About Movable Type 3.3

• Important upgrade information
  There are a number of important behavioral and compatibility changes in Movable Type 3.3 that are crucial to be aware of if you are upgrading from a previous version of Movable Type.

• Movable Type 3.3 features
  Version 3.3 is the latest update to our flagship product, Movable Type. You can find full details of changes (including bugfixes) since version 3.2 in the Movable Type changelog.

Downloadable Manuals

The downloadable User Manual and Installation/Upgrade guide for Movable Type are linked below. These documents give you an overview of the system as well as directed procedures for all of the most common tasks.

• User Manual (5.8MB, PDF, revision 1)
• Installation Guide (520K, PDF)

We recommend downloading the manuals to your computer and opening them locally. To do so, right click one of the links above and choose Save Target As or Save Link As from the pop-up menu. In the Save As dialog box, select a location on your hard drive, and then click Save.

Online resources

Movable Type is a powerful and highly customizable publishing system. Below we've provided more in-depth resources for those who are interested in pushing the product to its limits.

• Configuration Directives
  The configuration file (mt-config.cgi) controls every important aspect of the system's operation. This is done through the use of configuration directives detailed herein.

• Template Tag Reference
  Template tags allow you to select and customize the blog-and system-related data you'd like to include on your published blog pages.

• Global Filters
  Global filter attributes can be applied to nearly any template tag in order to manipulate its output.

• Date Formats
  All date-related template tags (MTDate, MTEntryDate, etc) can be formatted for output by use of the format attribute and the date format specifiers.

• Archive File Path Specifiers
  While most common URL schemes are provided for easy selection within the Movable Type publishing settings, further customization can be done through the use of shortcut Archive File Path specifiers.

• Import format
  If you are migrating your blog from blogging software other than Movable Type or Movable Type Enterprise, the Import format will help you create your import data file.

• Contextual-help
  Contextual help links are provided throughout the Movable Type administrative interface to give more information about each field and control.

• Pre-installed plugins
  Movable Type ships with a number of pre-installed plugins which help you easily design your blogs and manage, administer and protect your installation.

• Known Issues
  We maintain a public list of known issues with our software to keep you apprised of any problems that may exist.

• Errata
  The documentation is a work in progress. We have published a set of errata detailing those missing elements.