December 10, 2009
Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Jan 5th, 2010
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 releas…
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December 5, 2009
Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Dec 16th
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 …
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December 3, 2009
MT5 Q & A Conference Call
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 conferenc…
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December 2, 2009
Rewritten Install & Upgrade Documentation for Movable Type
By Beau Smith.
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 se…
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November 28, 2009
Movable Type 5 Status
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 …
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November 18, 2009
Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 bl…
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November 6, 2009
Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 1
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 …
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November 3, 2009
Movable Type 5 Documentation
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 li…
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October 21, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 4
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 befor…
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October 6, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 3
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 …
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September 29, 2009
Movable Type 4.32 Bug-fix Release + Zemanta plugin
By Beau Smith and posted in News.
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…
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September 17, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta 2
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 Ja…
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September 2, 2009
Movable Type 5 Beta
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
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 th…
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July 29, 2009
MT 4.3: Faster Performance, Powerful Search, More Page Views
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
Today marks the official release of Movable Type 4.3. While we’ve been previewing the features over the last week, below is a hit list of the biggest features. If you’re looking to download MT Pro, cl…
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July 28, 2009
Features of 4.3: Smarter Blog Cloning
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
Up until the general release of MT 4.3, we are publishing details on the features of 4.3. Today we’ll focus on blog cloning. For quite some time, blog cloning has been built into Movable Type. It was …
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July 24, 2009
Features of 4.3: Entry Pagination
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
Up until the general release of MT 4.3 (beta info here), we are publishing details on the features of 4.3. Today we’re looking at entry pagination. 1,000 Entries One of the categories on my blog is no…
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July 22, 2009
Features of 4.3: Entry Asset Manager
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
On Monday, Beau posted about our effort to update the docs for MT 4.3. Today I’m coming to you with information on one of our new features — the entry asset manager. An Easier Way Up until now, …
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July 20, 2009
Documentation Update
By Beau Smith and posted in News.
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 th…
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July 9, 2009
The Beta for Movable Type 4.3 is Now Open
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
Earlier this evening we made available the first pre-release version of Movable Type 4.3. For more information about this release, we’ve created an MT 4.3 beta page. There, you can find release notes…
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July 7, 2009
Looking ahead to MT5
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
We are happy to announce that MT5 is coming and invite you to participate. But first, here’s some information on what’s in store for Movable Type 4. Later this month, on July 29th, we’ll be releasing…
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June 23, 2009
Meet Melody
By Benjamin Trott and posted in News.
When Mena and I started working on Movable Type almost 8 years ago, one of the most delightful surprises in the project was how a passionate and creative community sprung up around the platform almost…
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June 17, 2009
MT 4.261: A Small Patch Release
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
We just made MT 4.261 available in your Movable Type account and to the community on movabletype.org. The changes were minor and are detailed in the release notes. Primarily, we updated the schema ver…
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June 10, 2009
MT 4.26 Now Available
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News.
We just announced the availability of MT 4.26 on the MovableType.com blog. This optional performance release includes bug fixes and feature improvements. No new features have been added. MT 4.26 pro…
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May 22, 2009
Quick Fixes for Common Itches
By Anil Dash and posted in Tips & Tricks.
Every once in a while, if you use Movable Type long enough, you can run into little glitches or things that are confusing. We thought we’d round up a couple of random ones that have seemed commo…
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April 18, 2009
Open source releases from Six Apart Services
By Steve Cook.
Six Apart Services has a bag of tricks that would make Felix proud. Over the last few weeks, we’ve released several pieces of code as open source that we think other developers might want to add to th…
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