Movable Type

This article is about the weblog software. For movable type printing technology, see Movable type.
Movable Type
Original author(s)Ben Trott
Developer(s)Six Apart
Initial releaseOctober 8, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-10-08)
Stable release(s)
Series 77.9.9 / June 14, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-06-14)[1]
Series 6 (LTS)6.7.9 / April 15, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-04-15)[1]
Repository
PlatformPerl, PHP (for dynamic publishing)
Available in7 languages
List of languages
Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
TypeBlog publishing system
LicenseProprietary software[2]
Websitemovabletype.org Edit this on Wikidata

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001;[3] version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001.[4] The current version is 8.0.[5]

Movable Type is proprietary software. From June 2007 to July 2013, Six Apart ran the Movable Type Open Source Project, which offered a version of Movable Type under the GPL.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Releases · movabletype/movabletype". github.com. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ "Movable Type: Licensing Info". Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  3. ^ Trott, Ben; Trott, Mena (September 3, 2001). "Welcome". Six Apart. Archived from the original on October 26, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  4. ^ Trott, Mena (October 8, 2001). "Please Read Before Downloading". Six Apart. Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  5. ^ Hirata, Daiji (Nov 1, 2023). "Movable Type 8 released". Six Apart.
  6. ^ Minton, Robert (July 11, 2013). "Clarifying Changes to Movable Type Starting With MT6". Retrieved November 11, 2013.