The Playground

A new version of MT4 has been released called beta2. I installed it last night on a new blog I called Babble On. Since MT4 is still in beta it really is just a testing blog at the moment. The latest version includes "live" preview. It shows you what the entry would look like on your blog. It's one up on Arvind's Live Preview plugin, because it's standard. So is auto-save, which I have as a plugin on this MT3.5 version. I can't wait for the full version of MT 4 to be released. Sixapart thought about 6 weeks, so it must only be 5 now. I should have a cool countdown or something. :0

Another interesting feature of MT4 is template modules. There's header, footer, sidebar, etc, etc. I'm not sure yet how these work, I tried adding a footer to the main page but it didn't show up. There'll certainly be some trial and error concerned, but movabletype.org is compiling documentation as they go with this release, so let's hope there's a how-to to go with the innovative ideas.