25+ Recommended Tools For Movable Type

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Wordpress gets all the love, but the other popular blogging platform, Movable Type, offers a wealth of extensions and add-ons. Here we round up more than 25 of our favorites.

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Formatting

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Format List - Allows you to easily create unordered or numbered lists. 3.3 or higher.

Icon-o-matic - With this plugin you (and your commenters) to insert any image into an entry. 3.2, 3.3.

Smilies - Add 13 emoticons with a single click to your entry. 3.2, 3.3.

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Markup

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Builderoo - Text formatting system with plugin and macro support. 3.2 or higher.

Markdown - Simple text-to-HTML converter. 2.6, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.

MT-Quicktags - If you dislike using WYSIWYG editors but like a few formatting buttons, MT-Quicktags is for you. 3.3 or higher.

QrONE - Combines the Wiki markup language and AJAX for an awesome plugin. 3.2, 3.3.

QuickCode - Plugin allows you to use BBCode-style formatting for posts and comments.

SmartyPants - Converts plain quotations, ellipses, and dashes to more typographic friendly HTML entities.

Webiki - Wiki style linking for Movable Type. 3.2, 3.3.

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Editing

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Better Entry Preview - Makes the preview function a whole lot more useful. 3.2, 3.3.

InlineEditor - Allows for inline editing of posts and comments. 3.2 or higher.

LivePreview - Preview your post in your blog template, instead of by itself. 3.2, 3.3.

MT Protect - Password protection, Typekey authentication, and OpenID authentication are all built into this powerful plugin. 3.2, 3.3.

Cross-posting

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CrossPoster - Simultaneously post to different blogs (using MT, Vox, LiveJournal, and Atom). 4.0.

LJPost - Publish to your LiveJournal blog when editing or posting to Movable Type. 2.6, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

MT-MotionBased - Imports your MotionBased.com information. 4.0.

MT-Twitter - Import your Twitter feed into Movable Type. 4.0.

MT-YouTube - Imports your YouTube videos into your blog. 4.0.

PostVox - Crosspost between Movable Type and Vox-based blogs. 4.0.

ReFeed - Pull in any number of Atom or RSS feeds into one blog.

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Misc.

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Ajax Rating - Allow users to rate your entries AJAX style. 1.0, 1.5, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0.

TagSupplementals - Adds new features to MovableType's tags. 3.2, 3.3, 4.0

Tagwire - Discover an easier way to handle tags with this plugin. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.

TidyText - Uses HTML Tidy to make your XHTML valid. 2.6, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Validate - Checks to see if your post is valid HTML. 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3