Entries tagged with “open source” from MovableType.org - Home for the MT Community

Open Sourcing GeoType, PostOffice, CAS, BuildTracer

Hi all, We’ve open sourced a few more plugins, and they’re all available in the Six Apart Github repository! GeoType allows you to associate GoogleMap data with an entry. Each map extends the MT Asset framework, so it’s managed similar... Continue Reading

Meet Melody

When Mena and I started working on Movable Type almost 8 years ago, one of the most delightful surprises in the project was how a passionate and creative community sprung up around the platform almost immediately. They even seemed to... Continue Reading

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

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

FogBugz reorganization

Just a quick note to say that now we have shipped MT 4.2, we are tweaking the way we organize the MT FogBugz instance. Since we launched the open-source project with MT 4.1, we've had two projects that have held... Continue Reading

More Reasons to Upgrade to Movable Type 4.2 and RC2

Yesterday we release Movable Type 4.2 Release Candidate 2. This was an important milestone because this is the first release of MT 4.2 that our internal QA teams have fully certified to work against postgres. Release Candidate 2 also contains... Continue Reading

Mark Your Calendars: Movable Type at the Web2.0Expo

Next week is the Web2.0Expo is San Francisco, an event for just about anyone who is participating in the creation of the next-generation of the Web. Six Apart is a sponsor of the event and you can find us there... Continue Reading

Awesome: apt-get install movabletype-opensource

Movable Type just got a whole lot easier to install for Debian users thanks to newly available Debian packages. But what makes this addition to the Movable Type Open Source Project so great is not the fact that installing Movable... Continue Reading

Help Make MT Even More Bulletproof

Some of the largest properties on the web power their sites using Movable Type. Not just the biggest blogs, but some of the biggest sites, period. You've seen 'em: The Washington Post, The Gothamist, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post and... Continue Reading

Introducing the Movable Type Design Assistant

For years now, Movable Type has had a powerful "Style Catcher" built in, which lets you browse a number of different style libraries all over the Internet, and then apply a style to your blog with just a click. It's... Continue Reading

Podcast with David Recordon about the Open Social Graph

In last week's ProNet conference call, which is quickly evolving into a call-in internet talk show of sorts, I spoke with David Recordon, the man leading the effort behind the Open Social Graph Project, or "Glue." If you are interested... Continue Reading

One more reason to buy an iPhone

For a long time now I have been one of those iPhone hold outs that insists on waiting for the next generation before taking the iPhone plunge. But today could be the tipping point for me and many other Movable... Continue Reading