What are some of the features of Movable Type?

Among the expected features of a weblogging content management system (hosted locally on your server, template driven, highly-configurable, permalinks...), the first release of MOVABLE TYPE will have incorporated these added features.

• Extensible, library-driven code.
• Multiple output templates to enable one-click publishing to multiple destinations.
• Entry categorization and grouping.
• Built-in support for RSS syndication.
• Custom variable and template inclusion, for encapsulation of commonly used HTML.
• Support for multiple weblogs/journals.
• Multiple archiving options: daily/weekly/monthly/categorical, or each entry on its own individual page.
• Comment system, either inline or in popup windows; ability to exclude commenting on certain posts.
• Notification on new entries: maintain lists of users to whom notification messages can be sent when you post a new or specific entry.
• Date stamp override allows you to pre-date or post-date your entries.

Plus these currently-in-development features planned for subsequent versions:

• Popup image/file upload interface
  
• Activity Log
  
• XML-RPC and/or SOAP interface
  
• Blog cloning
  
• Automatic backups
  
• FTP files to remote host
  

Stay tuned for more information.