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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.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/hk/o6/7RT1FLSW32CC.PNGSix ApartMovable Type great for small sites on shared environments.2014-05-08T19:32:11.023ZI was using Movable Type to set up small-medium sized websites for various clients including my own portfolio website for myself. It is a good lightweight CMS and blogging platform. I would usually choose Movable Type over Wordpress because it is more reliable out of the box. It is difficult to "Fireball" a Movable Type site because the platform creates static pages.,Renders one or more static pages per node/content item. Static pages are better for high traffic sites because dynamic sites do not always properly implement caching and are more likely to fail from needing a constant database connection.
Out of the box, the custom fields in Movable Type are much more intuitive to work with than Wordpress and other blogging platforms. The custom fields even work better than some dedicated content management systems such as Joomla. Custom fields can be defined for several different entity types such as content and taxonomy. The fields show up in the new content form and are easy to find and use.
The templating language in Movable Type is extremely rich and has many nice features built in. There is less of a need to extend for further templating functionality and you can also add some of your own PHP to the mix to add more features.,The installation of Movable Type still needs improvement. I've had to learn quite a bit about setting up my own apache servers in the past, but most of the needed modules for Movable Type come preinstalled nowadays with many server stacks.
The customization of the backend is much more complicated in comparison to Wordpress or other content management systems. It is difficult to rebrand the backend interface without hacking core files.
The licensing of Movable Type is confusing, keeps changing and now you're unable to get an open source version of MT6.x.
Movable Type could use its own command line utility like Drush for Drupal.,7,It works well enough on shared hosting so it yields good returns in situations where your client cannot afford dedicated servers.,,5Dennis DeweyMy type is Movable Type2014-05-14T18:30:53.122ZWe used Movable Type as a blogging tool for our editors/writers. With the amount of content being posted to our site on a daily basis, the blogging platform helped boost our SEO strategy.
I've also used Movable Type to build CMSs for a lot of my clients that were looking to manage their own websites. The CMS helped makes it easy to update content on your website and at the same time allows you to post blog entries on a daily basis. This helps keep customers informed of company announcements.,User-friendly interface which makes it very easy to navigate.
It allows you to easily create multiple blogs in one installation.
I like the long list of plugins that are available to use.,Better gallery plugin
Publishing
Template tools,6,It's a good tool when it comes to blogging.
There a lot for a developer to know and understand when building a template.
It is no longer free.,,7Jean LouisMovable Type - Good platform that wants to be free2014-04-30T20:18:38.973ZIt is used as the company intranet. I set up a MT site for each employee to log in to for internal resources. This minimizes calls to each department because people can just log in to the intranet and get what they need. It is used across the entire organization.,Blogging
Content Management
User Roles,It cost too much
Should be free
Creating your own templates should be easier,6,The Internal Communications has greatly benefited from it
Provided a place for our files in one central location,WordPress,Acquia Drupal,Joomla!,Concrete5,6Mark GuthrieFlexible & Multi-Purposed Website Platform2014-04-30T20:14:58.237ZThe Creative Media Department of our company used Movable Type to manage many of the websites that our company ran. From the President's Blog to the news pages on our ministry partner's websites, our creative staff was able to make any design and content adjustments to all of our websites from a single installation. We also had several stand-alone websites for expeditions which were hosted by the software and accessible by additional users. Having all of the content management for multiple websites available in one location really was key for our company needs and workflow.,Movable type seamlessly integrates multiple websites in one installation which allows easy access to the content and design.
Template tags and coding is well documented by Movable Type to provide developers like me the tools required to make completely custom designs.
The more recent versions of Movable Type have really upped the ante on how broadly the platform can be used (such as for blogs, forums, e-commerce, etc.),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.,8,Movable Type definitely increased employee efficiency. Having everyone on the same platform to edit multiple websites from system is crucial.
Expanding our website presence was a super simple process with Movable Type. All we needed to do was add another site, destination folder, and we're ready to go.
Having all of our web designers on the same platform helped immensely with communicating information and structuring education for new employees.,WordPress,ExpressionEngine,8Kurtis AmundsonEasier to use and to customize products available for your users2014-04-30T20:07:24.079ZThe organization I was with used Movable Type for blogs written by students and faculty. It was used by the whole organization, though it is now being phased out. It addressed a need to communicate about class projects in a blog style format.,Once you understood how the MT language and framework worked, customization wasn't too difficult.
Allowed for levels of user access.
Ease of creating RSS feeds.,Very clunky and out dated product compared to WordPress or Blogger.
Not user friendly. Required a lot of training.
Difficult for users to layout their blog entries as expected.
Difficult to upload images in a consistent format.
Features that never worked consistently: password protection.
