MT Hack: More Detailed Comments Notification

I have actually had this hack in place for some time, but never thought about posting it until I wrote up the Hack on Trackback notifications.

So, if you would like your New Comments notification e-mails to be a little more descriptive, here is what I've done:

Go to:
yourMTDirectory/lib/MT/App

and open Comments.pm (be sure to make a backup).

On or around line #122, look for:

'[' . $blog->name . '] New Comment Posted' );

And replace it with:

'New Comment on [' . $entry->title . ']' );

Now your e-mail subject line will tell you what article received a new comment.

Instead of this boring (zzzz), worthless subject line:

[PromoGuy dot Net] New Comment

You get this:

New Comment on [Monday Mission 2.34]

Of course, if you have multiple Blogs, you may want to retain:

[' . $blog->name . ']

If so, then try something like this:

'Blog: [' . $blog->name . '] Has a New Comment on [' . $entry->title . '] '

And if you want to customize your comment message even more, be sure to look at my other Comments Hack.

Hope this helps!

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Posted by on August 26, 2002 @ August 26, 2002 11:02 AM    
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