August 2007 Archives
A quick note to wish everyone in the Movable Type community a Happy Labor Day Weekend, and to inform everyone that we released Movable Type 4.01 beta 2. This has been an excellent beta period thanks to everyone who has... Continue Reading
More Docs Than A Hospital
There's a whole pile of new and updated documentation for MT4 that we've been working on updating, based specifically on the requests we've gotten from the community and from developers. Some highlights:An all-new introduction to the MT4 Developer's Guide. All... Continue Reading
Its not just a blogging tool anymore
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 actuality It is... Continue Reading
Listen in on our Bi-weekly Community Conference Call...
Every other Wednesday Six Apart hosts a public conference call with members from the Movable Type developer and professional community. These calls are a great forum for those individuals to talk with members from the Six Apart product team directly... Continue Reading
Movable Type 4.01 Beta
A little more than a week ago we released Movable Type 4.0 and the response it has received has been extraordinary. More and more people are upgrading to and making the switch to MT4 every day, and with every new... Continue Reading
Holy Moly! Graphical visitor stats for your blog.
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 Hacks has been busy building a... Continue Reading
Love Me
The Movable Type community is positively buzzing with excitement. Plugins are being added to the new plugin directory every day and developers are busy at updating their plugins to take advantage of MT4's new APIs and architecture. Plus we are... Continue Reading
Why we made Movable Type 4.0
When our co-founders Ben & Mena Trott first launched Movable Type almost six years ago, their words were pretty modest: "We've never claimed to be the best. We've never presented Movable Type as the program that will revolutionize weblogging. We're... Continue Reading
Introducing the New Movable Type Plugin Directory
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 community.The Directory is powered completely by Movable... Continue Reading
Reports from the Upgrade-a-thon
Last week's Movable Type 4.0 events were a huge success. On Tuesday we hosted a day long "Upgrade-a-thon" where we invited people to join us in Movable Type's IRC chat room and on the phone to help a number of... Continue Reading
Today's Events
As we've mentioned, we're hosting two event today to help the Movable Type community get ready for the release of MT4. Both events are free and open to anyone who wants to participate online -- here's the information you'll need... Continue Reading
The Road to Movable Type 4
While the Movable Type Beta started about 8 weeks ago, the road to Movable Type 4.0 began well over a year ago when we released a preview of what we had planned on being Movable Type 3.5, codenamed Wheeljack. That... Continue Reading
Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 3
Earlier this evening we released Movable Type 4.0 RC3, and we have updated our change log and list of known issues according. This change log is shorter then usual as we begin to converge on a release. This week, while... Continue Reading
Podcast Feed Template for Movable Type 4.0
Movable Type 4.0 will be the first release of Movable Type that has podcasting support built into the core application, with no need for a plugin or additional software of services. In creating the plugin known as Feed Manager, I... Continue Reading
Ready for the Real World?
In these final stages of the MT4 beta, each day we ask ourselves, "will this build be the final build for the release?" To answer that question there is no better place to turn to then the real world. Yesterday... Continue Reading
Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 2
Last night we silently released our second release candidate and took another significant step towards a full fledged release of Movable Type 4.0. This release contains its usual impressive number of fixes, but if you look at the change log,... Continue Reading