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With Movable Type, you get stability, flexibility and security along with a robust content management framework. Below are some of the parts that work together to make managing your website a great experience for everyone involved.
Description
Display website and blog access information in the Site Stats widget.
Get a quick overview of the blogs and websites to which you have access with quick links to create new entries and other daily administration tasks.
Counts of and links to your own entries, pages, comments and drafts to keep tabs on your progress.
Keep abreast of Movable Type developments with this automatic news feed from the software developers.
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Organize your data however you see fit by creating as many blogs as you’d like, each with its own publishing options. And we mean as many blogs as you’d like. They’re unlimited!
Unlike other systems, multisite support is included! You can use Movable Type to create just one website or thousands!
Each website and blog supports both entries and pages so you can manage your content in a way that makes sense to you.
Static publishing means your URLs are inherently search engine friendly. No URL fancy rewriting necessary!
Entries can be assigned to any number of categories, and pages placed under any number of nested folders, allowing your content organization to reflect your business.
Specify how many previous versions of entries and pages to save on a per blog basis so you can revert changes and have an audit trail where it is important, and save resources where it is not. Each version can have a comment to describe the changes.
Entries and pages can be set to automatically go live at a specified date and time, enabling you to streamline your publishing process.
Entries and pages can be set to automatically be unpublished at a specified date and time, enabling easy management of sponsored content, contests and more.
The default themes contain a readymade ATOM feed template so your content will automatically be available to feed readers and other services. Movable Type’s infinitely flexible templating allows you to customize the feeds any way you’d like by adding custom fields and other data, or even by changing the format entirely.
Use Movable Type’s built in search engine to allow users to search for content on your site. All searches are logged to the activity log for later review.
Easily link to previous and next entries within or across categories.
Split long entries into multiple pages by easily inserting page breaks using the Pagination plugin.
Notify ping services of website updates automatically, configurable per blog.
Entries and pages have configurable basenames to allow customization of the resulting URL.
Description
Out of the box support for English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French and Japanese.
Entries, pages and templates are saved automatically to prevent loss of work after unfortunate events like a system crash, power outage or accidental browser closing.
Ability to preview content in popup windows.
Post entries and pages using convenient bookmarklets.
Save time by modifying status, title, primary category and date information for multiple entries or pages simultaneously.
Using the PostOffice plugin, save or publish text and images to your blogs by sending an e-mail, allowing for easy on the go publishing or accepting contributions from specified or anonymous users.
Control whether entries and pages are published or set to draft status by default on a per blog basis.
Control the default format of entry and page bodies on a per blog basis. Options include rich text, Markdown, basic line break conversion and none.
Select which standard fields are visible by default on entries and pages.
Customize CSS styles used in the display of content in the rich text editor by pointing to a remote file or a file within the current theme.
Set whether punctuation and other symbols are replaced with their HTML character entity or ASCII equivalents for backward compatibility with databases and other systems that do not support UTF-8.
Description
Add custom fields not just to to entries and pages, but also to comments, assets, media files, categories, folders, blogs, websites and users.
Change the template tag used to access the data for a given field to anything you would like.
Make custom fields required or optional.
Set default values for any custom field if desired.
Custom fields support file types including images, audio, video and generic files.
Create thumbnails of any size. Movable Type supports four major image manipulation protocols: GD, NetPBM, Imager and ImageMagick.
See at a glance all files in the system to edit metadata, update the files and see where they are used.
Description
Save new entries, comments and assets via external programs via the Movable Type Data API.
Access existing entries, comments TrackBacks, user accounts, blogs, websites, categories and even site statistics via external programs via the Movable Type Data API.
Update existing entries, comments, TrackBacks and user accounts via external programs via the Movable Type Data API.
Delete entries, comments and TrackBacks via external programs via the Movable Type Data API.
Description
Easy to use templates output the exact text entered, making it dead simple to create templates for any pre-existing site design.
Designers don’t need to know anything about Movable Type’s underlying software or programming language to create templates.
Since templates are directly output after processing any template language, you can build files of any plain text programming language that is parsed at execution time. Simply set the template to publish as an appropriate file extension.
