January 5, 2010
Movable Type 5
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Crack the champagne! Movable Type 5 is ready for you to download and give it a roll. Download Movable Type 5.01 (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Movable Type 5.01 - commercial license Movable Type Open Source 5.01 - open source license This is a great milestone in the 8 years of Movable Type history. Some long-awaited features are now available: Websites for grouping blogs together. Themes with full support for custom fields, static files, templates, categories, folders, etc for blogs and websites. Revision History for entries, pages, and templates. Custom Fields for all objects. User Dashboard for quick access to the most used blogs and websites. …and much more. We’re excited that all of these features derived from real-world use cases requested by enthusiastic customers using Movable Type. A big thanks to the customers building beautiful things with Movable Type. And huge thanks goes out to everyone on the Movable Type team to design, build and test this release. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting articles and adding to the documentation to help you take advantage of the new features in Movable Type. Documentation We’ve got a lot of new docs that are being reviewed…
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December 10, 2009
Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Jan 5th, 2010
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We’ve determined that there are a few issues we need to resolve in Movable Type 5 before the official worldwide launch. In order to resolve these issues and due to the holiday season, the release of Movable Type 5 has been postponed untill January 5th, 2010. The latest release candidate builds of Movable Type 5 are available: Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Warning! - This beta software is not recommended for any production environment. Between now and Jan 5th we’ll be producing new documentation and updating existing documentation. We’ll be highlighting new documentation on this blog, you can find the latest updates on the following pages: Recently Updated Documentation MT5 specific documentation If you have questions about Movable Type: listen to the MT5 Q & A Conference Call discuss Movable Type on the MTOS-dev mailing list read and post questions in the Movable Type Forums submit a bug, feature request or get paid support…
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December 5, 2009
Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Dec 16th
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In order to launch Movable Type 5 with more developer documentation, we’ve decided to delay the release of MT5 until December 16th. In the meantime we’ve made the latest release candidate builds of Movable Type 5 available: Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Warning! - This beta software is not recommended for any production environment. If you have questions about this release candidate or Movable Type 5: listen to the MT5 Q & A Conference Call discuss Movable Type on the MTOS-dev mailing list read and post questions in the Movable Type Forums submit a bug, feature request or get paid support If your question doesn’t fit into one of the above places add a comment to this post and we’ll get back to you….
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December 3, 2009
MT5 Q & A Conference Call
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You have questions about MT5, we have answers… Six Apart will host two half-hour calls this Friday to answer all your questions about MT5. Update: Fri, Dec 4 1:30pm Listen to the recorded conference call…. Answers to these questions and more will be placed into an official FAQ released with MT5….
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December 2, 2009
Rewritten Install & Upgrade Documentation for Movable Type
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George Drapeau recently wrote about his experience Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris. Though George seems to be technially savvy, installation of MT is not always easy because each server environment in which it is installed is different. A few months ago (with the help of a few Perl hackers at Six Apart), I wrote a step-by-step guide to Install Movbale Type on a Mac which required the installation of a foundation of software commonly pre-installed by most web hosting companies. This included Xcode Tools (specific to MacOS), MySQL, PHP5, Perl modules, Image Magick and common image libraries. While I can install Movable Type without assistance, I needed guidance to install the system software which is commonly installed by most web hosting providers. When a web host meets the system requirements for Movable Type, installation is as easy as installing any of today’s self-hosted CMS products. I’ve rewritten the install and upgrade guides with a progressive disclosure of detail such that those already comfortable with performing such installations have access to simple guides. These guides will work for both MT4 and MT5. Quick Install Guides Install via FTP using the Configuration Wizard Install via SSH with manual configuration of…
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November 28, 2009
Movable Type 5 Status
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Movable Type 5 will be available December 8th in the US and European markets. It’s been moved one week to provide more time for coordination of the release and associated documentation. MT5 was released in Japan on Nov 26th. Hold tight and you’ll have Movable Type 5 shortly. Thanks. Movable Type 5.0 RC3 was available from Nov 19th to 25th. Because MT5 was released in Japan, we have taken down the betas until MT5 is officially released in the US. Fixes in Movable Type 5 Release Candidate 3 Resolved Issues FogBugz 103151: Yahoo! (and possibly Yahoo! Japan) may have to be removed from the list of commenter auth (Fixed : 103151) FogBugz 103149: funny URL on blog create screen. (Fixed : 103149) Additional known issues on RC3 FogBugz 103142: “Statement has no result columns to bind” error occurs in with old MySQL client. Please update DBI and DBD::mysql. ( 103142)…
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November 18, 2009
Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2
