New features in Movable Type 5.1 and the future plan.

1. Introducing Movable Type 5.1 5.1
24th May, 2011

2. MT5.1 was released on
24th May

3. The Goal

4. A successful website has
Thousands of entries
and comments
Hundreds of users
and categories
Dozens of blogs

5. You need a solution to
Scale up your website
withless effort and
with minimum resources

6. what’s new ?

7. New listing screens
Sorting Categories ( Folders )
Multi blog enhancements
Supporting Webkit

8. Drag & Drop to sort
Categories and Folders

9. Add a new category
Rename | Add a subcategory | Delete
Edit details
Click to list entries
Managing categories (folders)

10. New in 5.1
Move to Move to the sub level
the top level
Change
sort order Move to the other levels
Drag & drop categories (folders)
sort_by=”user_custom”

11. • label
• mt:TopLevelCategories • description
• mt:SubCategories • basename
• mt:TopLevelFolders • created_on
• mt:SubFolders • modified_on
• user_custom (default)
<mt:SubCategories
sort_by=”label”
sort_order=”descend”>
• ascend
• descend
New in 5.1

12. <mt:SubCategories sort_by=”label”
sort_order=”descend”>
<mt:CategoryNext>
<mt:CategoryPrevious>
</mt:SubCategories>

13. New in 5.1
<mt:Entries>
<mt:EntryPrimaryCategory>
<$mt:CategoryLabel$>
</mt:EntryPrimaryCategory>
</mt:Entries>

14. The New Listing Screens

15. Before...
Display Options in MT4.x and 5.0

16. Click to open/close the display options
Add/remove columns
Click to sort
Click to open
the built-in filters
Edit this entry Browse the page Manage comments
Almost any data displayable with 5.1
ID, number of comments, users, modified date, etc...

17. New in 5.1
Before...

18. New in 5.1
Click column to sort the list
e.g. Sort entries by number of comments

19. New in 5.1
Filter by almost any data

20. Click to open the filter pane
Select from the pulldown
Join multiple filters
Sort
Join multiple filters
e.g. Display entries with comments & updates within a week

21. Saved filters
Rename/Delete
Save as “my filter”

22. Bulk actions
Select all ( from multiple pages )
“Select all” from multiple pages

23. System
Website
Blog
Manage all contents
at the system level

24. New in 5.1
Faster Ajax loading

25. 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

26. The Listing Framework
for developers

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

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

29. 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 at
https://github.com/movabletype/Documentation/wiki/En-
dev-listing-framework-overview

30. Multi-blog enhancements

31. <mt:Entries
include_blogs=”children”>
MT 5.0
website
Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

32. <mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”
exclude_blogs=”2”>
New in 5.1
website
Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

33. <mt:Entries include_blogs=”children”
exclude_blogs=”2” category=”news”>
website
Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3

34. Sharing template modules in a website
New in 5.1
<$mt:Include module="X" parent="1"$>
e.g. Include the same header navigation module from children blogs

35. New in 5.1
Better view of template structure

36. Back in 5.1
Template editor syntax highlight On/Off

37. Other changes

38. <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...".

39. Customize “Edit Entry/Page” screen

40. New in 5.0
Display custom fields when
specific categories are selected

41. New in 5.1
Drag & drop to change the order of input fields
( including custom fields)

42. New in 5.1
Display code hint for custom fields in the list

43. Supported browsers
Internet Explorer 8
Safari latest
Firefox latest
Chrome should work fine although
it is not officially supported

44. Please Enjoy !

45. Movable Type 5.2
The requirement phase will start
from June 2011
Your feedback is always welcomed at
• FogBugz : http://bugs.movabletype.org/
• Forum : http://forums.movabletype.org/
• ML : mtos-dev@sixapart.com

46. End