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!

3 TrackBacks

New Notification Hack from M@ri@nn's Pl@ce on August 26, 2002 11:13 AM

PromoGuy posted a new Movable Type hack that provides more detail when the email notification arrives. I've already implemented his Read More

MovableType tweaks, continued from The Long Letter on September 2, 2002 6:24 PM

Yes, ladies and gents, it's another in my rapidly-growing list of complete geek posts. Enjoy! Read More

Goddess Praising from Gray Cloud on November 3, 2002 8:09 PM

I thought I would take this time to share with you the features that I've implemented to my blog. I found these comment hacks over at ScriptyGoddess. The first, second, and third are from PromoGuy. They include more detailed comment notifications, info... Read More

8 Comments

Pretty wifty. I have it set up now. All I have to do now is get some Trackbacks.

Brian Peace | August 26, 2002 4:56 PM | Reply

Look at that!! Neato!
I'm going to have to make you the token male on scriptygoddess!! ;-)

Jennifer | August 26, 2002 9:17 PM | Reply

Previewing your Comment
Is this also for readers who signed up for notification? or mail-this-entry?

I have a Dutch Blog and I don't like it that the messages to readers are mixed in language. Where would I go to hack them? (I wish they were templates too, HTML-mail preferably)

Thanks for the posting of your hack, it works!

Quadsk8 | August 27, 2002 3:06 AM | Reply

Damn. You rock. Thank you for that - I'll put it in to place tonight! Whoo hoo!!!

Christine | August 27, 2002 1:56 PM | Reply

Way cool! Thank you so much.

David | August 27, 2002 8:38 PM | Reply

hi
i have a problem and i had to know hack.
i want to know my friend's email profile or her password.please help me to know because i said her that i'm a hacker but i'm not.
tanks

samad | December 8, 2002 12:46 AM | Reply

dont completely understand how to get someones IP address...i dont kno wut MT is...can someone explain to me how to get someones IP address, that talks to me on instant messenger....and also how can u hack into someones email account, its really important...please help me w/ these 2 things!!

G-PRIME | March 25, 2005 7:44 PM | Reply

i want tio hack

julietjones | July 20, 2005 7:07 AM | Reply