I’ve been using Movable Type for about two years, and while part of me is starting to think WordPress is really the way to go, part of me is still building sites in Movable Type and coming up with solutions.

What follows is a list of Movable Type plugins I find useful in my daily building of blogs.

Enjoy, and if I am missing anything, please let me know. I would like this post to grow over time.

Enhanced Entry Editing - For some reason, Six Apart thinks the average user likes looking at HTML markup. Unfortunately, some clients I have built blogs for think other wise. This plugin has saved me on a few occasions. It adds a WYSIWYG toolbar called tinyMCE into the editing entry window of Movable Type. Very nice.

Ease of Install - Medium
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Filter Categories - When building a blog, I often use the category system to help add content to a certain spot such as news versus blog. Using categories helps me filter out entries. However, I also like to list out the categories of blog entries. Filter Categories allows you to exclude certain categories from a list. In doing so, it allows you to go crazy with category customizations.

Ease of Install - Easy
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Live Preview - This plugin is great. When a person clicks on the normal preview within Movable Type, it turns into a big let down. The normal preview looks nothing like what the text will look like on the web. Enter Live Preview - mixing some Ajax type effects and a pages default archive template, it shows you exactly what it will look like on the page of your site.

Ease of Install - Medium
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Exclude Categories - This plugin is great for filtering posts out of a list of MTEntries. I am using it in a situation where I don’t want the posts with videos to pull through the site RSS feed. Any entry I tag with video stays out of the MTEntries Loop. Good stuff and easy to use.

Ease of Install - Easy
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