make this work since February 12th and can't seem to get a timely answer.

Otherwise, does anyone have an alternate plug-in solution?

Mark, please help us :)

Thanks in advance

Did anyone here made the pagination links list more or less than 10 entries per page successfully? Because when I customize it to show more or less than 10 entries, the first page shows correctly, but the other pages show the wrong entries. Please help :)

Thanks in advance

Hi,

This is definitely a great plugin for MT. I had successfully did the installation and necessary setup as instruct by this page.

However, when click on my page 1, 2, 3, ..... its still show the main page of my blog! anyone can tell me whats wrong? Thanks a lot

Cheers,
Jerry Ong

I would like to purchase the lic, but I am having the same problem as Jerry and Supatclub.

I also got a smarty error whenever I clicked on the next or 2, 3, 4 pages of the pagination on both the index and the archives. I had to remove the plugin, which is so frustrating because I'd love to have pagination! Is there a different solution? My pages are all statically built with .php ending.

Hi Mark,

I just implemented the Paginate plugin on MT4.1. Everything seemed to go fine but when I click on another page I get the same Page Not Found error that people above are getting. The page that is displayed appears to be generated from pages.cgi or somewhere else in MT. It is not my standard 404 error page.

Do you have any ideas that I can try? I'm trying to launch my site in MT4 very soon and I need to get things working smooth. I just bought your EntryPost plugin for the re-launch and it works great!

Thanks,
Ron
P.S. - If you want to see what it is doing go to my dev site, http://www.ihatemycubicle.com/CloneofIHMC/.

Hi,

I'm having the same problem as Jerry above, that is:

"However, when click on my page 1, 2, 3, ..... its still show the main page of my blog! anyone can tell me whats wrong?"

Has the developer of the plug in stopped responding to questions? If so, is there another resource that could help us?

Any one, please help!

Thanks in advance
Vincent

Here's a tip if clicking on 1, 2, 3, etc produces anomalous behavior:

Make sure your .htaccess "lastn" value matches the lastn value you're using in your template. For example, my MT:Entries tag had lastn="2" (for testing purposes), but in the .htaccess line, it was sending lastn="10". So on each page, Pagination was pulling out 10 entries and only two were being shown.

The .htaccess line looks like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=1&lastn=2&idx=index.html&path=/mypatch/$1 [L,QSA]

As I said, make sure the lastn value shown above matches that of your template tags.

That's all,
Kyle

Never got it to work. Had to switch to another pagination option. I'll check back occasionally to see if there is a fix.

Here is what I use now...
http://www.aldenbates.com/plugins/pagedarchives.html

Hi Mark,

I have no skills on the backend, but seeing this plugin gave me an idea for a feature I'd love to have - which this plugin may or may not support? (sorry I'm not so swift with interpreting the programming language)

I would like to paginate certain series of posts, for instance: A Tale of a Once-Upon-A-Summer Sailor has seven entries (that I called chapters). It would be sweet to have them linked in chronological sequence with that "next" feature .... skipping the entries in-between that are about other things. I did see a conditional code ... but my question is

could I then do this over again for other series? For instance, the entries re Dialogue under Occupation II?

If this is, indeed, what your plugin enables, how much support will you give me until I learn how to manipulate this all myself?

I have written Mark several times about the error I have. Over a period of several months - no reply.

The requested URL //plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi was not found on this server.

You think after purchasing the product that I could receive some support.

This is very disappointing and makes me wary of purchasing other plugins.

not worked for me, i do every job that you said, and for showing page after page one, got 404 error, not found...

I get this error after installing Pagination on 4.2rc4 with Dynamic Publishing:

Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 5]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'mtpaginationpages' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580)

Is there a patch or a workaround?

Thanks

Sorry to all for the delayed reply.

There are some common problems reported, I will try to address each:

Smarty Errors
The template tags for this plugin arr currently supported under static publishing only. A future version may include support for MT's php-based dynamic publishing.