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Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available. Here’s the highlights… A lot of work to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing. Updates to the Professional blog templates Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams The Entry/Page “previous” and “next” container tags now account for entries/pages with the same date-time, rather than skipping them. And many more bug fixes. Release Notes for MT5 RC2 Movable Type 5.0 RC2 Release Notes Resolved Issues in MT5 RC2 Known Issues in MT5.0 “Won’t Fix” in MT5 Download Warning! - This software is not recommended for any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software. Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find. Plugin Support Many MT4 plugins will work with MT5 (or only need minor updates) as much of the core functionality in MT5 hasn’t changed dramatically. Plugins which do not work correctly in MT5 due to the following reasons: The most common reasons for plugins not working in MT5: Plugin relies on a transformers (code which searches for other code to replace) may be broken…
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November 6, 2009
Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 1
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Movable Type 5.0 RC1 is available today. Here are the highlights… New Theme Pico, a clean and simple theme (also available on TypePad and designed by Jim Ramsey) is now bundled with MT5. Styles can also be bundled with a theme to easily offer different flavors of a theme. (Styles are a combination of a stylesheet and images to bundle with a theme.) Documentation MT5 documentation is beginning to appear online. We’re releasing them as they are available: English: www.movabletype.org/documentation/mt5/ Japanese: www.movabletype.jp/documentation/mt5/ Some documents are still in a draft state. Please leave any comments on the individual docs if you have questions or comments. Issues Triaged Resolved Issues in MT5 RC1 Known Issues in MT5.0 “Won’t Fix” in MT5 Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software. Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find. Release Schedule The release schedule has been updated, here’s the current plan: MT5.0 RC2 - scheduled for November 18th. MT5.0 - first week of December (November 26th in Japan) should all go according…
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November 3, 2009
Movable Type 5 Documentation
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Thanks for everyone’s input and suggestions to improve the documentation for MT5. Here’s a list of places to find updated and brand-new documentation: MT5 Documentation Index - an index listing all pages which are tagged Updated for MT5, New in MT5, or Bug in MT5 Recently Updated Documentation One highlight…. Creating themes for MT5 - this was requested by lots of people in the community and should get you started. Our goal is to create a few sample themes, and place them in a GitHub repository. The documentation for MT5 is being initially created by the Japanese Movable Type team as they are leading development of MT5. We’re working with a translator to convert to English and then going through each document to clean it up, reformat it, test it, and add more examples. We’ve been notifying the Japanese team whenever we have significantly changed the document so that they can translate it back to Japanese. Next up is the process of converting the documentation site itself to a more topic-based structure, rather than the current organization (by user-type). We’re converting pages that list tags in Movable Type to index templates with loops to output pages: by folder, tag, etc….
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October 21, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 4
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Movable Type 5.0 Beta 4 has been released! Included is the first website theme for the “Professional Website Theme” and many other bug fixes. This beta is scheduled be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this point we’re targeting for a late November launch of MT5. A more specific date will be available as MT5 code stabilizes. Please report bugs found during your testing. Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software. Resolved Issues in Beta 4 Major changes “Professional Website Theme” is added as a new theme.(102154) WebsiteLabel has changed to WebsiteName (102727) Remove the definition of active users from app (102776) Keep a compatibility of plugins (102731) Create “MultiBlog Trigger” for “All blogs in this website” (102593) MultiBlog Trigger also for “Pages” not only for “Entries” (102627) UI: “Created, Published, Edited” date and time of the entry (102385) DOC: FastCGI: Unable to access with XML-RPC (102513) Note: Because default template sets and global templates have been updated, all template sets (including global templates) must…
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October 6, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 3
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Movable Type 5.0 Beta 3 is ready! Beta 3 includes many improvements based on user feedback. While similar to the previous betas… Beta 3 feels very fresh and new due to the tightening of various user interface elements. Beta 4 will be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this point we’re targeting for a late November launch of MT5. A more specific date will be available as MT5 code stabilizes. Please report bugs found during your testing. Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software. Major Improvements in Beta 3 Automatic website provisioning based upon blog domain names during upgrade from MT4.x and MT3.x 102466. Allow sub-domain blogs under one single website 102466. Selected tab is saved on “Websites and Blogs” widget on the user dashboard, so once the user clicks the “blogs” tab, this tab will be selected upon subsequent visits.(101689) [Create New] shortcut button on Website/Blog dashboard.(102333) Cleaner and simpler User Dashboard.(102338, 102331, 102429, 102339) Improved menu and button placement on [Edit Entry/Page] screens.(102391)…
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September 29, 2009
Movable Type 4.32 Bug-fix Release + Zemanta plugin
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Many of you are looking forward to using MT5 exclusively, but truthfully you may be content with MT4 or maybe you’re unable to upgrade because a plugin you rely upon may not yet be ported to MT5. So until MT5 is solid and there is little demand for MT4, Six Apart will continue to release new versions of MT4.x as necessary to provide fixes for various security issues and bugs which are major pain points. Small features may be potentially included as well. Download MTOS-4.32-en [zip] [tar.gz] [other languages] MT4.32 fixes a handful of minor bugs which are detailed in the Movable Type 4.32 release notes. One of the commits in MT4.32 was to bundle the Zemanta plugin. Zemanta has committed to supporting the development of Movable Type; what better partnership than that of a content management system and a service to recommend quality related-content? While it may not be useful for every blogger, it can be very helpful in the case where you need an image, links to related articles, help with tags for an entry, etc to have a more compelling blog entry. Check out the Zemanta FAQ for more info on how Zemanta’s services may be useful…
