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August 21, 2004

MT 3.1

Note: this is a post recovered from my old blog, before it died of an insufficient backup. Any comments/trackbacks on it have not been brought over, but can be seen with the original. The date is that of the original posting.

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Version 3.1 of Movable Type will be released shortly. Unlike 3.0, which was not a new-feature release, 3.1 will have a raft of new features. Of those announced in the linked post, the ones that most interest me are a per-template option of whether publishing should be static or dynamic, post scheduling, and the notifier plug-in (which may be available separately for earlier versions of MT - I haven't checked). Considering the pricing and terms, this may be a worthwhile upgrade.

In terms of my wishlist, features that won't be implemented - or at least haven't been talked about yet, include:

• better anti-spam capabilities, such as the ability to delete a comment and block by IP at the same time, and the ability to ban comments based on keywords, poster email addresses and the like
  
• a better interface - particularly for managing comments and trackbacks without having to go into individual posts (assuming they've dropped off the last five)
  
• some kind of statistical reporting (such as how many comments have been posted by a given user and how many times a given post has been shown, which would make "most popular post" lists easy)
  
• blogrolling tools, including the ability to keep track of recently-updated blogs
  
• a "who links to me" feature, using the integration with Google and possibly integrating with Technorati and/or the ecosystem as well