What’s new in Movable Type 5.1

Introducing Movable Type 5.1

Supported browsers

Movable Type 5.1 supports the following browsers and versions.

• Internet Explorer 8 ( IE9 will be supported in the coming release )
• Safari latest
• Firefox latest

New features

• Managing categories and folders
  • Drag & drop sorting
  • New attributes (sort_by and sort_order) for <mt:SubCategories> , <mt:TopLevelCategories> , <mt:Subfolders> and <mt:TopLevelFolders> tags.
  • <mt:EntryPrimaryCategory> tag
• Managing contents by a new listing screen
  • Detailed display options
  • Custom filters
  • Bulk actions by selecting all from multiple pages
  • The listing framework for developers
• MultiBlog tags
  • include_blogs
  • exclude_blogs
  • include_websites
  • exclude_websites
• <mt:Include> tag with the parent="1" attribute to include the module in the parent website.
• trim_to modifier with ellipsis
• Use blog_id param to specify the template when searching multi blogs with IncludeBlogs param. Use the first blog in includeblogs if blog_id is not specified.
• Configuration Directives
  • LocalLib was added
  • Support Imager as an ImageDriver
• Usability enhancements
  • Drag and drop input fields on Edit Entries/Pages
  • Selecting publish status from pulldown and saving from the preview
  • Better "included templates" widget
  • Template editor's syntax highlight On/Of