20
06
2007
MovableType Open Source Blog Software
Posted by: admin in Blogging, CMS, Open Source, Web Development Tags=MovableType is now an open source blogging software similar in many functions to Wordpress. It is very well put together and well polished. I think many of you will enjoy MovableType’s user interface. MovableType Open Source is currently on version 4.0 and has some new features. Here is what their site lists…
Understanding Your Blogs Better
- A completely reinvented user interface
- Built in reports on blog activity
- Blog-style presentation of your recent content makes it easy to skim and know at a glance how your blogs are doing
- Customize your reports and user interface using the same MT template language that publishes your blog
- A customizable dashboard to display just the information each user finds valuable
- Smarter defaults throughout the system, offering more power with fewer configuration settings than MT 3.0
- Powerful listing screens with quick keyboard access keys and the ability to work with multiple selections of entries, comments, or authors
- Quick Filters on every listing screen let you jump to the most-frequently-accessed views of your information
- Built-in file manager for uploading and reusing assets like images or media files lets you keep track of all the content in your blog, not just entries
Better Publishing
- A powerful and simple re-sizable WYSIWYG Editor, with automatic saving of drafts of entries and templates — never lose a half-written post again
- Built-in cross-blog aggregation: Publish pages that include data from some, all, or just one of your blogs
- The world’s smartest template language, with boolean logic for choosing which content to display. (”Show me posts by ‘Jane’ in the category ‘music’ with tags ‘bass NOT fish’.”)
- Live preview shows you your entry before you publish, with full fidelity to your live blog
- Smart controls like auto-complete for tags, a calendar selector for scheduling future-dated entries, and a completely redone UI for selecting and creating categories
- Support for publishing standalone pages that automatically use blog templates and designs
- Better plain-text entry with built-in support for Markdown and Textile, and conversion of MS Word “smart” quotes to HTML entities
- Even more SEO-friendly with customizable URLs per entry, per-template, or per-page
- A simple integrated IDE for templates, with smart error reporting for template typos
- Paginated archives — easily walk your users through posts by date or author or category
These are some pretty nice features if you ask me. I will keep you posted on my experience with Movable Type as I attempt to set it up on my server and begin using it for testing purposes. Go to www.movabletype.org to check out the site and download the software.
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