Movable Type

Movable Type ( Eng.: " Moving Letter" ) is a widely used free ( under GPL) weblog publishing system, which is developed by the Californian company Six Apart. The original name was " Serge ", according to the musician Serge Gainsbourg.

Six Apart has two other weblog publishing systems, namely, TypePad and Vox. While Movable Type must be installed on your own web server the user is in TypePad to a hosted service. Vox, also a hosted service, TypePad juxtaposes the community aspect to the fore.

The current version of Movable Type version 6

Functions

One of his most well-known functions Trackback, which was introduced in version 2.2 and has since been implemented in many other blog systems. Movable Type supports many weblogging features such as user accounts, comments, post categories and themes. Many plugins other manufacturers offer more functionality.

Licensing

Version 3.0 introduced a new licensing model: As a private person could use the software free of charge, others were given special license models for companies, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Prior to version 3.0, the software had everyone can use freely in its entirety; Version 3.0 limited the number of authors and weblogs depending on the license purchased.

After many users expressed their displeasure over this licensing model by switching to other platforms such as WordPress expressed Six Apart took with version 3.2 the changes back again.

Version 4.0 was made in December 2007 under the GPL.

On 23 June 2009, the development of Forks Melody was announced by developers from the Movable Type community.

With the release of version 6 to the end of 2013, Movable Type was once again under a commercial license, the software can be purchased in different versions.

Technology

Movable Type is written in Perl and supports the deposition of the blog content and the associated data in MySQL, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL and SQLite. The system supports static page generation, to be updated in the files for each page when the content changes, dynamic page generation, in which the sides are assembled from the underlying database when the browser requests them, and the combination thereof.