Key Features

Full-Featured Weblogs

Template-based custom output:
All pages generated by Movable Type are defined by a simple template tag language. Integration with existing page designs or creation of custom output formats is simple.

Flexible static and dynamic PHP publishing controllable on a per-template basis
Choose between static page generation or dynamic pages on a per-template basis. This allows you to optimize the performance of your weblog, providing you the best of both worlds: you can turn on static page generation for frequently-requested pages like your site index and feeds, and use dynamic pages for your monthly, individual, and other archive pages. This allows you to create the best balance of fast rebuilds and low web server load. Dynamic pages completely eliminate the need to manually rebuild your files; when you update the design of your archive templates, for example, the design of your site will immediately be updated without requiring you to rebuild.

Flexible Archiving:
Default support for archiving by individual post, post category, or by date groups such as monthly or weekly is included, with additional archive types available.

Community management through comments and TrackBack:
Movable Type helps your users connect to your weblog and to each other, by enabling readers to comment on weblog posts and giving authors the ability to manage content submitted through comments and TrackBack.

Simple, powerful interface:
Movable Type’s simple user interface is widely recognized as being easy for new users to adopt while affording advanced users the power they need. The user interface is easily customizable.

Powerful Customization

Powerful plug-in architecture:
Movable Type features an extensible plug-in system allowing even non-technical users to extend Movable Type’s native functionality and ease integration with other technologies.

Editable object-oriented Perl source code:
Movable Type’s clean, well-documented source code is modifiable using standard Perl, one of the most popular scripting languages in existence.

Plug-in library:
The Movable Type plug-in library offers hundreds of free or low-cost plug-ins from developers around the world.

Broad Developer Community:
Thousands of talented developers from around the world participate in Movable Type’s plug-in community, making it easy to find consultants and programmers for any project.

Support for Standards

Localization and Internationalization:
Movable Type ships with full support for Unicode and international character sets, and Six Apart provides language packs for English, French, and Japanese with more expected shortly.

Programming Interfaces:
Movable Type supports the Atom API (application programming interface) and Metaweblog API, allowing dozens of third-party clients and devices to post data to the system.

Syndication:
All common data syndication formats are supported by Movable Type’s default templates, including XML formats such as RSS and Atom. Any other custom formats can be created through Movable Type’s template tags.

Platform Support:
Movable Type’s broad platform support for various operating systems and web servers simplifies integration with any web services platform.

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