So You Want To Write A Movable Type Plugin?

One of the great things about Movable Type is it's flexibility. Behind the scenes is a powerful system that can be used to expand the functionality offered, plugins. Six Apart have run some training courses on Hacking Movable Type, the presentations for this two day course have now been put up on slide share and are a useful resource for those wishing to understand the how to write a Movable Type plugin. I will be using these as part of a series of posts on creating some simple plugins, these will provide a friendly front end to features that can otherwise achieved through template code.