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Top Rebuild Button

Around line 121 you will see

</div>
</TMPL_IF>

Actually you will see two blocks that look like the above, you want to look at the second. Replace the second set with the following:

<TMPL_UNLESS NAME=NEW_OBJECT> <TMPL_UNLESS NAME=BUILD_DYNAMIC> <TMPL_IF NAME=HAS_REBUILD> <form class="inline" action="<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>" onsubmit="return false;"> <input type="button" onClick="window.location='<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>?__mode=start_rebuild&blog_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_ID>&next=0&type=index-<TMPL_VAR NAME=ID>&tmpl_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=ID>&single_template=1'" value="<MT_TRANS phrase="Rebuild">" /> </form> </TMPL_IF> </TMPL_UNLESS> </TMPL_UNLESS> </div> </TMPL_IF>

Bottom Rebuild Button

Now we'll edit the rebuild button found at the bottom of the page. Normally if you click this button, it would popup a window and make you click another button to actually initiate the rebuild, not anymore. Search edit_template.tmpl for the following line

<input type="button" onclick="doRebuildOne(<TMPL_VAR NAME=ID>)" value="<MT_TRANS phrase="Rebuild">" />

and replace it with

<form class="inline" action="<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>" onsubmit="return false;"> <input type="button" onClick="window.location='<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>?__mode=start_rebuild&blog_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_ID>&next=0&type=index-<TMPL_VAR NAME=ID>&tmpl_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=ID>&single_template=1'" value="<MT_TRANS phrase="Rebuild">" /> </form>

Rebuild Site

A day after I implemented this hack, the "Rebuild Site" button on the left navigation menu still caused popups and annoyed me so, I hacked that template as well:

First open up header.tmpl and search for

href="#" onclick="window.open('<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>?__mode=rebuild_confirm&blog_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_ID>', 'rebuild', 'width=400,height=300,resizable=yes')"

and replace it with

href="<TMPL_VAR NAME=SCRIPT_URL>?__mode=rebuild_confirm&blog_id=<TMPL_VAR NAME=BLOG_ID>"

Next, in three templates:

• rebuild_confirm.tmpl
• rebuilding.tmpl
• rebuilt.tmpl

find at the top

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="header-popup.tmpl">

and replace it with

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="header.tmpl">

and then do the same with the bottom of the templates:

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="footer-popup.tmpl">

becomes

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="footer.tmpl">

Finally, delete the following line from rebuilt.tmpl

<input type="button" onclick="window.close()" value="<MT_TRANS phrase="Close">" />

and voila ! All rebuilds in Movable Type are done within the system, no popups whatsoever !

If you feel uncomfortable with hacking files but would like to have this hack, please contact me and I will quote you a price for the installation.