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\nI’ve been doing some work with Movable Type<\/a> using the ExtraFields plugin<\/a> recently.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne problem I had was offering an alternative if an extra field hadn’t been set. It turns out that it’s possible to nest an <MTElse><\/a> in the <MTIfExtraField><\/a> tag.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s an example. I have an extrafield called externalurl<\/var> on an entry, if it exists I want to use that for the link, if not I want to use the entry’s permalink.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThis basically gives us the functionality of a <MTElseExtraField> tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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