Movable Type

Movable Type is a blog engine with an interesting history. It is currently open source, but prior to version 4, it was proprietary software that required a license for use.

Technical Details

It is written in Perl and can use a variety of database back-ends, including MySQL.

Formatting

MovableType has a very nice WYSIWYG editor, but it also supports Markdown and Textile formatting syntaxes.

Publishing

Movable Type has four different ways to publish blog entries and website pages:

  • Static
  • Publish queue
  • Dynamic
  • Manual
  • Do not publish

Plugins

MovableType supports a wide variety of plugins, though perhaps not as many as Wordpress.

Pages