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Movable Type, Open Source Blog Software, Version 5 Beta Released

Sep 4, 2009 by Srikanth ADcloseAuthor: Srikanth AD Name: Srikanth AD
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Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here, has officially released its new version 5 Beta. Movable Type 5 focused on three major feature areas: websites, themes and CMS. Below is a summary of each,

Website Features

• New “website” object
• Blogs are associated to websites
• Pages can be added to websites
• Rebuild website separately from the contained blogs.
• App UI has the ability to move blogs between websites.

Themes

• Apply a theme with a single click and then rebuild the blog/website to apply changes to published website.
• Themes contain: templates, style-sheets, static files (images), widgets, categories, folders, and custom fields.
• Themes for websites and blogs.
• Install themes just like plugins.
• Export theme from current blog and optionally include all or a subset of the custom fields, static files, categories, and templates currently associated with the website or blog.

CMS

• Dashboard: A starting place for users to quickly jump to any blogs and websites they have the ability to manage.
• Revision history for entries, pages, and templates: Revisions contain all data related to the entry/page/template including custom fields values.
• Custom Fields by Category/Folder allows custom fields to be mapped to a category/folder.
• Custom Fields extended to five more object types(website, blog, template, asset, comment) in addition to Entry, Page, Category, Folder, and User.

Other Significant Features

• Deprecation of the custom JS libraries and adoption of jQuery for the MT app user interface.
• Extendable administration screens with jQuery and structured HTML
• New permissions and default roles
• All strings are now UTF-8 encoded
• Create and distribute your own design themes

Click here to read more about the features and updates on Movable Type version 5.

Download

• Movable Type 5.0 Pro Beta 1: zip | tar.gz
• The MT5 Pro Beta is also available in Japanese: zip | tar.gz

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