Page 2+ look the same as Main Index
The .htaccess file is missing the rules for the Pagination plugin, or there is another error with the htaccess file. See step 5 above for details, but you at least 3 lines in your .htaccess, that look something like the follow (note: this is different for each server and blog):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=1&lastn=10&idx=index.html&path=/$1 [L,QSA]

Note that the last line is one long line, starting with RewriteRule and ending with [L,QSA]. To build your own version of this, rebuild the include template and then copy and paste the resulting rules into your .htaccess file. If you already have an existing .htaccess file and already have a line that reads "RewriteEngine On", then place the Pagination rules immediately below that line (you only need one line that says RewriteEngine On.

404 Page Not Found on Pages 2+
There are a few possible causes for this one:

I hope this helps with some of the common problems. Please reply if any of these don't work. Posting links to your implementation can be helpful, as well as details of your htaccess file.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the followup with all of us on the .htaccess file and Page Not Found issues . . .

I was first exhibiting the problem where page #2 (and succeeding pages) return the same resuilt as page #1. Turned out that I had not renamed the "htaccess.txt" file to ".htaccess" properly. Note to all of you out there exhibiting the same result: don't forget to put the "period" symbol in front of "htaccess". Finally noticed it after looking at Mark's explanation numerous times.

Problem is, once I renamed the .htaccess file properly, then I started exhibiting the "styled as my blog" Page not Found error. I've reviewed the paths in my .htaccess file (below) and they all seem fine:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=5&lastn=10&idx=index.html&path=/local_news/$1[L,QSA]

The offending blog (id #5) is in a subdirectory called "local_news" that resides at the root of the domain. The cgi-bin directory is likewise a folder at the domain root. The syntax for both of these mirror your example.

I went back and made sure the pages.cgi file was CHMOD-ed to 755.

Not sure what else to check . . .

FYI, the site we're developing is at http://www.cobbcircle.net/index2.html and the blog that is exhibiting the Pagination issue is at http://www.cobbcircle.net/localnews/index.html Thanks.

Sorry, the correct syntax for the blog with the pagination issue is http://www.cobbcircle.net/local_news/index2.html

Geez I misspelled it again:

http://www.cobbcircle.net/local_news/index.html

Mark, thanks for pointing out that I had to publish the htaccess.txt and use that for my entry into .htaccess

Here are the first lines of that file;

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /MT-4.13-en/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=1&lastn=4&idx=index.html&path=/blog2/$1 [L,QSA]

order allow,deny
allow from all

deny from 65.119.25.226
deny from 81.95.144.66
deny from 65.160.238.180

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bizop.ca$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bizop.ca$
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://bizop.ca/blog2/ [R=301,L]

My blog is at the subdirectory blog2 of bizop.ca

I am now getting the error "Page not found", not a 404 error. See: http://www.bizop.ca/blog2/index.html?page=2

Suggestions?

After some playing around with the re-write rule, I got it to work.

I put the rewrite after all my other rules, because I have a permanent re-direct of bizop.ca to bizop.ca/blog2, and then I removed "blog2" from the rule.

Works fine now on the main page, I will use it on category and subcategory pages.

Yeah!

I'm having the same problem some other folks have mentioned, that all of the numbered pages just wind up giving me a copy of the main index page. I've checked to make sure my .htaccess code is correct and that the lastn values match up. I even tried using a new .htaccess file with just the rewrite code for this plugin, to no avail, so I know it's not my .htaccess file. Something seems broken, and I hate to think I paid for some worthless code. Thoughts?

Never mind - all square now, and it's working quite well.

So I've run into a new issue. I use cron to run MT's periodic-tasks file, so that scheduled posts can be published. So far, three scheduled posts have been published and for two of them, the server resources went to pot for about 1-2 minutes, and I got the following error message e-mailed to me from the cron daemon: "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /public_html/mt/plugins/Pagination/lib/Pagination/Tags.pm line 63." Any thoughts?

Mark, did you get a chance to look at my comments above regarding the continuing Page Not Found error? Have gone through all your suggestions and still getting the error. Maybe I'm missing something, but frustrated, and need to find a solution ASAP. Thanks.

