Movable Type Monday: MT 5, Media Manager, SEO
Happy Monday, folks! Big news this week: Six Apart announced the beta for Movable Type 5. The plan is to have a two month beta period, with the release coming sometime in November. Let’s take a look at...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: New MT5 Beta, Single Sign-On, Easy Install Video, and...
Happy Monday, folks! Movable Type Monday took a break for a couple of weeks, but now we’re back with the latest from the MT community. First off, there’s a new MT5 beta. Lots of improvements and bug...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT 5 beta 3 and mod_perlite
Happy Monday, folks! The Movable Type 5 beta period continues. This week, beta 3 was released. Lots of changes in this version, with what seems to be an emphasis on UI improvements. One thing that’s...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT 5 Beta 4, SmartTrim, TweetMeme, and More
Happy Monday, folks! This week, Six Apart released what should be the final beta of Movable Type 5. Beta 4 is, for the most part, a bug-fix release. The one big new thing is the “Professional Website...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Comment Flag, Breadcrumbs, Catalyst, and More
Happy Monday, folks! It’s November, which means the release of Movable Type 5 is just around the corner. We should be seeing a release candidate build soon. Until then, let’s take a look at some...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT5 Release Candidate, Event Calendars, Melody Update,...
Happy Monday, folks! Well, after several rounds of beta testing, the first release candidate of Movable Type 5 is here. Lots of changes since the last beta, including: New Pico theme. Fixes for FastCGI...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT5 RC2, Melody, StumbleUpon, and More
Happy Monday, folks! This week, Six Apart put out the second release candidate for Movable Type 5. They mention a few highlights in the announcement, so let’s look at those here: A lot of work to get...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT5, Resetting Passwords, and Asset Gallery
Happy Monday, folks! Good news if you’re in Japan: You’ve already got the official release of Movable Type 5. The rest of us have to wait till December 8. Apparently there was briefly a Release...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Updates on MT5
Happy Monday, folks! This week, Six Apart posted a couple of blog entries updating us on the status of Movable Type 5. First thing to note is that the North American and European release will not be...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT5 Delayed, Media Manager, Page Listing Hack, and More
Happy Monday, folks! Disappointing news for those of us waiting for the official Movable Type 5 release: It’s been postponed till January 5. In the announcement, Six Apart only says that there are...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: jQuery Comments, Asset Listings, Safari Support, and More
Happy Monday, folks! Things seem to be a bit slow in the Movable Type community right now. I think it’s a combination of the holidays and impending release of MT5. Still, we’ve got a few news items to...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Smileys, GPS, Title Length, and More
Happy Monday, folks! This week we’ve got a handful of new plugins for you. I have not had a chance to try these personally, so if anybody has, please let us know what you think in the comments....
View ArticleMovable Type Tuesday: Posting to MT from Emacs
Happy Tuesday, folks! Sorry for the late posting, but there were administrative issues we had to iron out in moving Movable Type Monday to BloggingPro. Next week we’ll be back on our regular Monday...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT5, Twitter API, Training, and More
Happy Monday, folks! As expected, Movable Type 5 was released last week. A lot has changed in this new release, as described in the official announcement: A new user dashboard for both the website and...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT-Notifier, Unit Testing, Pubsubhubbub
Happy Monday, folks! Just a few things to tell you about this week. First, Chad Everett has released version 4.3.0 of MT-Notifier. Two big changes with this version: First, Chad’s upgraded the...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Notes on MT 4.33, Publish Queue Plugin, PicApp
Happy Monday, folks! While I’m sure many of you are busy trying all the new features in Movable Type 5, a lot of users are sticking with MT 4.x for now. And with good reasons: With the addition of...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT-Notifier, ShortCodes, and Movable Tips
Happy Monday, folks! A couple of weeks ago, Chad Everett released a new version of MT-Notifier, the advanced notifications plugin for Movable Type and Melody. Since then, he’s released a minor update...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT-Notifier 5, Melody, Sorting Entries, and More
Happy Monday, folks! From time to time we talk about Melody, a fork of Movable Type that was started by several top developers in the Movable Type community. Serdar Yegulalp has written a solid...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Archives, Comment Spam, CKEditor, and More
Happy Monday, folks! Over the last few weeks, I’ve introduced you to two great new Movable Type blogs: Maarten Schenk’s Movable Tips and Nick’s MT-J. This week we’ve got a bunch of new info from both...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: MT 4.34, Plugins, Themes, Tips, and More
Happy Monday, folks! We’ve got a lot to cover this week. First off, Six Apart released Movable Type 4.34 on Wednesday. Here’s a few of the highlights from the release notes: Corrected a problem with...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Twitter, Google Buzz, Unpublishing, and More
Happy Monday, folks! I want to start by mentioning a couple of items I missed last week. First, Rob Kenny announced a new version of his HashTag plugin. HashTag posts an update to Twitter when you...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Themes, Authentication, Translation, and More
Happy Monday, folks! Let’s start this week off with a new Movable Type theme. Mike at Code Monkey Ramblings has created a new theme called iBlog2. Based on a WordPress theme, it can be used with both...
View ArticleMovable Type Monday: Google Maps, Custom Fields Search, Print Version, and More
Happy Monday, folks! This week, Six Apart released a handful of plugins under open source licenses. Here’s the list of plugins released, from the announcement: GeoType allows you to associate GoogleMap...
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