Creating Your First Entry
With Movable Type installed, it is time to what it perhaps the single
most important thing you and other users will do in Movable Type:
create content.
To create your first blog post, or "entry" select "Entry" from the Create menu. From there you can start entering the content for your first ever Movable Type blog post. If the rich text editor is not selected by default for whatever reason then select "Rich Text" from the pull down menu labeled "Format." The rich text editor will allow you to see your text as it will appear on your blog in a classic WYSIWYG (or What You See Is What You Get) editor.
Set your Publishing Status to "published" and click save. Your blog has been born.
To create your first blog post, or "entry" select "Entry" from the Create menu. From there you can start entering the content for your first ever Movable Type blog post. If the rich text editor is not selected by default for whatever reason then select "Rich Text" from the pull down menu labeled "Format." The rich text editor will allow you to see your text as it will appear on your blog in a classic WYSIWYG (or What You See Is What You Get) editor.
Set your Publishing Status to "published" and click save. Your blog has been born.
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Byrne Reese
Byrne Reese was previously the Product Manager of Movable Type at Six Apart, where he had also held positions as the Manager of Platform Technology and Product Manager for TypePad. Byrne is a huge supporter of the Movable Type user and developer community. He dedicates much of his time to promoting and educating people about Movable Type as well as building the tools and plugins for Movable Type that are showcased on Majordojo. He contributes regularly to open source; and he is an advocate for open protocols and standards like Atom and OpenID.
Bud on July 26, 2007, 6:18 a.m. Reply
If your file permissions on the server are not set so MT can create files and directories, this process won’t work.
Gry on August 2, 2007, 3:50 a.m. Reply
I managed to install, wonderful! But I installed it fresh and I’ve been looking all over for a way to import old entries.