Summary and Conclusion

You have done well young Padawan. You now possess all of the fundamentals of Movable Type plugin development to create just about anything. Of course the complexity of your config.yaml and your source code will vary with the scope and ambition of your plugin, but the basic pattern has been established for creating any feature in Movable Type:

1. Layout the structure of your plugin.

2. Create a config.yaml for your plugin that defines its basic structure.

3. Create a Plugin.pm file that contains the logic, or source code of your plugin.

4. Document your code.

In subsequent sections of this guide we will discuss additional and more advanced techniques in extending and adding features to Movable Type.