Nick O'Neill just published a great screencast and howto about using a plugin few people know about: Mark Pasc's Order plugin for Movable Type.
Order is a plugin that allows one to build and merge a list of content from various sources and then to sort and display them in a single list together. What is especially powerful about the Order plugin is the ability to not only pull together content form multiple sources, but also the ability to collate content of wildly different structures and types.
In Nick's screencast he shows how he used this plugin on his own Movable Type-powered blog to interleave entries from two different blogs, as well as actions from Mark's Action Stream plugin into a single list on his homepage. He even makes available the code he uses on his own blog so that others can easily replicate it.
Order Screencast from nick o'neill on Vimeo.
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