Movable Type Features Overview
Powerful enough for building blogs, websites or social networks on a single platform
It's easier than ever to publish and share information with Movable Type. Movable Type makes it simple to start a blog, manage entire websites and build an engaged community of readers and customers.
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What's New in Movable Type 4.2?
- Community features are now built in. Build a social network with Member Profiles and more.
- AntiSpam is built in. Six Apart's free, open source antispam product, TypePad AntiSpam, is built into Movable Type.
- It's faster! Common tasks like search are up to 100 times faster than in previous releases.
- It's more secure than ever before. Our security record keeps on improving.
- Search results are threaded. Paginated search results make it easy for visitors to find content.
- Commenting is threaded. Commenters can now respond to one another.
- New professional templates. Beautiful, new professional templates are now included.
- Simpler default templates. New templates make it easier than ever to build your site.
- Faster, better publishing. Choose synchronous or asynchronous publishing to fit your schedule.
Go Pro: Movable Type Pro
Movable Type Pro is the all-in-one solution that enables you to build a blog, website, or social network
Build Custom Blogs and Websites
- Create the site you want. Build interactive blogs and websites with Movable Type's integrated suite of social networking, blogging and content management features.
- Manage all of your sites and assets from a single Dashboard. Input content, view activity, and manage media assets from one place.
- Grow, flourish and prosper. Movable Type is the most flexible and scalable solution for accommodating high-traffic loads and large communities of readers.
Use Movable Type as Your CMS
- Manage your content with ease. Movable Type uses global templates and custom fields that enable the addition of meta-data to any asset and make content management simple.
- Manage, archive and search media assets. The Movable Type asset manager makes it easy to upload media assets of all types - images, video, audio and more.
Build a Social Network
- Enable your readers to interact with each other. Build a professional-grade social network, with user profiles, ratings, community blogs, forums, and more.
- Turn your readers into members. Member Profiles enable readers to create their own profiles so that they can connect with each other.
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Movable Type Enterprise
Movable Type Enterprise offers all the features and functionality of Movable Type Pro, with a few additional enterprise-specific solutions:
- LDAP Directory Support. Connect Movable Type to a variety of LDAP-compliant directory servers such as Active Directory, OpenLDAP, iPlanet and more.
- Group Management. Combine MT role management with LDAP to easily administer and maintain blogs across an organization.
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases. Support for Oracle 10g or later and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Oracle Database 10g
- iPlanet
- OpenLDAP
Why Choose the Movable Type Platform?
- Movable Type is an all-in-one solution. Create blogs, develop websites, manage content, and build social networks - all in one package.
- Movable Type is scalable. As your site grows and becomes more successful, the platform scales to accommodate your fluctuating traffic needs.
- Movable Type is proven. For more than seven years, Movable Type has been on the forefront of blogging innovation, and powers the largest and most influential blogs on the web.
- Movable Type is supported. We offer optional support for bloggers, online support for businesses, and premium support for enterprise and high-traffic bloggers.
