Features

• Pro Pack: Personalize your site with custom fields

  Personalize your site with custom fields. Now you've got complete control over the fields that you use to publish your site. Extend your entries and pages with drop-down lists, radio buttons, or just plain text fields.

• Pro Pack: Out-of-the-box website templates

  Just click to start a new site and you're automatically provided with a professionally designed website and a full-featured blog.

• Support for unlimited blogs

  Create a blog for each project, client, or workgroup, or for every person in your organization. And manage them all in one place.

• Flexible static and dynamic PHP publishing

  Choose between static or dynamic pages to optimize your blog between fast content creation and high traffic.

• New! Create standalone pages for powerful content management

  Create non-blog pages that inherit the look and feel of your blog's design without having to be published as posts. Your site's pages can even have comments just like your blog, giving you all the power of a content mangement system without the complexity

• New! Built-In Asset and File Management

  MT4 introduces a smart new asset and file manager -- every item you upload to your blog is tracked by the system, making it easy to retrieve and reuse your content. Photos, videos, audio, even Word documents and PDFs can be managed in the system, and can be automatically integrated into podcasts.

• Improved! Simple installation

  MT4's new installation wizard makes setting up MT a snap. If you need a helping hand, Six Apart provides expert installation service for a small additional fee as well as a range of hosting options through our partners.

• New! Easy-to-use, extensible interface

  Point-and-click controls make content creation and author administration a breeze, and can be extended through custom links and additional options.

• Improved! Customizable templates

  Movable Type's unique and powerful template tags, combined with standard XML, HTML and CSS allow unparalleled customization of your site. And it's easy to make custom output formats as well.

• New! Customizable Roles

  As part of MT4, predefined roles can be created with custom permissions. Administrators can grant and revoke sets of permissions without having to manually define each combination of users, blogs, and permissions. And all the predefined roles are customizable, so you've got the freedom to create your own roles, custom-tailored to your community.

• Improved! Powerful Templating Language

  Movable Type's industry-leading template language is more powerful than ever, letting you choose exactly which content you want to display on your pages, as well as how it's presented. Customize your entire site without having to do any programming. And MT4's smart enough to catch your template errors and point them out to you right while you're editing.

• Improved! Activity Feeds

  Movable Type is the only blogging platform that delivers its features to you as part of a secure, customized XML feed. Instead of having to learn every screen in the application, every listing screen is available as a feed that lets you perform common tasks right from your feed reader. Use these feeds to manage comments and feedback, approve draft entries for publishing, keep track of site registrations -- anything you can imagine.

• Improved! Powerful Customizable Search

  Movable Type offers built in search, with completely customizable search result pages. Anyone can subscribe to search results as a feed, making it easy to keep tabs on just the information that interests you Plus, Movable Type's support for open databases and standard HTML means any standard enterprise search system can automatically index the content of your blogs.

• Improved! Spam Protection

  Movable Type is the only blogging platform with a smart Junk Folder for unwanted comments. Plus, through the use of plugins, you can make the Junk folder even smarter if spammers ever manage to get through. Administrators can also adjust the system to be more or less aggressive as needed.

• XML Content syndication (RSS)

  Movable Type supports all common data syndication formats, from XML and RSS to Atom to any other custom formats created through Movable Type's template tags. It's all built-in without any setup required.

• Improved! Flexible archiving

  Archive content by individual post, post category, or by date. Monthly and weekly archives are built in, and new in MT4 is support for archives by author. MT4's built-in archiving is smarter, too, automatically splitting up your category archives by month, and even letting you create as many different types of archives per post as you want.

• Unlimited Categories & Sub-categories to organize entries.

  Each blog can have it's own set of categories and nested subcategories. Each entry can have multiple category assignments and Movable Type can be configured to publish one or more archives for each category/subcategory.

• Improved! Extensive Style Library

  Customize the look of your site with just a few clicks, without editing any HTML. Choose from dozens of unique designs and layouts, with support for any common multi-column design.

• Tags

  Entry tags are built right in to MT4, so readers can easily find any content. And MT automatically publishes custom feeds for each tag, so readers can subscribe to topics they're interested in.

• Improved! Widgets

  Arrange and manage your page just by dragging and dropping. Widgets can include your own content or content from other web services and feeds, and easily let you display things like recently-uploaded photos or recent comments.

• Improved! Email Notification

  Easily notify your readers of new content on your site using built-in email notifications, complete with address book management built right in to Movable Type. You can even customize your email notifications to include exactly the information and design you want.

• Improved! Programming interfaces

  Movable Type supports the Atom API (application programming interface) and helped pioneer the Metaweblog API. From Microsoft Word 2007 to dozens of third-party clients and devices, it's easier than ever to write your MT entries using tools that you're already familiar with.

• Internationalization

  Read, write, and connect in any language in the world. Movable Type ships with full support for Unicode and international character sets. And fully-supported professional translations of the software are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.

• Improved! Pluggable architecture

  Even non-technical users can extend Movable Type's through the enormous collection of plugins. Movable Type pioneered the idea of plugins for web applications, and MT4 provides more power than ever to plugin developers.

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Dashboard

Create Entry

Asset Management

Multiple Blogs

Code Editing

Requirements

Operating System

Movable Type has been is routinely tested on and is supported on the following operating systems:

• Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2
• Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 2
• Solaris, SunOS
• Linux flavors:
  • RedHat Enterprise
  • CentOS
  • Fedora
  • BSD
• Mac OS X

Note: Perl, PHP and web servers such as Apache HTTP Server are available for Unix-style operating systems such as Linux, BSDs and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. They are also freely available and offered by most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) today.

Perl

Movable Type supports Perl version 5.8.1 or above. Movable Type will run on any platform that supports Perl version 5.6.1 or later, but only Perl version 5.8.1 or above are officially supported by Six Apart.

PHP

Movable Type supports both static and dynamic publishing. Dynamic publishing however requires the use of PHP. Movable Type 4.0 supports both PHP4 and PHP5.

Web Server

Movable Type requires a web server capable of hosting and executing CGI scripts. There are no modern web servers incapable of doing this. If you wish to utilize Movable Type's optional dynamic publishing feature then your web server will also need to be able host and execute PHP as well. While a number of web servers are capable of meeting these requirements, here is a list of all web servers officially supported by Six Apart:

• Apache 1.3x
• Apache 2.x
• Windows IIS 5.x
• Windows IIS 6.x

Note: Movable Type does not currently support execution under mod_perl with Apache 2.x.

Database Requirements

Movable Type 4.0 and greater has built in support for the following database servers:

• MySQL 4.0 or greater
  
• PostgreSQL 7.x, PostgreSQL 8.x
• SQLite

Movable Type 4.0 may be compatible with other versions of these databases, but only the versions listed above are officially supported by Six Apart.

Note: MySQL 4.0 is supported, but version 4.1 or greater is recommended as 4.0 is no longer supported by MySQL.

Movable Type Enterprise Solution provides additionally supported databases.