Using MovableType

Six Apart are wondering just what the hell people have been doing with MovableType in an effort to help streamline their licensing.

The definition of exactly what constitutes a weblog is actually more confusing since Six Apart clarified it.

Currently MT is used for two sections of the site in separate directories using two weblogs. Whether this counts as one or two weblogs under the new definition is anyone’s guess. There are currently three active users, with vague plans to add more.

If MT3 has features that are suitable, more sections of the site will be integrated into MovableType which will be another five weblogs, give or take, which moves the site beyond the base licence. Maybe. Depending on semantics. And features of course. It’s all a bit confusing at the moment.

Still, I’d like to know exactly what shiny things are planned to be integrated into the general release.

MT-Blacklist, which I can’t live without, is in Jay Allen’s capable hands. He started a wishlist for the new version today.

Most of the plugins used are neat little tools that format things the way I want. However, two of the things I’ve been holding off installing are sub-categories (installed David Rayner’s plugin, it crashed and burned in spectacular fashion) and threaded comments (luscious install of Alexei Kosut’s plugin on Phil Ringnalda‘s site).

It has been hinted that these two things could be in the new version, rather than as separate plugins, but I’ve been holding off to avoid the nightmare of porting major wackiness between versions or dealing with changes from a plugin version to an integrated version. So it would nice to have an idea of when the general release is due and what additional features are planned.