Since one of the coolest things I get to do each week is read the Monday Missions, I rely on comment and trackback notification e-mails to alert me to new postings.
One of the things I didn't like about trackback notifications was that the e-mail header was so generic. It always looked like:
"[PromoGuy dot Net] New TrackBack Ping"
Well hell! That doesn't tell me a thing! I wanted to know what entry was being "pinged" and what site it was from.
So, that is why I developed this simple hack:
Just go to
yourMTDirectory/lib/MT/App
And open up Trackback.pm (be sure to make a backup).
Look for this line (#202 in MT 2.21):
'[' . $blog->name . '] New TrackBack Ping' );
And replace it with this line:
'New TrackBack on [' . $entry->title . '] from [' . $ping->blog_name . ']' );
Your Trackback e-mail notification will now look something like this:
New TrackBack on [My Mouth Is Doing the Happy Dance] from [PromoGuy dot Net]
MUCH BETTER!!! Of course, you may customize the message any way you would like.
If you would like to customize the message, here is what I did. In Trackback.pm, go down one line and look for:
MT::Mail->send(\%head, <<BODY);
Just under that line, I changed this:
A new TrackBack ping has been sent to your blog, on the $what.