Do anything from the basic placement of content to advanced conditional code using Movable Type’s markup language. Powerful language constructs like simple, array and hash variables combined with several types of loops allow you to do just about anything imaginable with template code.
Dozens of functions can be applied to the output of any template tags or sections to do things like escape for XML, URLs or JavaScript, do find and replace operations and many other text processing functions.
Save templates to files, allowing integration with file based versioning or backup software. Linked template files can also be edited directly instead of through the Movable Type interface.
Specify how many previous versions to save on a per blog basis so you can revert changes and have an audit trail. Each version can have a comment to help understand the changes.
Templates can be published on demand or sent to the publishing queue to improve the user experience.
Templates can be set to dynamic mode, where the system will generate them on the fly.
Never lose work! Savw existing templates with a single click when applying a new theme or refreshing the templates from an existing theme. A special listing screen allows you to view and restore any backed up template and see the date it was saved.
User roles and permissions can be used to only allow designated users access to templates on a per blog basis.
Use the export theme function to produce an archive of all of your templates for backup or distribution.
Easily create new templates based on existing ones.
Index templates have a one to one relationship with published files.
Archive templates can be used to create many published files that correspond to lists of entries or pages organized by date, category, folder or author. You can have separate templates for each of these or even use a single template for all of them. This enables simple creation of concepts like category or monthly archives.
Easily change the code used for system functions like user registration, commenting and more, including the content of e-mails sent by the system.
Template modules are templates that do not directly correspond to published files, but rather can be included within other templates. This enables reusing code, such as for headers, footers or sidebars, or even just breaking large templates into smaller pieces that are easier to manage.
Create sets of widgets, which are like template modules but can be rearranged by dragging and dropping. This can allow for visually designing a sidebar, for instance, allowing blog managers to pick from a set of existing widgets to design their respective pages.
Template modules can be placed within a website such that all child blogs can access them.
Template modules can be placed at the system level such that all child websites and blogs can access them.
Movable Type can incorporate the contents of any given file during the publishing process, useful for integrating with external applications.
Set template modules to use PHP style includes on a per blog basis.
Set template modules to use Apache style includes on a per blog basis.
Set template modules to use ASP style includes on a per blog basis.
Set template modules to use JSP style includes on a per blog basis.
Enable or disable template module caching at the blog level and on a per blog basis.
Control the cache expiration for each template module individually, based on age or based on creation or modification of comments, users, TrackBacks, folders, pages or assets.
Description
A personal blog can be created upon user registration if desired. Options include setting the blog theme, default language, default time zone and the website the blog should be created under.
Users can log into your site using their existing membership with any OpenID compatible service, including Google and Yahoo!.
Movable Type includes a complete user registration system so you can build your own community to drive engagement.
Enable or disable comments and TrackBacks at the system level.
Enable or disable comments and TrackBacks on a per blog basis.
Option to automatically delete spam comments after a certain number of days and to control the aggressiveness of the spam filter.
Automatically apply a “nofollow” attribute to links in comments so your site’s search ranking is not affected by the sites linked to in comments. Additionally, trusted commenters can pass through this filter if enabled.
Set whether comments are immediately published for all users, authenticated users, trusted users or no one.
Disallow HTML in comments entirely or allow only certain tags.
Control whether e-mails are sent to blog editors when comments are submitted or when moderation is required.
Using Notify Who?!, control exactly who should receive entry, comment and TrackBack notifications for each blog. Options include notifying the entry author, arbitrary e-mail addresses, a special blog address book or any combination of these. For entry notifications, you can configure the plugin to send them automatically or to simply provide defaults for the Share entry screen. Automatic notifications can be disabled on a per entry basis by toggling the link directly above the entry save and preview buttons.
Transform URLs in comment text into HTML links.
Comments can be treated as plain text or processed through the convert line breaks or Markdown filters.
Use supplied CAPTCHA images to protect against spam comments and user registrations. Optionally, the reCaptcha plugin can be used to integrate with that popular service.
Redirect users to a special confirmation page or opt to return directly to the entry or page right after a comment is submitted.
Control who can use the recommendation feature.
Set the destination for files submitted via the community pack’s “create entry” form on a community blog or forum.
Set whether entries posted by users who do not have permission to publish entries on a community blog or forum are run through junk filters for comments and scored for spam.