Blog frequently went down.,3,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.,WordPress,Blogger,Tumblr,1Michelle BelmontMovable Type Review and Evaluation2014-04-08T15:37:05.324ZI primarily used Movable Type when I was performing free lance web designing. I would use it at the CMS for clients so they could easily modify and add content on their sites without having any coding experience. I used Moveable Type over its competitors because it was more open to modifications and customization. It was very easy to template and depending on how proficient your PHP and SQL skills were, you could make the platform do anything you wanted.
The man issue I had was implementing the dynamic page load portion of it. I couldn't get it to work so many of my pages were loaded statically. The issue with this is some of my site's typical side bar content (ex. Recently posted....) content was not updating. I also used the system on a site that grew to about 800+ pages. This resulted in build errors and system errors.,Very easy to theme.
The control panel is simple enough for the basic user to figure out
Very easy to add plugins and more complex code.,The actual plugin website seems out of date and not well maintained.
The system seemed to crash for much larger sites (800+ entries).,6,Most of my Movable Type sites were smaller scaled or did not really have marketing goals so this isn't applicable to my case.,5Joffroi HolcombeMoveable Type @ The Daily Collegian2014-05-02T23:17:28.981ZMoveable Type was used in a CMS function to reproduce print stories quickly online for my college's student newspaper. We were able to copy and paste stories into the CMS, attach the appropriate tags, and publish the stories so they would appear online as the print version of the newspaper was produced.,Tagging
Pages
Archiving,Security
Multimedia integration
Memory leaks,7,The ability to link to older articles
Creating multiple outlets for readers to choose
Upgrading print media to deal with the digital age,WordPress,1James WarkulwizGTD: Gets Things Done2014-04-22T17:38:52.297ZWhen I worked at a newspaper, we launched an entertainment website that functioned as an arm of our entertainment section. It was used by about a dozen people, who essentially functioned as bloggers. So basically, we were using it as a content management system. I also seem to recall that the newspaper used Movable Type to make posts to the news side of the website. We all had our own logins and would schedule postings to particular parts of the entertainment website and the newspaper site. I would characterize our use as departmental, specifically from an editorial perspective.,It provided easy management of blog postings. I was able to set up content early and schedule my posts for a later date.
The interface was user friendly so you don't need to spend a lot of time in training. I was able to figure out a lot of the product on my own.
You could assign different administrative privileges to certain people. This means that certain people could only post to certain modules.,While it's beneficial to be able to assign administrative rights to a user so they can only post to certain places of a website, I can recall that Movable Type did not inform general users of the types of privileges they had. So, for example, when I knew I needed to make a posting to a certain area, and was unable to do so, I was not informed that I did not have access to make that posting. It would have been helpful for Movable Type to post a message on the screen, saying that I needed more permissions. This was very frustrating, especially when I was on deadline for a newspaper story.
Unfortunately, (or fortunately), I do not recall other negative experiences. I thought it was a pretty clean, friendly interface.,7,A product like this doesn't require a lot of time looking for IT support. It's easy and fast to use and you can learn it on the fly.
Employees worked efficiently and quickly, often by writing their stories directly into Movable Type. There was never any down time and product updates were always within the scope of the overall interface, so we could always pick up right where we left off and intuitively navigated an improved interface that provided for an enhanced experience.,,8Verified UserFirst Experiences With Movable Type2014-04-09T23:47:09.449ZMovable Type is used by the Office of Communications Division at Oberlin College & Conservatory. As a student blogger, we utilize the program to manage the Oberlin blogs for all contributors--students, admissions people and past bloggers. It helps us to effectively address a social media presence issue as well as helps Oberlin to successfully market its breadth of student perspectives while begin something fun and easy to engage with.,I like that there is a quick post option-- in the event that I ever need to post a blog quickly, I can do so.
There is an autosave function! One time, I mistakenly worked on a draft and did not save it but the server (thankfully) auto-saved my work and placed it in my draft box for me to return to later.
The preview tool truly comes in handy with assessing formatting issues, spelling errors and other proofreading necessities.,I would love to see more streamlined features for my writing-- like a smoother toolbar for bolding, underlining and italicizing things.
The work screen can often be very bland, I would enjoy seeing different ways of customizing my screen.
I would appreciate having a sidebar that shows me quick options (how to insert images, how to reformat lines, etc.) because it would make my writing process go a bit faster.,8,I am definitely more efficient as a student blogger when I transition into working with Movable Type
As a college student, I have gained a tremendous technological skill in becoming acquainted with Movable Type
My resume is probably a lot stronger by the addition of knowledge in navigating Movable Type and I will have the opportunity to work in more spaces because of that.,,8Verified User
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