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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  

Using template tag parameters

From the "I didn't know you could do that" department: So I was working with Beau on the implementation of a performance enhancement to Movable Type's search results and he showed me this really amazing trick that I doubt anyone... Continue Reading  

A tour of Movable Type 4.1's asset editing functionality

Movable Type 4.0 provided users for the first time with the features necessary for Movable Type to serve as a light weight content management system for web sites. It also provided a framework to developers to define their own custom... Continue Reading  

MTOS Subversion Tips

Developers looking to stay plugged into the bleeding edge of Movable Type without having to depend upon nightly builds may like the following tip which shows how one can always access the following builds reliably and predictably without having to... Continue Reading  

Reports from the Upgrade-a-thon

Last week's Movable Type 4.0 events were a huge success. On Tuesday we hosted a day long "Upgrade-a-thon" where we invited people to join us in Movable Type's IRC chat room and on the phone to help a number of... Continue Reading