Listed below is a comprehensive list of new features that you will find in Movable Type 4.0.
Understanding Your Blogs Better
Understanding Your Blogs Better
- A completely reinvented user interface
- Built in reports on blog activity
- Integrated asset manager for uploading, reusing, and finding files like photos, audio, and video
- Blog-style presentation of your recent content is easy to skim and lets you know how your blogs are doing
- Customize MT's entire user interface using the same MT template language that publishes your blog
- A customizable dashboard to display just the information you find valuable
- Kick-ass documentation -- over 100 printed pages' worth, with an exclusive book-length Business Blogging Guide offering details on exactly how to help your company communicate with blogs
- Powerful listing screens with quick keyboard access keys and the ability to work with multiple selections of entries, comments, or authors
- Quick Filters on every listing screen let you jump to the most-frequently-accessed views of your information
- Smarter defaults throughout the system, offering more power with fewer configuration settings than MT 3.0
- A powerful and simple re-sizable WYSIWYG Editor, with automatic saving of drafts of entries and templates -- never lose a half-written post again
- Built-in cross-blog aggregation: Publish pages that include data from some, all, or just one of your blogs
- The world's smartest blog template language, with boolean logic for choosing which content to display. ("Show me posts by 'Jane' in the category 'food' with tags 'meat NOT fish'.")
- Live preview shows you your entry before you publish, with full fidelity to your live blog
- Smart controls like auto-complete for tags, a calendar selector for scheduling future-dated entries, and a completely redone UI for selecting and creating categories
- Support for publishing standalone pages that automatically use blog templates and designs
- Better plain-text entry with built-in support for Markdown and Textile, and conversion of MS Word "smart" quotes to HTML entities
- Even more search-engine-friendly with customizable URLs per entry, per-template, or per-page
- A simple IDE for templates, with color highlighting for editing tags and smart error reporting for template typos
- Paginated archives -- easily walk your users through posts by date or author or category
- OpenID support built in
- Built-in user registration
- Powerful profile pages for every user in your system
- Customizable roles and even more granular user permissions let you control exactly what users can access
- A ratings framework that lets users rate any item in the system -- entries, comments, and in the future even authors or entire blogs
- Easily reply to comments from right within the administration UI
- Built in per-author archives let your readers connect with the people who publish the site
- Automatically provision a new blog for each user who registers with the system
- Built-in support for integrated spam fighting and optionally displaying a CAPTCHA for comments
- Integrated email notifications -- let your readers know when a thread they're interested in has updated
- A dramatically improved installation experience
- Cross-blog management of entries, authors, comments, and community
- Customizable, filterable RSS feeds for every management and listing screen in the application
- Built-in diagnostic tools for system configuration information and troubleshooting
- Blog cloning -- with one click, you can create a new blog that inherits the styles, settings, templates, and configuration of any blog in your system
- Full Backup and Restore -- securely archives all your entries, comments, images, files, settings, and templates for safekeeping
- Better import and export, with support for importing content all previous versions of Movable Type as well as other popular blogging platforms
- Create plugins without programming -- plain-text configuration files make it easier than ever to customize MT to your needs
- The world's largest single audience of shared templates and themes -- the ability to reuse themes and templates from LiveJournal, Vox, and TypePad lets MT developers create themes that work on over 15 million blogs, with support for the same styles in Habari and Drupal
- A fully open-source GPL version of Movable Type
- Powerful solution packs -- all the features you want, with no unnecessary complexity
- A reborn MovableType.org, acting as a hub for the MT community
- A completely reinvented Movable Type Plugin directory, due to be released alongside MT4 -- MT invented blogging plugins and had the first plugin directory, now you can rate, rank, sort, search, and discover plugins, and learn more about their creators
- Support for the open source infrastructure shared with other Six Apart platforms, including Memcached support right out of the box
- A public subversion repository for Movable Type, featuring nightly builds of fixes and improvements to the platform
- An all-new community wiki for capturing conversations and documentation for future reference by the community
- A single shared code base for all versions of Movable Type, meaning personal users can benefit immediately from platform improvements created for Enterprise users, or for other Six Apart platforms
