introducing movable type 5.1

Introducing Movable Type 5.1 5.124th May, 2011

24th May

MT5.1 was released on

The Goal

Thousands of entries and comments

A successful website has

Hundreds of usersand categories

Dozens of blogs

Scale up your website

with less effort and

with minimum resources

You need a solution to

what’s new ?

Blog A Blog B Blog C

Website 1 Website 2

Blog D Blog F

System

Sorting Categories ( Folders )

Multi blog enhancements

New listing screens

Supporting Webkit

Drag & Drop to sortCategories and Folders

Click to list entries

Add a new category

Rename | Add a subcategory | DeleteEdit details

Managing categories (folders)

Drag & drop categories (folders)sort_by=”user_custom”

Move to the sub levelMove to the top level

Change sort order Move to the other levels

New in 5.1

<mt:SubCategories

sort_by=”label” sort_order=”descend”>

• label• description• basename• created_on• modified_on• user_custom (default)

• ascend• descend

• mt:TopLevelCategories• mt:SubCategories• mt:TopLevelFolders• mt:SubFolders

New in 5.1

<mt:SubCategories sort_by=”label” sort_order=”descend”>

</mt:SubCategories>

<mt:CategoryNext>

<mt:CategoryPrevious>

<mt:Entries> <mt:EntryPrimaryCategory> <$mt:CategoryLabel$> </mt:EntryPrimaryCategory></mt:Entries>

New in 5.1

The New Listing Screens

Display Options in MT4.x and 5.0

Before...

Click to open the built-in filters

Click to open/close the display options

Add/remove columns

Click to sort

Edit this entry Browse the page Manage comments

Almost any data displayable with 5.1ID, number of comments, users, modified date, etc...

Before...

New in 5.1

Click column to sort the liste.g. Sort entries by number of comments

New in 5.1

Filter by almost any data

New in 5.1

Select from the pulldown

Join multiple filters

Sort

Click to open the filter pane

Join multiple filterse.g. Display entries with comments & updates within a week

Saved filters

Rename/Delete

Save as “my filter”

Select all ( from multiple pages )

Bulk actions

“Select all” from multiple pages

Website

Blog

System

Manage all contents at the system level

Faster Ajax loading

New in 5.1

New listing features are available

for Any Listing Screen.

Activity Logs, Assets, Address Book, Blogs,

Comments, Commenters, Custom Fields, Entries,

Groups (Movable Type Advanced), Group Members

(Movable Type Advanced), Members, Pages,

Permissions, Roles, Tags, TrackBacks, Users,

Websites

The Listing Frameworkfor developers

Example Adding a custom column to “Manage Entries”from a pluginʼs config.yaml

Example

jQuery API in Common Listing Screen, the event listReady will be called when the list is loaded.

You can...

• define a custom list with a pluginʼs config.yaml(display options, filters and sort are automatically available with the custom list).

• use callbacks such as;• list_template_param.object• cms_pre_load_filtered_list.object• cms_filtered_list_param.object

See details athttps://github.com/movabletype/Documentation/wiki/En-

dev-listing-framework-overview

Multi-blog enhancements

<mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”>

website

Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

MT 5.0

<mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”exclude_blogs=”2”>

website

Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

New in 5.1

<mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”exclude_blogs=”2” category=”news”>

website

Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

Sharing template modules in a website

<$mt:Include module="X" parent="1"$>

Website

Blog A Blog B Blog C

e.g. Include the same header navigation module from children blogs

New in 5.1

Better view of template structure

New in 5.1

Template editor syntax highlight On/Off

Back in 5.1

Other changes

<mt:XX trim_to=”6+...” />

You can specify "N+STRING" as an ellipsis. For example when you specify trim_to="6+...", the phrase

"Welcome to MT5.1" will be published as "Welcome...".

Customize “Edit Entry/Page” screen

Display custom fields when specific categories are selected

New in 5.0

New in 5.1

Drag & drop to change the order of input fields( including custom fields)

Display code hint for custom fields in the list

New in 5.1

Supported browsers

Internet Explorer 8

Safari latest

Firefox latest

Chrome should work fine although it is not officially supported

Please Enjoy !

The requirement phase will startfrom June 2011

Movable Type 5.2

Your feedback is always welcomed at • FogBugz : http://bugs.movabletype.org/• Forum : http://forums.movabletype.org/• ML : mtos-dev@sixapart.com

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