Ewan's Corner

MT4 is here – time for an upgrade :-) Simply the best publishing platform there is – absolutely free (for personal use), full support for paid versions, excellent documentation, totally extensible (great plugin community), easy to use and setup, OpenID support, I’ll stop now.

Update:

Upgrade complete – it was a piece of cake (the only thing which took any time was the templates – I recreated them from scratch using the MT4 defaults since my templates were a mix and match of stuff from years ago, modified with each new MT release).

The only gotcha for me was permalink filenames – the MT4 default replaces spaces in titles with dashes (so the published archive filename for this entry was “movable-type-4-has-landed.php” despite the basename in the db being “movable_type_4_has…”). A simple change to the Entry archive mapping fixed that.

New functionality rocks – far better admin interface (the listing screens in particular are brilliant), a file/asset manager (finally), WYSIWYG editor (I still prefer Windows Live Writer, but hey) with Textile, Live Preview built in instead of being a separate plugin (others too), standalone page support, OpenID support (plus user registration), email notifications for thread updates and better feed support for admin / management.

Links:

• Presenting Movable Type 4.0 (also Anil’s post Behold, Movable Type 4.0)
• What’s new in MT4
• Documentation (don’t forget the MT Community Forum)