Movable Type
Commercial publishing and blogging system from Six Apart that publishes static pages, dynamic pages or both from templates.
www.movabletype.org/docspricingplugins
Movable Type is a publishing and blogging system from Six Apart, with its core written in Perl. Content is kept in a database, and templates written in the Movable Type markup language turn it into pages. A site can publish static files, generate pages on request in dynamic mode (which uses PHP, optional otherwise), or use both, and one installation can run several websites and blogs. It is installed by uploading the program files to a web server over FTP or SSH and running a configuration wizard in the browser, or from an Amazon Machine Image on AWS Marketplace.
Worth knowing
Use is under a Movable Type license, and the product life cycle page says license holders may use version 9 under the same terms. The Advanced edition adds Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server and LDAP sign-in. The Cloud Service is offered to Japanese customers only. The installation guide names Movable Type Pro and Movable Type Open Source as the two versions to download; the open source line is recorded as a separate record.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request, Always on, Scheduled357
- Rendering
- Static output, On a server3
- Install with
- upload files over FTP, then run the configuration wizard in the browser56
Releases
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links
www.movabletype.org/ - 2026-10-26: links
www.movabletype.org/documentation/ - 2026-10-26: Maintainer, Written in, Runtime, Runs as, Rendering, Content storage, Admin interface, Templating, Multilingual
www.movabletype.org/about/features/ - 2026-10-26: Headquarters, First release, Categories
www.movabletype.org/about/ - 2026-10-26: Install with, Runs as
www.movabletype.org/documentation/installation/ - 2026-10-26: Install with
movabletype.jp/documentation/mt9/start-guide/about-movable-type/about-movable-type-ami/ - 2026-10-26: Runs as, Databases, Minimum runtime
movabletype.jp/documentation/mt9/start-guide/about-movable-type/system-requirements/ - 2026-10-26: Content API
www.movabletype.org/documentation/developer/api/data-api/ - 2026-10-26: License, License model
www.movabletype.org/product-life-cycle-policy.html - 2026-10-26: License, links
www.movabletype.com/ - 2026-10-26: Current major version, Last release
www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/9.3.0.html