Comments on: Movable Type 4 Review

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:09:58 +0000

Same as Michael Matera – I was wondering how you got the rating system with the stars? And does that work with MT4?

Regards,

Andrea

By: Michael Matera

Michael Matera — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:37:46 +0000

Hey nice job on this. I have two questions? One how did you get this great comment box I love it an want one this nice too. Very clean look to it. Second I was wondering how you got the rating system you have with the stars.

Thanks much,

Michael Matera

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:52:55 +0000

“Interesting consequence of their dual-licensing: they wonâ€™t be able to take any code from WordPress without killing their ability to have a copyrighted version. So code can flow from MT to WP all day long, but they wonâ€™t take any WP code.”

And just how much Perl _were_ you considering adding to WordPress?

Unless you’re talking about the PHP-based dynamic option that no-one uses, but I don’t think that that’s any great shakes.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:28:25 +0000

Ted – a lot of the MT developers have been working on documentation and examples of the templates. Hopefully we’ll also see some of the themes from MT3 upgraded / ported to MT4

Michele

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:37:12 +0000

I’m thinking of switching to MT from WP, but I’m still on the fence. I really like the way MT publishes essentially static HTML files — on a shared host that can really speed up the page loads — but the theme system is the most obfuscated and confusing thing I have ever seen.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:06:42 +0000

Aaron, a great article. I totally agree with you on the WordPress admin interface. Authors spend a lot of time with it, and it is simply not an interface at the enterprise level.

By: Dmitry HT

Dmitry HT — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:12:56 +0000

+1, nice article!
But Lindsay made a liitle mistake :)

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:28:36 +0000

A lot of the issues related to importing from WP to MT have already been rectified. I migrated a reasonably large site from WP to MT last week after the MT team patched some of the import stuff.

I did a short writeup on the process here:
http://www.movabletype4.eu/wordpress/migrating-a-largish-site-from-wordpress-to-movabletype-4.html

As for the themes and other stuff, I get the impression that a lot of people are badgering away in the background. Don’t forget there was a significant change between MT3 and MT4, so a lot of the old themes are currently “broken” in MT4. Hopefully people will find the time to fix them

Michele

By: Nakamura

Nakamura — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:19:54 +0000

gee, forgot to tell the link to my post:
http://www.superxm.com/2007/08/movable-type-4-installation-step-by-step-with-screenshots.html

(feel free to delte it,if considered spam over here!)

By: Nakamura

Nakamura — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:19:02 +0000

Aaron, i was installing MT platform for the first time and i “documented” the stuff, as a result i have blog post with handy explanations how to install and screenshots, i guess this info will help somebody and save time!
to me, so i can say i like MT 4, will keep on testing and improving it (more reports to come!) :)

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:21:32 +0000

I recommend you install Movable Type, keep an open mind about what they are doing and see if we can get some ideas (including code slurping!) from them.

As soon as they license it as GPL, I’ll be doing just that. I don’t want to dive into the code unless I know that the code in question is going to be present in the GPL version.

Interesting consequence of their dual-licensing: they won’t be able to take any code from WordPress without killing their ability to have a copyrighted version. So code can flow from MT to WP all day long, but they won’t take any WP code. This also means that at some point in the future 6A could say “MT is no longer licensed under the GPL” (and then it’d be orphaned until someone forked it).

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:05:37 +0000

I just started blogging this year and both my blogs are hosted on the free blogger platform. I was now considering moving it to a domain of own but was confused as to which blogging platform I should chose. (I am not too much of a techie) Thanx for the review anyway, I guess I will go with WordPress for now after reading this because I don’t want to go with something that costs me and then is difficult to implement and is worse compared to it’s competitor…!!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:40:39 +0000

Good to see you stop by Arvind. Now find me a decent theme and I’ll be happy!!!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:10:49 +0000

WOW! I was just starting to panic, I’ve just put up 2 sites and today I have had my new free ebook download thrash my bandwidth within an inch of its life, so, to think that I might have to change blogging systems to avoid dinosaur status was not a pleasant thought! Thanks heaps for a thoughtful post

By: Arvind Satyanarayan

Arvind Satyanarayan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:01:52 +0000

Hi Aaron, not to toot my own horn but custom fields functionality is available through a plugin aptly named CustomFields (http://plugins.movalog.com/customfields/) which has just started a public beta cycle of its own (a second beta will be available next week)