Recommended Plugins for Movable Type
Cache Block is a plugin that can dramatically speed up publishing by caching blocks of built template code. Cache Block is very flexible, enabling you to cache an entire page, a small template snippet, a template module, a sidebar widget,...
This plugin utilizes Movable Type 4.1's ability to swap out the default Movable Type Rich Text Editor for a third party one. This plugin makes available the FCKeditor as a rich text editor to choose from inside the application. One...
Temper (TEMPlate profilER) for Movable Type measures and logs system page building performance information for benchmark and diagnostic purposes. This plugin was designed to aid in pro-actively detecting and identify performance bottlenecks in a Movable Type system’s publishing. Temper does...
Keeping users participating in a thread about comments being made by other readers is crucial to the success of a community. People with an opinion should be brought back time and time again to continue in sharing their ideas with others. Comment Subscribe helps your audience stay more engaged with one another, by notifying them via email when follow up comments are posted to entries they themselves leave comments on. Emails are received as users opt-in to receive them, and all emails allow users to easily unsubscribe from future emails.
Movable Type 4.0 introduces a whole new dashboard with the focal point being tracking the activity across your blogs. For my personal MT install, however, this isn't terribly useful (being the only author, I know my - albeit dismal -...
Template Shelf is a plugin that every serious designer and site administrator should have. This plugin makes navigating between and editing your site's templates a breeze by installing a simple plugin that sits in your template editing screens sidebar. This widget contains a list of all the templates currently installed in your system and allows you to access them quickly and easily.
This plugins adds a "Bookmarks" menu to Movable Type 4.0's menuing system. In this menu you can place links to all of your favorite and most frequently accessed pages within the application....
Do you schedule entries, or otherwise modify the Entry Date field? Do you sometimes forget a leading zero, for example, to create a valid, two-digit hour field? Hot Date is just what you need: drop-down time selectors in 12-hour format...
Comments posted to a Movable Type weblog are displayed in a flat-form (i.e. one after another). As a result, tracking multiple conversations can quickly become extremely difficult to and commenters often have to resort to crude means of replying to...
CustomFields, the aptly named plugin, brings custom fields to Movable Type's entries, authors and categories offering the ability to create text fields, multi-line textareas, drop down menus, radio buttons, url and date/time fields (complete with a pop up calendar). These...
This plugin allows you to manage a list of books, CDs, DVDs, or other media in a list, search Amazon for new items to add to your reading list, and publish the list on your blog....
Pagination
by Mark Carey
Pagination is plugin that enables you to paginate lists of entries. For example, at the bottom of your home page, you could add a "Next" link so your readers can go to "Page 2" and read previous entries. You can...