Easier to use and to customize products available for your users
April 30, 2014
Easier to use and to customize products available for your users
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
4.31
Overall Satisfaction with Movable Type
The 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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
- 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
Movable Type is outdated and out of style with current blog design trends.
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