Introducing Movable Type 5.1

Introducing version 5.1 and the future plan

Currently under development 5.1

The ﬁrst beta will start on February 15th.

The goal

A successful website hasThousands of entriesand comments Hundreds of users and categoriesDozens of blogs

You need a solution toScale up your website withless effort andwith minimum resources

what’s new ?

The Listing FrameworkSort Categories ( Folders ) Multi blog improvementsIE8, Webkit ready

Drag & Drop to sortCategories and Folders

New in 5.1Drag & drop categories (folders)

Use “sort_by” attribute in MT tags• Sorted categories will be displayed by • mt:TopLevelCategories • mt:SubCategories • mt:CategoryNext • mt:CategoryPrevious New in 5.1 with sort_by=”user_custom”

Customize “Edit Entry” screen

New in 5.0 Display custom ﬁelds whenspeciﬁc categories are selected

New in 5.1Drag & drop to change the order of input ﬁelds ( including custom ﬁelds)

The Listing Framework

Before...Display Options in MT4.x and 5.0

New in 5.1Display almost any data with 5.1ID, number of comments, users, modiﬁed date, etc...

New in 5.1Before...

New in 5.1Display code hint for Custom Fields in the list

New in 5.1Click column to sort the list e.g. Sort entries by number of comments

New in 5.1Faster Ajax loading

New in 5.1“Select all” from multiple pages

Custom Filters

Before...Filters in MT4.x and 5.0

New in 5.1Filter by almost any column

New in 5.1 Join multiple ﬁlterse.g. Display entries with comments & updates within a week

Sort after ﬁltering

Save as custom ﬁlters

New listing screens are available for• Entries, Pages• Comments, Trackbacks• Websites, blogs• Users, Permissions At almost any listing screen.

The Listing Framework for developers

Custom ObjectCreate a custom object by plugin

New in 5.1Deﬁne the custom list with conﬁg.yaml

Display options, ﬁlters and sort are automatically available with the custom object

Associate the custom object to entries

Display the custom object in a entry listing screen

Manage all contentsat the system level

MT5.0x Back in 5.1 MT5.1

Back in 5.1Manage comments for all blogs

Designing a portal with MTML Data mt:Entries Variable mt:SetVar Conditional mt:If, mt:Loop No executable code <?php $result = mysql_query(); ?>MTML is the powerful and secure template language

<mt:Entriesinclude_blogs=”children”> MT 5.0 website Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

<mt:Entries include_blogs=”children” exclude_blogs=”2”> New in 5.1 website Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

<mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”exclude_blogs=”2” category=”news”> website Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

Secure permission/privilege control Designer AdminAuthor Author Author

Sharing template modules in a website New in 5.1<$mt:Include module="X" parent="1"$>e.g. Include the same header navigation module from children blogs

New in 5.1Better view of template structure

Back in 5.1Template editor syntax highlight On/Off

Supporting modern browsers Internet Explorer 8 Safari latest Firefox latest Chrome should work ﬁne although it is not ofﬁcially supported

MT is written inHTML5 + CSS3 + jQuery

All ImplementedCurrently under the testing phase

You can get the bleeding edge version of the code from GitHub !

% git clone http://github.com/movabletype/movabletype.git% cd movabletype% make me

Also nightly buildsare available athttp://www.movabletype.org/downloads/nightlies/

The 5.1 Beta will start on February 15th. to be completed in 3 months

FutureRoadmap

Movable Type 5.2 The requirement phase will start from March 2011 Your feedback is always welcomed at • FogBugz : http://bugs.movabletype.org/ • Forum : http://forums.movabletype.org/ • ML : mtos-dev@sixapart.com

Current scope (TBD)

New default themes <html> 5 CSS 3

Spin off themes to GitHubAnybody can fork them to create their own theme

Better deployment for solution developers

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http://feeds.feedburner.com	460
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http://www.tmtbox.com	316
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https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu	274
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Introducing Movable Type 5.1

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