Description
We offer a variety of support packages. Please contact us for more information.
Static publishing means users can still access your website even if the database goes down.
Movable Type’s core is written in Perl, the legendary programming language that is more structured and secure than PHP.
Extremely high traffic websites can benefit from Movable Type’s support for many server setups. You can publish from a main app server to many front end servers, or even spread some of the system’s functionality across any number of servers.
Movable Type supports Windows Server and OSX as well as Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and any other similar operating system.
All versions of Movable Type support MySQL databases.
Movable Type Enterprise supports Oracle databases.
Movable Type Enterprise supports Microsoft SQL Server.
Description
Define a variety of user types, each with a distinct set of permissions. Making Movable Type match your business structure is easy!
Assign to each user any number of roles that can differ by blog and website. A user can be an administrator for one blog, but only be allowed to moderate comments on another.
Customize the roles that are automatically assigned to users upon registration on your site.
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Set the password policies, such as minimum length and requiring a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, requiring a combination of letters and numbers and requiring special characters.
Set thresholds for locking out users who attempt login with an incorrect password a certain number of times within a certain period.
Set thresholds for locking out IP addresses that are used to attempt logins with an incorrect password a certain number of times within a certain period.
Prevent trusted IP addresses from being locked out. This is helpful for preventing one user in an office from locking out the company’s own IP address.
See and control all banned IP addresses.
Set a systemwide base site path to prevent any sites from being published outside a given root directory.
Disable comments for all websites and blogs in one place.
Disable receipt of TrackBacks for all websites and blogs in one place.
Disable notification pings for all websites and blogs in one place.
Disable new user registration for all websites and blogs in one place, and set designated users to receive notifications upon user registration.
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Control the length of automatically generated names used in URLs.
Limit an entry listing to a certain number of entries, pages or days, control the order, set the number of words in automatically generated excerpts and control the date format according to language.
Set an explicit Creative Commons license per blog to easily inform your users how your content can be used and shared.
The system can publish files to anywhere on your system you want, including outside the designated blog root if desired.
For extra security and convenience, you have the flexibility to run Movable Type at a different domain name or subdomain than is used to access the published website.
Set the default extension for published entries, pages and listings per blog, or customize it for individual templates.
Designate as primary one of multiple templates that publish entries or pages for different platforms or formats. This allows control of the file pointed to by the entry or page’s permalink used throughout the site.
Enable or disable publishing of category archives that contain no entries.
Description
Most listing screens are powered by the Movable Type listing framework, which enables quick sorting by any of the column headings, powerful custom search filters and display options that include controlling the number of items displayed and the columns displayed.
To better facilitate background publishing, Movable Type includes a script that can be called with a scheduled task to handle publishing items in the queue and other maintenance tasks. This script can also be run in continuous daemon mode or limited to a certain number of processes.
Manage at the system level all saved listing framework filters and see who created them and when. Click the filter names to jump right to that particular search.
Movable Type includes a powerful search and replace function that will help you find exactly what you seek within entries, pages, comments, TrackBacks, templates, assets, users, blogs or the activity log. You can limit your search to specific fields, date ranges, and for advanced users, you can even use regular expressions.
Find and fix broken inbound links to your website by logging all 404 errors with the Clean Sweep plugin. Users get redirected to a helpful error page, while you get to see at a glance the “top attempted” wrong links, which you can then choose to automatically redirect to the proper page.
See all plugins and their settings at a glance and enable or disable individual plugins at the system level.
Easily migrate your data into or out of the system or between systems with the basic entry export utilities.
Create a theme package from your current templates, categories, folders and custom fields so you can easily deploy your current theme on another site or distribute your work to others.
Make a backup archive of your entire system and restore from a backup from within the administration screen.
See all recorded activity in one place, including user registrations and logins, failed login attempts, search records, information about comment, entry, page, blog, website and template creation, error messages and more.
Get the total number of users and commenters and information about the server environment for informational purposes and to assist with troubleshooting.
Set the e-mail address used by the system and send test e-mails to verify functionality.
Developer friendly debug modes can be enabled to display basic debug messages, stack traces, database queries issued, template build time reports and more.