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September 24, 2014

Find plugins and themes more easily than ever

Posted in News.

We are happy to announce we have completed beta testing of the new plugin and theme directory, and it is now available at plugins.movabletype.org.

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July 25, 2010

Action Streams Plugin for Movable Type 5 and 4

By Jun Kaneko and posted in Plugins.

Did you notice that Action Streams and Community Action Streams plugins have been updated ? Now they work both with Movable Type 5 and Movable Type 4. Action Streams plugin collects your actions on t…

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December 4, 2008

Facebook Connect for Movable Type

By Chris Ernest Hall and posted in News.

Today we are pleased to announce the beta release of the Facebook Connect Commenters plugin for Movable Type Pro 4.23 and MTOS 4.23, following yesterday’s announcement of the Facebook Connect plugin d…

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November 10, 2008

Hacking the UI to make Movable Type better

By Byrne Reese and posted in Hacks.

One of the great things about Movable Type is the multitude of ways it provides for folks to modify the core user interface without disturbing existing functionality. In fact Movable Type allows virtu…

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October 24, 2008

Obtaining total transparency into your publishing system

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

Movable Type has proven time and time again that it can help some of the Internet’s most influential and most innovative blogs become some of the largest as well. Not every content management system i…

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October 3, 2008

Migrating from Right Fields to Custom Fields - the beta begins

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

Today we are happy to announce a public beta of a new plugin for Movable Type that helps users using Right Fields on Movable Type 3.x upgrade to Movable Type 4.2 using Custom Fields. There has been a …

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September 10, 2008

Sandbox for Movable Type

By Beau Smith and posted in Design.

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 …

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August 22, 2008

Connecting mixi Users with Movable Type Communities

By chrishea and posted in Plugins.

As we started to show with Movable Type Pro last week, blogging is evolving to encompass the world of social networking and connect to the rest of the web; merging publishing with community. Since the…

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July 23, 2008

Movable Type 4.2 RC4 and some of our latest hacks

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

We have had some amazing feedback from the community since we started the public beta of Movable Type 4.2 - a release we consider to be one of the most important upgrades to Movable Type ever. Users o…

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July 3, 2008

Feeding Comments from your Friends to Movable Type

By chrishea and posted in Plugins.

As FriendFeed has increased in popularity throughout the blogosphere, many tech bloggers have started to express concern over how conversations are becoming fragmented. Taking a step back, FriendFeed…

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June 12, 2008

More Reasons to Upgrade to Movable Type 4.2 and RC2

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

Yesterday we release Movable Type 4.2 Release Candidate 2. This was an important milestone because this is the first release of MT 4.2 that our internal QA teams have fully certified to work against p…

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May 14, 2008

Mapping Movable Type’s Motion

By dave and posted in Plugins.

One of the coolest areas of innovation on the web over the past several years has been in the realm of mapping and geolocation. So we’re excited to introduce two new plugins for Movable Type, released…

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January 30, 2008

Building Action Streams

By Clifton and posted in Plugins.

As my LiveJournal friends know, I’m reading Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam’s 2001 book about the decline in civic engagement in the US since the generation that fought World War II. Without …

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December 27, 2007

Integrating Movable Type with FogBugz

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

We were honored when FogCreek granted us a license to use FogBugz for public case tracking and project management for the Movable Type Open Source project, which is the largest deployment of FogBugz f…

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October 11, 2007

Podcast with David Recordon about the Open Social Graph

By Byrne Reese and posted in Just for Fun.

In last week’s ProNet conference call, which is quickly evolving into a call-in internet talk show of sorts, I spoke with David Recordon, the man leading the effort behind the Open Social Graph Projec…

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September 10, 2007

One more reason to buy an iPhone

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

For a long time now I have been one of those iPhone hold outs that insists on waiting for the next generation before taking the iPhone plunge. But today could be the tipping point for me and many othe…

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September 7, 2007

Podcast with Dan Wolfgang

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

In this week’s bi-week community conference call we decided to shake things up a bit and change the format of the call. So, in addition to briefing the community of Movable Type news, the product road…

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August 27, 2007

Its not just a blogging tool anymore

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

More and more people are making the switch to Movable Type or choosing Movable Type for their next big web project because people are beginning to see that MT4 is not just a blogging tool anymore. In …

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August 16, 2007

Holy Moly! Graphical visitor stats for your blog.

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

Check out the latest plugin from the community: real time visitor statistics for your Movable Type 4.0 dashboard. Mark Carey, the developer of the plugin and the guy behind the very popular site MT Ha…

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August 14, 2007

Introducing the New Movable Type Plugin Directory

By Byrne Reese and posted in Plugins.

Today we are excited to announce the official release of a brand new and completely redesigned Movable Type Plugin Directory. This new directory is a resource designed and developed by and for the com…

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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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