Once upon a time, Six Apart’s Movable Type was the premiere blogging platform. That era ended when they changed their licensing. After that many people, including me, migrated to WordPress.

Now the word is out that Six Apart is about to release Movable Type 4 – and it will be open source. This is great news.

It’s funny, but just a few days ago I’d been pining for Movable Type, wondering if I should cough up whatever it cost to use it. The one thing it has that WordPress doesn’t is the ability to publish any number of blogs with one just installation. For my personal blog, i.e. this one, that’s not much of an issue. WordPress is fabulous.

However, for a church, it’s a different story. And now it’s in the air. My church is gearing up to do multiple official blogs for things like Children’s Religious Education. That’s why a few days ago I started pining for Movable Type.

Now that it’s returning as open-source, I will be able to put Movable Type within our already well-established domain, and then issue as many blogs as people in the church need.

If all goes according to plan, I will keep you apprised of how well our blogging church does, what works, what doesn’t, etc. Meanwhile, here are a couple of other posts with more detailed coverage of this news.