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September 17, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 2
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Movable Type 5.0 Beta 2 is now available… Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software. Beta 3 Beta 3 is now under development and will be primarily focused on various UI improvements. Read on for Known Issues in Beta 2 and Resolved Issues in Beta 2. Read more about MT5. Release Notes Movable Type Beta 2 All Release Notes…
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September 2, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta
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Are you ready for this? We’re really stoked. Today begins a 2-month period of beta releases and official quality assurance testing. Though we still have loose ends to tie up, we wanted to get the code so that people could begin to use it and provide feedback. We plan to release a new beta version every two weeks until the app is stable. Once stable, we’ll be creating release candidates. And we’re hoping to offer a stable build in mid November. For those who are dying to download it now… Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) We also have a Pre-Release Software License Agreement if you’re interested. Quick links: Bug? | Feature? | Beta Forum | Source Code | Release Notes | Known Issues About Movable Type 5.0 For those who aren’t distracted with downloading and installing… here’s a little history: Development of MT4.3 and 4.31 were led by the Services team in the US and was primarily focused on app performance, resolving pain points common on large installations, making some of their most popular plugins part of the core product,…
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July 20, 2009
Documentation Update
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This week we’ll be previewing some of the new features of Movable Type 4.3 (try the Movable Type 4.3 beta). I’ll start the week off with a post on the my progress updating and improving the Movable Type documentation and Matt Jacobs, MT product manager, will be posting about other features of MT 4.3 later in the week. Intro In product documentation, the manual is the product. If a feature isn’t defined, it doesn’t exist as far as the user can tell. If a feature is described badly, the user will perceive the product to be a bad product. Thus, do not skimp on the documentation. Randal L. Schwartz, Perl author Documentation should be an integral part of the development of a new feature. It should start as a Specifications document, then be used for Quality Assurance testing of the feature, and then published publicly as the Official Documentation for the feature. Describing how a feature works provides new insight into how it could be coded better, reveals bugs, or gives inspiration to new features. Documentation is even important to the developers who wrote it as sometimes they have totally forgotten their strategy at the time, or perhaps their experience…
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December 8, 2008
ProCommunity
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Marry the Community Blog and Community Forum template sets (from the Community Pack as of MT 4.23) with the Professional template set and you get three template sets in one plugin: Pro Community Blog - based on the Community Blog…
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September 10, 2008
Sandbox for Movable Type
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Ever thought about radically changing the look of your blog without much design work? Are you a designer who likes to work in semantic HTML and do amazing things with CSS? Maybe you’re moving from WordPress to Movable Type and want to keep your current design. Sandbox for Movable Type may just be what you’re looking for. What began as a hackathon project of between Bryan Tighe and myself a little while ago has yielded some great results: today we’re releasing Sandbox for Movable Type as a plugin that allows the many Sandbox themes to be used on Movable Type blogs as well. (BTW, Hackathons—the ability to spend every Wednesday scratching our own itches—are one of the reasons why I love working at Six Apart. The Vanilla Template Set was another of my recent Hackathon projects.) Sandbox is similar to the CSS Zen Garden in that it showcases the power of CSS—the ability to radically transform the look of a site without changing any of the underlying HTML. Movable Type has always supported this concept. Tools like the Movable Type Design Assistant have made it much simpler to customize the look of your Movable Type blog through CSS alone. And…
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September 9, 2008
Sandbox
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Scott Wallick and Andy Skelton created Sandbox as a theme for WordPress and it has since been used as the base for many blogs over the last few years. At its core, Sandbox is a rich and semantic—yet simple—HTML structure…
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September 4, 2008
Vanilla
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A quiver of template sets focusing on specific features in Movable Type. Vanilla provides various template sets which only contain the code necessary to show how a specific feature in Movable Type. These template sets are not endended to be…
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January 14, 2008
DashOff
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A set of links to the places you most commonly want to go for each of your blogs. Reduces the number of clicks when navigating between blogs. Plugin settings allow sorting of blogs by: Blog Name, Creation Order, or Last…
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September 19, 2007
Ghostwriter
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Ghostwriter is a Movable Type plugin that adds a control to change the author on Edit Entry and Edit Page screens. Perfect when the person entering or editing content is not the user to be specified as the author. Documentation…
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