Recently by Byrne Reese

Hacking the UI to make Movable Type better

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 virtually anyone to: easily skin any screen in... Continue Reading  

What do you want to build using Movable Type?

Movable Type has a well earned reputation as an incredibly scalable, flexible and powerful publishing platform and is used by large enterprises, publishers and bloggers alike. Movable Type however was not designed exclusively for large publishers - Movable Type is... Continue Reading  

Taking full advantage of template module caching

Movable Type offers a number of features to help administrators increase the performance of their system. Chief among them is template module caching. As the name may imply, any template module in Movable Type can have caching enabled, which causes... Continue Reading  

Taking full advantage of template module caching

Movable Type offers a number of features to help administrators increase the performance of their system. Chief among them is template module caching. As the name may imply, any template module in Movable Type can have caching enabled, which causes... Continue Reading  

Making it easier to debug and test your templates

Sometimes there can be nothing more frustrating than trying to troubleshoot publishing performance. Often users must resort to the brute force method of debugging, such as: embedding print STDERR statements in Movable Type's source code - but how many people... Continue Reading  

Obtaining total transparency into your publishing system

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 is up to the task of... Continue Reading  

Google Sitemap and Template Caching Tips

On a recent call with the Movable Type Community we discussed and shared tips on how to best take advantage of Movable Type's built in caching system. One of the tips I shared is something I have been doing on... Continue Reading  

Migrating from Right Fields to Custom Fields - the beta begins

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 great need... Continue Reading  

Important Update: Movable Type 4.21 now available

In recent days two significant issues in the Movable Type 4.2 release were reported by our community. One of these bugs can potentially result in some form of limited data loss, and the other could cause loss of some configuration... Continue Reading  

Creating Drop-Down Navigation with Movable Type

A common question from Movable Type users and designers is, "how do I create nice navigation for my web site?" The Professional Website template set and even Mid-Century have navigation build in. But there are Movable Type themes out there... Continue Reading