The primary use of Movable Type is to publish entries to your blog. To create and publish a new entry

Movable Type 5 ¶

1. Select [Blog] under the Navigation
2. Select [Entries] > [New] in the Side Menu

Movable Type 4 ¶

• Navigate to the blog in which you wish to create a new entry by using the blog selection menu.

• Click the "Write Entry" button in the main menu, or choose Create > Entry in the main menu. This will display the Create Entry screen.

Entry Fields ¶

The following entry fields are available in Movable Type.

• Entry Title. Use this field to title your entry. It is displayed on your blog using the MTEntryTitle tag.

• Body. Use this area of the Create Entry screen to compose the body of your entry. Movable Type supports a variety of different text editing and formatting options. The body is displayed on your blog using the MTEntryBody tag.

• Extended. Use this area of the Create Entry screen to compose any extended text of your entry. This field is typically used to display more information in an entry on an individual entry archive while the main page of your blog has the "body" of the post. The extended entry is displayed on your blog using the MTEntryExtended tag.

Metadata section ¶

• Tags. Use this field to enter tags for your entry. Learn more about tagging entries and pages and managing a blog's tags. Tags are displayed on your blog using the container tag MTEntryTags.

• Excerpt. Use this field to enter an excerpt for your entry. Entry excerpts are not in any of Movable Type's default templates, but can be displayed on your blog using the tag MTEntryExcerpt.

• Keywords. Use this field to assign keywords to your entry. Keywords are used in Movable Type's default templates to add meta keywords to the entry page header, and can be displayed on your blog using the tag MTEntryKeywords

Status ¶

The status of the edited content. If you activate the revision history ( on Movable Type 5 ), you can restore previous items saved in the history.

Publishing section ¶

• "Save Draft" Button - Save as "Unpublished (Draft)".
• "Publish" Button - Publish a blog entry or webpage to the site.
• "Update" Button - Make changes to published content.
• "Unpublish" Button - Unpublish a blog entry or webpage and revert to draft status.

• "Delete" Button - Delete a blog entry or webpage.

• Publish Date. Use this field to set the publish date for your entry. If you set the publish date for the future, Movable Type will publish the entry on that date, as long as your system administrator has configured a cron job for running periodic tasks. Learn more about running periodic tasks.

• Basename. Movable Type will automatically populate this field with a file basename for your entry. For example, if your entry title is "This is a new post" the entry basename will be "this-is-a-new-post" and if your default file extension for entries is set to "html" the full file name of the entry will be "this-is-a-new-post.html".

• Change Note If the revision history (Movable Type 5 only) is activated, save a memo regarding saved revisions.

Category ¶

Use this area of the Create Entry screen to assign categories to your entry. To assign a category to an entry, click the "Add Category" link. Learn more about adding categories to entries and managing a blog's categories.

Feedback section ¶

• Accept Comments / TrackBacks. Use this section to set whether comments or TrackBacks will be accepted on the entry. The default for new entries can be set by your blog administrator (or by you if you have blog administration rights). Learn more about new Entry settings in Movable Type.

• Outbound TrackBack URLs. Use this field to enter URLs for sending TrackBack pings when your post is published. Movable Type can be configured to automatically discover TrackBack endpoints to ping when you save and publish your post. Learn more about configuring TrackBack settings in Movable Type.

Auto-saving ¶

The system will automatically save your entry to the database every 30 seconds, after your cursor has left the Entry Title field. The system saves your entries to a separate table from the main entry table, and makes recovered entries only available to the user who was editing the entry when it was auto-saved. If the system has an entry available for you to recover, it will present a message at the top of the Entry editing screen.

Display Options ¶

Use the display options tool on the right hand side of the screen to select which editor fields you wish to display on the Create Page screen.