This document discusses new features in Movable Type 5.1, including an improved listing framework for managing large amounts of data with custom listing and sorting capabilities. It notes supported browsers and provides information on internationalizing plugins and themes. The schedule targets a beta release in the autumn and full release in early 2011.

1. MTDDC July 31st. 2010
Jun Kaneko

2. 5.1
enables you to
Manage Large Amounts of Data
with Custom Listing and Sorting
using Modern Browsers

3. Listing Framework
Integrating
the System, Websites and Blogs
Custom Sorting of
Categories and Folders
IE8, Webkit support

4. Listing Framework

5. Have you ever tried to...
10,000+ users in the forum
Filter users who have
never posted any topic or comment
also been registered
more than a year ago
Delete !

6. Or during your website renewal...
1,000+ existing pages
Filter pages by the folder
Sort by the Basename
List renewal pages

7. Yes, you can do it with
5.1

8. Add/Remove columns
NOTE: This feature is in development phase and
specifications are subject to change.

9. Filter entries within 30 days
Sort by the number of comments
NOTE: This feature is in development phase and specifications are subject to change.

10. Combine multiple filters
Save as a custom filter
NOTE: This feature is in development phase and specifications are subject to change.

11. “Listing Framework” covers;
Managing
• Pages, Entries
• Comments, Trackbacks
• Websites, Blogs
• Users, Permissions
etc

12. Select all or some items across
the paginated results

13. Demo ?

14. You can check out the latest code from the SVN !
% svn co http://code.sixapart.com
/svn/movabletype/trunk

15. For Plugin Developers
With a new listing framework, you can
• Add custom columns from your plugin
• Use Ajax API to render the dynamic listing
More documentation will be available
during 5.1 Beta.

16. Sorting Categories and Folders

17. Drag & Drop to sort categories and folders
• Custom sort can be specified in MT tags
• MTTopLevelCategories
• MTSubCategories
• MTCategoryNext
• MTCategoryPrevious
sort_by=”user_custom”

18. Integrating
the System, Websites and Blogs

19. Manage all entries, comments
and other objects at the system level

20. mt:Include in Movable Type 5.0
<mt:BlogParentWebsite>
<$mt:WebsiteID setvar="website_id"$>
</mt:BlogParentWebsite>
<$mt:Include module="XXX" blog_id="$website_id"$>

21. In Movable Type 5.1
<$mt:Include module="XXX" parent="1"$>
Include the website template from children blogs, the
website version of global=”1”. MT will search only
website templates, not to escalate to the sytem.

22. Link to the proper templates

23. Using include_blogs and exclude_blogs together
<mt:Entries include_blogs="all"
exclude_blogs="1, 3">
<mt:Entries include_blogs="children"
exclude_blogs="1, 3">

24. Template Editor Syntax Hi-light On/Off

25. Supported Browsers
Internet Explorer 8
Safari latest
Firefox latest
No change for the server environment

26. Welcome Feedback
Feature Requests
Discussions Bug Reports
Forum
http://forums.movabletype.org/
MTOS-dev ML
http://www.sixapart.com
/mailman/listinfo/mtos-dev
http://bugs.movabletype.org/

27. Internationalizing
your plugins and themes

28. Our community will help you to
Internationalize your plugins, themes and
the documentation

29. Collaborating on GitHub
Project forked by
the collaborator
“Pull” Request
to merge the change

30. Recommended License
“This library is a free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.”
= Dual Licensing of GPL and Artistic
The most popular license in CPAN
“Creative Commons” is recommended for themes

31. Document Translation Project
Movable Type Designerʼs guide, contributed by
Hajime Fujimoto.
Translation

32. 5.1 Schedule
Start BETA this Autumn
Release at the beginning of 2011

33. There is more than one way to do it,
but sometimes
consistency is
not a bad thing either.
Perl motto

34. Create your own way
by sharing it with others.
Thank you !