Welcome to the Movable Type Developer Guide. This document provides an overview of the resources available to developers and designers building on top of the Movable Type platform.

This documentation applies to Movable Type 4.0 or greater only.

Creating Plugins for Movable Type ¶

Overview ¶

• The Structure of a Plugin
• Creating Your First Plugin
• Static vs. Dynamic Registry Items
• Developer and Debug Mode
• How the Registry Works
• About Components and the Registry
• Plugins vs. Components
• Internationalization
• Movable Type Registry Reference

Objects and Object Manipulation ¶

• Defining Custom Objects
• Extending Existing Objects
• Using the MT::Taggable Interface
• Using the Scoring Framework

Adding Elements to the Registry ¶

• Template Tags
• Text Filters
• Custom Permissions
• Custom Configuration Directives
• Ping Servers
• Scheduled Tasks
• Custom Import Handlers
• OpenID Endpoints
• Dashboard Widgets
• StyleCatcher Repositories

Using the Movable Type Perl API ¶

• Complete Perl API Reference Manual
• Creating Custom Asset Types
• Transformation Callbacks
• Object Level Callbacks

Movable Type Web Service APIs ¶

• XML-RPC, Atom and more

Creating Custom Movable Type Applications ¶

• Overview
  • How to add a new screen to the application
  • How to Create a Modal Dialog
  • Creating Menu Items
  • Creating List Filters of "Quick Filters"

User Interface ¶

• Using Alternate Templates
• Dashboard Widgets
• Transformation Callbacks