Hi Mark

I've been using this plugin and it's been working great, but i've just tried it out on a 4.2 install and I'm getting a error when rebuilding.

Can't use string ('00000001000000") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at /var/www/cgi-bin/mtcs4.2_clean/plugins/Pagination/Tags.pm line 43.

Does pagination work on 4.2 or should i wait for a patch?

Well, after a large amount of hair-pulling over the last few weeks, we've managed to get our Pagination Pro installation working. Although we were at first a bit tweaked about not getting a solution response from Mark - in his defense - it seems that we MIGHT have caused our own problem by accidentally inserting an extra carriage return at the end of the .htaccess file when we copied the contents over from htaccess.txt. Since we also upgraded to version 1.5 before discovering the extra carriage return, we're not sure what caused the solution, though we caution everyone who's having the same problem as we were (404 error page styled like the rest of your site) to do 3 steps in this order: 1) follow Mark's instructions to make sure your blog directory syntax in the resultant htaccess file is correct if your blog resides BENEATH the main domain level (Although the "mt:BlogRelativeURL" tag seems to do it correctly on its own in our installation); 2) Check for extra carriage returns being inserted in your .htaccess file when code is copied over from the htaccess.txt file (I know it seems odd, but I don't trust ANY aberration in these little text files); and 3) Upgrade to version 1.5. Whew.

Hey Mark,

I followed all the directions but every time I go to preview my Main Index template I get this error:

"Can't call method "outfile" on an undefined value at /(my-MT-stuff-folder)/plugins/Pagination/lib/Pagination/Tags.pm line 67."

What does this mean?

What am I doing wrong?

I really wanna paginate w/o error.

Please help.

Adam Benjamin Irby

Hi,

I just purchased the Pro version for my blog, and I cannot get it to work. I installed a previous version (1.01) on a friend's blog, where it works magnificently.

The blog where I am trying to use it is a fresh install of MT4.21. The only unusual thing is that the blog I wish to paginate is in a subdirectory

http://bettinamay.com/poem/

I am getting a 404 error, not styled like my blog. I double checked that the permissions were set correctly on the pages.cgi file. I tried the .htaccess file that comes with the 1.5 version of the plugin, and I tried a version that explicitly set the blog id and path.

So neither
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=&lastn=10&idx=&path=$1 [L,QSA]

nor
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=2&lastn=10&idx=index.html&path=/poem/$1 [L,QSA]

works for me.

Can you offer any assistance.

Thanks in advance
Bettina May

hi mark

I have a question relating the .htacess file.

I have MT installed on the portal www.kelp.cl.
I am confused with the part where I need to install or rewrite the .htacess file.
I have installed all the templates on the server and the codes on the website www.kelp.cl BUT I think I only need to configure my .htacess file.
On the MT templates there is only the: HTACESS for Pagination htaccess.txt (static).

The question is:
Do I need to create a new template with the output: .htacess?
If so what do I have to do then?

As you can see I am very interested in finding a solution and also no great programmer ;)

I'd be glad if you could help me out at info@kelp.cl

Regards from Chile
Axel

Hi,

I've got the plugin working, it's awesome, thanks! However, because I have MT4.23 installed on a different domain, the paginated pages are showing a different URL.

For example, http://www.jenius.com.au/index.php?page=3 will show up in the browser address bar as http://iatemywaythrough.com/mt/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?blog_id=2&lastn=2&idx=index.php&path=/index.php&page=3.

Is there any way to mask this URL and only show http://www.jenius.com.au/index.php?page=3?

Thanks,
Jen

Hey, Mark. I too am having the problem of every subsequent page showing the content of my initial page. My problem, I think, is that the url in the htaccess.txt file is not finding the plugin.

Originally, you have <mt:CGIRelativeURL>plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi

My <mt:CGIRelativeURL>, though, is: /blogadmin/ -- and my plugins directory is in /srv/www/movabletype/ -- I imagine this poses a problem ... because I cannot get your plugin to work.

/srv/www/movabletype/ is where all of the CMS-related files are

/srv/www/blogs/ is where all of the html content is located.

Could you help shed some light on this recurring first-page content problem, please? Thanks.

