Movable Type
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| Movable Type | |
 Movable Type logo |
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| Developer: | Six Apart |
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| Latest release: | 3.34 / January 17, 2007 |
| Platform: | Perl |
| Use: | Blog |
| License: | proprietary |
| Website: | www.sixapart.com/movabletype |
Movable Type is a proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart. It was publicly announced on 3 September 2001[1] and the first public release, version 1.0, was made on 8 October 2001[2].
One of its most well-known features is TrackBack, which was introduced in version 2.2; it has since been adopted by a variety of other blog systems. Movable Type also supports most popular weblogging features, including user accounts, comments, categories, and themes, and is extensible through a large library of third-party plug-ins. Movable Type is free of charge for personal blogs with unlimited authors and blogs; paid support and commercial licenses, which allow more authors and weblogs on a single installation of the software, are also available. [3] The current version is 3.34. [4]
Movable Type is written in Perl, and supports storage of the weblog's content and associated data within MySQL, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite; dynamic page generation is handled by Smarty. Movable Type Enterprise also supports the Oracle database. The application supports static page generation (in which files for each page are updated whenever the content of the site is changed), dynamic page generation (in which pages are composited from the underlying data as the browser requests them), or a combination of the two technologies.
With the release of version 3.0, there were marked changes in Movable Type's licensing [5], most notably placing greater restrictions on its use without paying a licensing fee. This sparked criticism from some users of the software. With the release of Movable Type 3.2, the ability to create an unlimited number of weblogs at all licensing levels was restored. In Movable Type 3.3, it is completely free for personal users.
Six Apart also maintains three other weblog publishing systems, TypePad , LiveJournal and Vox. While Movable Type is a system which needs to be installed on a user's own web server, TypePad is a hosted weblog service. LiveJournal is an entirely separate blogging system, acquired after Six Apart's buyout of Danga Interactive in January 2005.
Movable Type was originally named Serge after musician Serge Gainsbourg.
[edit] References
- ^ "Original announcement", Six Apart, 3 September 2001.
- ^ "Announcement of first public release", Six Apart, 8 October 2001.
- ^ Movable Type pricing and licenses information
- ^ "Announcing Movable Type 3.34", Six Apart, 17 January 2007.
- ^ "Mena's Corner: It's About Time", Six Apart, 13 May 2004.
