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Byrne has posted a useful guide to help people extend their MovableType powered site via plugins ie. how to actually install plugins step by step.

Jay Allen from Endevver Consulting has created a very handy custom search that allows you to search ALL of the Movable Type official sites including the wiki.

Bookmark it!

Beau Smith has released Vanilla, which is a set of mini-templates to show functionality available to MT users / developers / designers.

One of the common problems when you look at some of the more advanced MovableType powered sites is working out how the creators were able to do certain things.

With Vanilla you can see how certain things work without having to bury yourself in a mountain of documentation.

Nice idea!

You'll find plenty of other Movable Type plugins over on the plugin directory

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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Byrne has posted a nice little tutorial on creating dropdown navigation for MovableType.

I don't think I'll be implementing it as yet, as I really prefer to let designers design. My own attempts at design usually end in disaster!

The guys over at SixApart have done up some documentation on theme creation for designers / developers.

While it may not answer every possible question it is a good starting point.

If you feel you can improve on it etc., don't forget there is a wiki as well

Byrne has revamped the Movable Type community aggregator and relaunched it as Planet Movable Type

At present it's pulling in content from over a dozen feeds that cover various aspects of MT development, design and usage.

It's a handy resource

Some of the people in the MT community come up with some really fantastic ideas.

Aaron Bailey has just launched a new project to showcase "beautiful and interesting sites powered by MT"- Movable Love

Byrne has made MovableType.org a little bit more interesting this evening by adding feeds from MovableType related sites (including this one!).

Very nice addition!