Where To Get Help With MovableType?

If you're a new user of MovableType you are probably going to run into issues and have questions.

It's quite normal.

So where can you go to find information and / or seek help?

The main MovableType site has quite a lot of documentation on installing, upgrading and working with MovableType.

One of the things that I love about MovableType is that you can customise so much of it without having to worry about Perl.

A popular myth surrounding MT compared with a lot of the PHP/MySQL CMS solutions is that you have to be a Perl guru to use it.

You don't.

I wouldn't know how to write even the simplest of Perl scripts and with MT I don't need to.

The system has plenty of options open to more advanced users without having to know anything about the underlying programming language.

If you head over to the main documentation site you'll find a pretty exhaustive template tag reference section, that will show you all the available options for each template.Admittedly more examples of usage would probably make life easier for people, but the documentation is added to on a regular basis.

There are also several mailing lists with differing levels of activity, but if you're more comfortable with a forum the MT crew seem to be pushing people towards the forums more and more these days.

And don't forget #movabletype over on Freenode (IRC)

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