Also, your example blog: http://mt-hacks.com/mt41/index.php?page=3 goes to page not found on your paginated pages.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the report about my test blog -- I will check on that.

If pages 2+ are showing the same as the initial page, then, yes, this indicates a potential problem with your htaccess rules not get triggered properly.

What is the content of your htaccess file? Can you are URL of the site you are using it on?

I don't think this is an issue with your file/path structure. If it was having trouble finding the pages.cgi script, you would probably get a 404 Not Found error, or maybe even a 500 Internal Server error. Your problem seems be with the triggering of the rule. Remember to ensure that the file is named .htaccess -- a few people have forgetten to rename the the file and left it as htaccess.txt, which won't work.

Hi, Mark. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. You're right about the htaccess.txt file ... I did leave it as .txt.

I'll look over again what you recommend us to do if we already have a .htaccess file ... but if you wouldn't mind posting a response, too, I'd appreciate it. I just don't want to interfere with the file that already exists.

Mark, sorry to spam you like this, but what I'm looking for is the specific directory into which I should put the .htaccess file. Should it be in my blog's htdocs directory or at the CGI root of the MT install? Or elsewhere?

Thanks.

I promise I'll try to make this my last post ... I have widgets on my MT pages that contain PHP code, but that code is being stripped out by your pagination plugin. Is there a way to easily prevent or circumvent this? I need that PHP to populated certain variables in those widgets, without it, my pages aren't rendering as I intended.

Also, where do I set the $pagination_offset variable?

Thanks again, Mark. And thanks for making this brilliant plugin. It's working like a charm now aside from that PHP conflict.

Steve, it seems you have figured out where the .htacess should go, but to confirm, it should go in the blog root directory (same place as you main index). If you have an existing .htaccess with rewrite rules, then put the rules right after the "RewriteEngine On" line -- note that you only need one "RewriteEngine On" line in the file. Again, it seems liek you are okay on this part now.

The $pagination_offset variable gets set by the pages.cgi script, so you don't have to set it in your template, it is preset. You do need to add the offset="$pagination_offset" to your MTEntries tag, as described above.

There is no way to execute PHP on pages 2+, as they are being dynamically rendered by Perl. Depending on what you are trying to do with the PHP, there may be alternatives that you can use to do the same thing. One example, which may not work in your case, is for PHP includes:

<mt:If name="pagination_page_number">
<mt:Include file="file.php">
<mt:Else>
<?php include("file.php") ?>
</mt:if>

Note that the "pagination_page_number" will be true only on pages 2+, where PHP won't work.

thanks for all

Mark, sorry to spam you منتديات الوله

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Thanks.

@Adam Benjamin Irby:

If you happen to come back someday, or if others are helped with the same 'outfile' issue, I had it too with MT 4.24 with Pro Pack. Here is the simple workaround that worked for me:

I commented out the offending line in Tags.pm, then previewed/saved my template, and then uncommented the line again. I think all is working fine :-)

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Hi
Just to clarify something. Does the basic or the pro version work with multiblog?
I have got the free version to work ok for a blog and the pagination works ok on the first page of the multiblog listing (i want to list all entries 100 at a time off all blogs) but pages 2 etc do not work.

I have a root dir of /archives/ that has an .htaccess in it that i have tried to hack to ....

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Pagination/pages.cgi?lastn=100&idx=index.html&path=/archives/$1 [L,QSA]

But I get no love from the above.
So is it doable or not. Do i need a different version?

Thanks

Mark (or anyone else who knows this issue)

I'm getting a "Page Not Found" in the author archives of my blogs.

http://blogs.chesterchronicle.co.uk/cheshire-memories/

If you click on "My Postings" by any of the authors you enter the author's archives. Once there the pagination fails to work and only brings up a "Page Not Found" error.

Pagination seems to work for the whole site, such as index page and categories archive, but fails at author archives.

Anything you can tell me will help

Thanks

hi,

does this pagination plug-in work with MT5?

Great to hear the story of how things actually developed leading up to the launch of the station. It seems that there was a lot of luck involved.