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Now that you can (somewhat) easily create an alternate request template for MT-Notifier, it's only natural that there are some of you out there who might want to translate the thing into different languages. Luckily, translating MT-Notifier has been possible for quite some time. In fact, some form of translation hooks have been present in the code since way back in version 2.0.1, released in 2004!

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that the translation has always worked since then - but I've done my best to make sure that everything was in place so that it would work when everything was functioning correctly, and lately it seems that just about everything has been doing just that. You do have to follow a few steps to make sure that your translation file works correctly, however. There are two places that your file will be used - inside the application and outside the application, and for this, there are two ways that you need to consider changes that you might make. Follow along to find out what you might need to do to make sure that your changes are being picked up by the plugin.

For some time, users of MT-Notifier have been wondering how they could customize the request template, to provide a more unified experience for their users. Until recently, this was simply not a realistic goal. However, with version 4.1.1, you can now do just that. It still takes a bit of work, but it's easier now than it has ever been to do so, and you can do it in such a way that it's easy to revert to the default templates - an important function for just about anyone.

Before getting started, it's always important to make a backup of everything you are about to change. While most templates are changed through the Movable Type interface - and one day this might also be available - at this point, you still have to do it by using a template file. Small steps for now. So, the first thing you should do is make sure that you have a backup of the entire tmpl directory under the Notifier directory. That way, you can restore things if you need to do so. Ready? Then read on.

• Added component name to request template.

Licensed users of MT-Notifier v4 can re-download from your unique download link to obtain the updated version.

This feature means you will be more easily able to customize the screen shown when processing requests handled by MT-Notifier (confirmations). Watch for an entry on doing just that, coming on Monday.

Do you have a large subscriber base? As you probably know, until recently, trying to manage that list of subscribers has not been an easy task. Way back in the early days of MT-Notifier you had to do all your subscriber management through a series of drop-down menus. Then a rudimentary admin interface was created by Blumunky, and finally back in version 3.5.0, I added an actual, honest-to-goodness interface to the plugin itself. But as you have likely discovered, paging through a number of entries (thousands, hundreds, or even dozens) to find one of those subscribers is still a bit unpleasant, and it's just not ideal.

With recent versions of Movable Type, it became possible for plugins to register their own object types (like subscriptions). Those objects could even be searched based on registering a search API. But until recently, I had been unable to crack that code (sometimes the code is, shall we say, less than well-documented). So if you had tried to use the Search Subscriptions box in the upper-right corner to actually help speed the process of finding a subscription in your monstrous list of subscribers, you would be met with an ugly error message. No more.

• Added modified timestamp to subscription records.
• Cleaned up subscription record management template.
• Completed review of code, language strings and templates.
• Corrected in-place-editing of subscriptions.
• Corrected search function for subscriptions.
• Fixed itemset action menu items and display of status.

Licensed users of MT-Notifier v4 can re-download from your unique download link to obtain the updated version.

• Added callback for AtomServer.
• Added links to subscribed pages.
• Brought mtplugin.pkg up to date.
• Corrected issue with blog_id and blog in sub listing.
• Removed notification.tmpl (replaced with separate ones in 4.0.5).

Licensed users of MT-Notifier v4 can re-download from your unique download link to obtain the updated version.