今天中午午休的时候,例行查看网站后台,又习惯性地从网站后台点回movable type的网站,赫然发现“Movable Type 5 Beta”,我个人是MT的强力支持者,于是二话不说就下载过来试用。发现提供下载的版本是Movable Type 5.0 Pro Beta 1: zip | tar.gz

安装的过程跟MT4一样,都很顺利,执行mt-wizard.cgi即可,程序会自动引导你设置基本资料,配置数据库等等,从下载到安装完成总共用了不到5分钟,然后就进入了短暂的试用,试用结果主要有几个关键字:Website / CMS / Themes。

首先,MT5的内容结构有所改变,不是原先的多blog与多用户的关系,而是多了一个层级“Website”,一个用户可以拥有多个Website,一个网站可以有多个Blog。每个Website以及每个Blog都可以拥有自己的Page和Asset。

另外,在Design选单中,有一个Theme的功能,也就是说可以为各个Blog分别设定不同的Theme,Theme的作用就是模板套件,比如使用了名为Forum的Theme,则这个Blog的外观就会和MT讨论区一样,不同的Theme有不同的Widget。

新的功能与内容结构使得MT更像一个CMS了。

这是后台的管理界面首页
MT5后台管理首页

进入Website之后
MT5后台管理Website页面

我还导入了现有Blog的所有文章资料,导入了的过程也没有什么障碍。不过在使用MT5 Beta1的过程中,发现了一个小问题,添加Asset的时候,一直提示我不成功,毕竟是Beta版,等正式版的出来应该就能解决。
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看来,有时间的时候可以思考一下将来升级到MT5之后,网站的内容结构要做什么改变呢。

以下转自 http://www.movabletype.org/2009/09/mt5_beta.html

About Movable Type 5.0

For those who aren’t distracted with downloading and installing… here’s a little history:

Development of MT4.3 and 4.31 were led by the Services team in the US and was primarily focused on app performance, resolving pain points common on large installations, making some of their most popular plugins part of the core product, and a major documentation update. (MT 4.31 is the current stable build supported by Six Apart.)

About the same time that 4.3 development started in the US, our Japanese team began a 6-month major undertaking to overhaul the app interface and add many other features that have been requested worldwide. The result is such a dramatic progression which will be released as Movable Type 5.

Movable Type 5 focused on three major feature areas:

Below is a summary of each. More detailed documentation will be created as we near official release.