Movable Type

Movable Type

16 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Movable Type	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Movable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.	N/A

Pricing

Movable Type

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Movable Type
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Movable Type
Considered Both Products	Movable Type Sophia Ahn Web Producer Chose Movable Type WordPress and Movable Type are the go to CMS for a reason - they are by far the easiest to navigate, learn, and use for daily blogging/content management. And now with more plug-ins available, these CMS products are getting more responsive and are offering capabilities (even … Incentivized Helpful? Jean Louis Web Designer/Developer Chose Movable Type I've used Joomla! and Drupal. Both are power CMSs but I found it easier to work with Movable Type. Every CMS has its positive and negative points, but I found more benefits to using Movable Type compared to Joomla! and Drupal. Helpful? Dennis Dewey Web Developer Chose Movable Type Movable Type is better than Wordpress because it generates static sites that cannot be broken by losing your database connection. The custom fields in MT are superior to Wordpress because of the way the fields are presented in the new content form. You need to get paid plugins … Helpful? James Warkulwiz Web Manager Chose Movable Type I believe that these two product are interchangeable for my purposes. I believe WordPress is slightly more complicated and prone to accidents to someone dealing solely with writing like myself; however, this seems to be the hot product right now, and Moveable Type may need to … Helpful? Mark Guthrie Marketing Web Developer Chose Movable Type I'd say Wordpress is better because it's free, but MT is better than Drupal,Joombla and Concrete5. Helpful? Kurtis Amundson Website Developer Chose Movable Type Compared to other content management systems that I have used, Movable Type is certainly a top-of-the-line platform. It is my primary choice when building large and intense user-based websites. If I'm building something simple, like a client portfolio website, I may stick with … Helpful? Michelle Belmont Web Specialist Chose Movable Type Movable Type is outdated and out of style with current blog design trends. Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Movable Type Movable Type can be compared to WordPress. It's easy to use, and I would say Movable Type is actually more user-friendly. Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Movable Type I have not used any other product except Movable Type for my job needs because this is a fairly new position for me. However, with the positive experiences that I have had with Movable Type thus far, I cannot imagine using another product to meet the demands of my job. I am … Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro User friendly Pro Easy to use Pro Old system
Top Cons	Minus Limited number Minus Interactive content Minus Third party plugins

Features

Movable Type

Security

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	Movable Type 5.0 1 Ratings 46% below category average
Role-based user permissions	5.01 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

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	Movable Type 6.0 1 Ratings 24% below category average
API	6.01 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Movable Type 6.4 1 Ratings 17% below category average
WYSIWYG editor	9.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	6.01 Ratings
Admin section	8.01 Ratings
Page templates	5.01 Ratings
Library of website themes	3.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	8.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.01 Ratings
Form generator	3.01 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Movable Type 5.6 1 Ratings 27% below category average
Content taxonomy	9.01 Ratings
SEO support	6.01 Ratings
Bulk management	3.01 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	3.01 Ratings
Community / comment management	7.01 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Movable Type
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.4 (9 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Movable Type
Likelihood to Recommend	Six Apart Is your business an enterprise level business that has more than a half dozen different content types? If so, then you might want to use a dedicated CMS rather than Movable Type. Movable Type is best used on small / medium sized businesses and is not the best solution for a full-fledged CMS. If you're using your content for something other than just displaying a website, then it's probably not for you. Movable Type works great for news/blogging sites. In fact, Daring Fireball, one of the most popular Apple-centric blogs is using Movable Type as its publishing platform. Dennis Dewey Web Developer Read full review
Pros	Six Apart Easy to use straight out of the box, very user friendly with an intuitive interface. Great for team use where there are multiple editors and writers fixing and editing each other's works. It's easy to track who last made the latest edits. Stellar support team and system. I've found that Moveable Type's support system is generally more responsive and helpful than WordPress. Incentivized Sophia Ahn Web Producer Read full review
Cons	Six Apart Especially on the older versions, the limited number of well-developed third-party plugins is problematic for efficiently developing a well-functioning website. Versions of movable type which didn't allow pages to be constructed were difficult to create continuity in design and easily editable pages for our editors. The installation process could be simplified to make it easier for those new to a CMS to install. Kurtis Amundson Website Developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Six Apart I think there are still improvements to be made. I haven't tapped in to the full functionality of the CMS yet but the rating I give it now is only based on what I've been able to use it for Jean Louis Web Designer/Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Six Apart Movable Type can be compared to WordPress. It's easy to use, and I would say Movable Type is actually more user-friendly. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Six Apart Provided a blogging platform when we needed one. Helped us compare other blogging platforms as a baseline for what minimums we require and what we don't want. Users often refused to use Movable Type and would go around our official system in order to use my more friendly software. Michelle Belmont Web Specialist Read full review
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