Movable Type 5 Documentation

This is an index of the documentation updated for MT5 or specific to MT5. Go to the main documentation index for more general documentation.

Updated for Movable Type 5 ¶

• Installation Guide
• Upgrading Guide
• Authoring Guide

New in Movable Type 5 ¶

Administrator's Guide : Managing Websites

• Creating and Deleting a Website
• Rebuild Triggers for index templates of the Website
• Moving a Blog to a Different Website
• Editing Website Settings

Designer's Guide

• Designing Website and Blog Themes
• Managing Template Modules at Website Level
• Sharing Template Modules Between a Website and its Blogs
• Installing, Exporting and Creating Themes

Developer's Guide : New API

• Permission API
• The Basic Structure of a Theme
  • Core Theme Elements
  • Theme Framework from plugins
  • Theme Registry Keys
• Everything UTF8

New Configuration Directives

• AssetFileExtensions
• ThemesDirectory
• ThemeStaticFileExtensions

New and Updated Template Tag Modifiers

• include_websites(New)
• exclude_websites(New)
• include_blogs (Updated)

New Template Tags

Websites

• <mt:BlogParentWebsite> - block
• <mt:IfWebsite> - block
• <mt:Websites> - block loop
• <$mt:WebsiteName$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteDescription$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteURL$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteRelativeURL$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteHost$> - function
• <$mt:WebsitePath$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteFileExtension$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteLanguage$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteTimezone$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteID$> - function
• <$mt:WebsitePingCount$> - function
• <$mt:WebsitePageCount$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteCommentCount$> - function
• <mt:WebsiteIfCommentsOpen> - block
• <$mt:WebsiteCCLicenseImage$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteCCLicenseURL$> - function
• <mt:WebsiteIfCCLicense> - block

Custom Fields

• <mt:BlogCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:CommentCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:VideoCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:ImageCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:FileCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:AudioCustomFields> - block loop
• <mt:CustomFieldIsRequired> - block conditional

Themes

• <$mt:SupportDirectoryURL$> - function
• <$mt:WebsiteThemeID$> - function
• <$mt:BlogThemeID$> - function

Other

• <$mt:AuthorEntryCount$> - function
• <$mt:AuthorEntriesCount$> - function
• <$mt:AuthorCommentCount$> - function