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# Mixing Blogs & Social Networks with Movable Type
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/08/mixing_blogs_social_networks_w/
- Published: 2008-08-15T18:02:47.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:16:29.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogs, community, movable type, six apart, Social Media, social networks

However, it feels like there’s still a significant amount of work for  
the team to do to make implementing this stuff easier. I’ve had an  
initial poke at adding the community stuff to this blog, using [the instructions here](http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/taking-advantage-of-community-features.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com),  
and it’s non trivial. For a start, the profile page is a central  
template, meaning the same template is used for all blogs in the MT  
install – that’s going to be quite a design challenge, as we’ll have  
over 100 blogs using that template. And, in its default form, it relies  
on the default stylesheets to look good. Here’s how it looks on my blog  
right now:

![Thumbnail image for CP Profile](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/08/CP-Profile-thumb-500x274.png?resize=500%2C274)  
I can either redesign the template to make it work well with my  
stylesheet, or I can redesign it so it isn’t dependent on the blog  
style and use the default one. Neither of them are simple tasks and are  
reasons that the hype will outpace the average blogger’s ability to  
integrate this stuff simply. A lot more work on the documentation would  
help – or an alternative deafult profile template that adapts a lot  
more easily to various different stylesheets.

Still, that doesn’t mean I’m going to avoid doing it. We’ll definatly  
be making use of this new functionality on our most active blogs in the  
months to come. It’s just a pity it’s not easier to use out of the box.

That said, now that the Community Pack is a core part of the non-Open Source version of MT, I’d expect to see significant improvements in its integration in future versions. In particualr, I’d love to see the [Action Streams](http://plugins.movabletype.org/action-streams/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) plugin intelligently implemented, so you could start following commenters and authors to their activity elsewhere. Let’s see where Six Apart take it from here.