The Movable type is considered a professional publishing platform that requires local downloads. The flexibility to manage several blogs from one single interface makes it more acceptable. It projects itself as one stop solution to enable users build a site with blogs plus a social community with help of an integrated suite of blogging, content management and social networking features.

You can manage all your sites from one single dashboard to upload images, audio and video.With it, you can manage content with ease by using custom fields for entry, category, folder, page, user, site, comment, template etc to tailor the data to your requirements. It offers convenient workflow as you can easily see as well as track changes with the revision history feature.

More importantly, you can weave a community of prospects around your site. It enables readers to interact and share their thoughts with each other. Thus it becomes possible to create a professionally useful community with proper user profiles, community blogs and forums. In other words, you can convert your regular readers into prospects.

It allows customization of your design in a number of different ways. By making the content easier to locate you can increase page views. You can more efficiently manage, categorize as well as archive the content. There are options like comment control, e-mail verification and member registration to manage user interaction in a more organized manner.

An interactive community of users can be built through features like comments & forums, recommendations, community buzz and member profiles. These let users rate and recommend content to others as well as show them which content is currently the most popular.

Movable Type 5.1 has several new features as follows:

Manage categories & folders:
Drag and drop sorting

New attributes (namely, sort_by & sort_order) for tags <mt:SubCategories> , <mt:TopLevelCategories> , <mt:Subfolders> , <mt:TopLevelFolders>, <mt:EntryPrimaryCategory>

Manage contents with help of a new listing screen
o    More elaborate display options and custom filters
o    Bulk actions by choosing all from multiple webpages
o    The listing framework (for developers)

MultiBlog tags

• include_websites
• exclude_websites
• include_blogs
• exclude_blogs

<mt:Include> tag that comes with the parent=’1’ attribute to incorproate the module in parent site.

trim_to modifier along with ellipsis

blog_id param for specifying the template while searching multi blogs along with IncludeBlogs param. Make use of the first blog in includeblogs provided blog_id not specified.

Configuration Directives

• LocalLib added and Support Imager as an ImageDriver

Key usability enhancements

• Drag & drop input fields put on Edit Entries/Pages
• Choosing publish status from pulldown; saving from the preview
• Template editor’s syntax highlight On/Of
• Better and improved ‘included templates’ widget

After thorough beta testing, the Movable Type 5.1 is ready to download. Movable Type 4.36 and 5.05 are released as well as mandatory security updates. The updates are aimed at resolving certain vulnerabilities noticed in Movable Type 5.x as well as Movable Type 4.x.