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July 2007

July 30, 2007

Movable Type is fluent in French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese too!

By Byrne Reese.

One of Movable Type’s strength’s has always been its long history of being a truly international product which is why Six Apart has offices not only in San Francisco, but also in Tokyo and Paris as w…

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July 25, 2007

Movable Type 4 Release Candidate: Ready To Go

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

About seven weeks ago we released to the world the first beta of Movable Type 4.0. In that time the Beta has been downloaded tens of thousands of times, bringing new users into the MT4 community at a …

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July 24, 2007

Services restored and gearing up for a release

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

Today at approximately 1:40pm PST this web site along with all of Six Apart’s web sites and services suffered a major interruption of service due to a power outage that affected our entire hosting fac…

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July 17, 2007

Podcasting? Yep, we got that.

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

The number seven just got a whole lot luckier if you ask me. Beta 7 was just released (download it now), and just when I thought no new exciting features would be added to MT4 because honestly, we re…

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July 17, 2007

Tags, Variables, and Templates, Oh My!

By Anil Dash.

As we’ve had an influx of new people looking into Movable Type 4.0 during the beta, either for the first time, or for the first time in years, one thing that keeps coming up is “the template tags look…

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July 11, 2007

Psst — iPhone Nerds…

By Anil Dash.

Got a shiny new iPhone? Got shiny new MT4 Beta? Well, every listing screen in MT4 has built-in feeds for things like managing your entries and comments, all you’ve got to do is look for the feed icon …

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July 10, 2007

Beta 6, replying to your commenters, more spam fighting ammo

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

We are pleased to announce that we just released the sixth beta for Movable Type 4.0. Our focus in this release was almost entirely upon fixing bugs, reproducing issues reported by customers, respondi…

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July 7, 2007

Take A Look Around!

By Anil Dash.

Now that we’ve got the new site mostly up and running, it’s time to point out a few highlights you might want to check out if you’re new to exploring MT4.The good stuff: The free download of MT4 Beta …

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July 5, 2007

Pardon Our Dust

By Byrne Reese.

We are about to begin the process of rolling out a new design for this web site and blog today. During the time some links or pages may appear broken or unstyled. We thank you for your patience. When …

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July 3, 2007

Happy Fourth of July!

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

Obligatory Fireworks Photo As we all must do when we see fireworks, let us let out a collective “oooooooohhh” and “aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh” with the release of Movable Type 4.0 Beta 5. This release is right…

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July 3, 2007

What I Screencast Is What You Get

By Byrne Reese and posted in Screencasts.

In the next installment of our on-going series of screencasts that showcase Movable Type 4.0 we decided to present an overview of what is perhaps the single most important screen in the application: …

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July 2, 2007

First Movable Type 4 Plugin released

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

This weekend, Kevin Shay, the developer behind several of Movable Type’s most popular plugins, release the first Movable Type 4 plugin. Some credit should go to Arvind as well who has been working on …

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