Movable Type

Overview
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Movable Type
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Movable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Features
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Security
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Movable Type
5.0
Ratings
47% below category average
Role-based user permissions5.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Movable Type
6.0
Ratings
23% below category average
API6.00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
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Movable Type
6.4
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19% below category average
WYSIWYG editor9.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness6.00 Ratings
Admin section8.00 Ratings
Page templates5.00 Ratings
Library of website themes3.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.00 Ratings
Form generator3.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
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Movable Type
5.6
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27% below category average
Content taxonomy9.00 Ratings
SEO support6.00 Ratings
Bulk management3.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions3.00 Ratings
Community / comment management7.00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
5.4
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
For the purpose of simple, day-to-day blogging, Movable Type will get the job done. As I mentioned before, it has an intuitive UI so that most beginners can pick it up and build a simple blog post. But if you're looking for a CMS that will host multimedia content, interactive content, or any "fancy" production that goes beyond paragraphs and bullet points, then I would recommend something different - maybe even a custom CMS for the maximum control over your website's back-end coding. Keep in mind that the CMS does have some quirks and can be finicky, but the support staff is extremely helpful and available.
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Pros
  • Once you understood how the MT language and framework worked, customization wasn't too difficult.
  • Allowed for levels of user access.
  • Ease of creating RSS feeds.
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Cons
  • While it's beneficial to be able to assign administrative rights to a user so they can only post to certain places of a website, I can recall that Movable Type did not inform general users of the types of privileges they had. So, for example, when I knew I needed to make a posting to a certain area, and was unable to do so, I was not informed that I did not have access to make that posting. It would have been helpful for Movable Type to post a message on the screen, saying that I needed more permissions. This was very frustrating, especially when I was on deadline for a newspaper story.
  • Unfortunately, (or fortunately), I do not recall other negative experiences. I thought it was a pretty clean, friendly interface.
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Likelihood to Renew
I think there are still improvements to be made. I haven't tapped in to the full functionality of the CMS yet but the rating I give it now is only based on what I've been able to use it for
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Alternatives Considered
Movable Type is better than Wordpress because it generates static sites that cannot be broken by losing your database connection. The custom fields in MT are superior to Wordpress because of the way the fields are presented in the new content form. You need to get paid plugins in order to get that kind of functionality in Wordpress. Most of the templates in MT can be customized with greater control because you're provided with more templates.
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Return on Investment
  • Movable Type definitely increased employee efficiency. Having everyone on the same platform to edit multiple websites from system is crucial.
  • Expanding our website presence was a super simple process with Movable Type. All we needed to do was add another site, destination folder, and we're ready to go.
  • Having all of our web designers on the same platform helped immensely with communicating information and structuring education for new employees.
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