Yesterday we started to list in greater detail all of the new features users will find in Movable Type 4.0. Today, we pick up where we left off and explore ten more features we introduced to help make Movable Type a more powerful publishing platform, while adding feature to make Movable Type easier to use then ever before.
- A powerful and simple re-sizable WYSIWYG Editor, with automatic saving of drafts of entries and templates -- never lose a half-written post again
- Built-in cross-blog aggregation: Publish pages that include data from some, all, or just one of your blogs
- The world's smartest template language, with boolean logic for choosing which content to display. ("Show me posts by 'Jane' in the category 'music' with tags 'bass NOT fish'.")
- Live preview shows you your entry before you publish, with full fidelity to your live blog
- Smart controls like auto-complete for tags, a calendar selector for scheduling future-dated entries, and a completely redone UI for selecting and creating categories
- Support for publishing standalone pages that automatically use blog templates and designs
- Better plain-text entry with built-in support for Markdown and Textile, and conversion of MS Word "smart" quotes to HTML entities
- Even more SEO-friendly with customizable URLs per entry, per-template, or per-page
- A simple integrated IDE for templates, with smart error reporting for template typos
- Paginated archives -- easily walk your users through posts by date or author or category
Sara on June 20, 2007, 1:14 p.m. Reply
About item 19:
Does that mean that we have “real” pagination of category archives and not just category by month?
Sara on June 20, 2007, 3:48 p.m. Reply
No problem Byrne.
Jay Allen on June 22, 2007, 2:20 p.m. Reply
Sounds like an an excellent candidate for a bug report, regardless of whether you’re doing something wrong or not.
Byrne, the feedback form is the appropriate place for bugs, is it not?
(Gee, I sure wish that nifty newly bundled Markdown plugin was in effect here in the comments…. Hint hint… :-)
Joan on July 12, 2012, 6:55 a.m. Reply
You have to add that the code is not everything. You need to have some writing skills. However, I don’t want to say that a good plugin is not going to help you, but without interesting writing nobody will stay on your blog.
Viola T.D. on August 1, 2012, 7:44 a.m. Reply
We have to add the most important thing. You need to be a good writer.
Robert Thomas on August 28, 2012, 1:15 a.m. Reply
Is it possible to change the title tag to be different than the headings?
Joe Robertson on September 18, 2012, 1:46 a.m. Reply
Hi, a newbie question here. How can I have SEO friendly url for template?
Delano on October 26, 2012, 4:56 a.m. Reply
I think that the most valuable change between Moveable Type 3 and 4th series is the WYSIWYG Editor. It boomed MT to the sky :)
Pete Corbon on November 14, 2012, 7:53 p.m. Reply
The customizable URLs are really great. I have the option to write a different title, a different URL, but can I also write a different title tag?
George Williamson on November 25, 2012, 3:24 p.m. Reply
These are interesting options and addons to Movable Type. My eyes caught number 17. I know that editable URL is really benefiting the SEO, but I don’t understand how could we use the template tags for better search engine optimization.
Barrie on December 19, 2012, 2:26 a.m. Reply
Hi, can I ask how the function number eleven “Built-in cross-blog aggregation: Publish pages that include data from some, all, or just one of your blogs” is dealing with the duplicate content which is so let’s say it hate by the search engines?
Amanda Jones on December 21, 2012, 5:53 a.m. Reply
Hi, Barrie you need simply to add a Rel:Canonical to your code and everything will be just fine. Hope that helps :)