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Textpattern 4.4.1

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2376 votes cast

Category: Blogs
Stable Release: 4.4.1
Started In: 2004
Updated: July 6 2011
Native Language: English
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Textpattern Description

Textpattern is an open source content management system unlike any other; it allows you to easily create, edit and publish content and make it beautiful in a professional, standards-compliant manner.

Is it for me?

Yes, if you appreciate wonderful web experiences, Textpattern is for you. Whether you create the experience yourself — with the extensive control Textpattern gives you over markup and styles — or have a designer help you, the end result will be the same: happily publishing content in a straight-forward, intuitive way, and with the satisfaction of knowing your system is sound and secure.

So it’s stable and secure, then?

Absolutely. The development team and community thoroughly test each release before it is made public. Be assured the software is robust, reliable, and mature.

Is it extensible?

Very much so. On its own, Textpattern is a well-hued and reliable machine, but the sky’s the limit. A multitude of plugins are available from our talented community that permit you to shape Textpattern to whatever need you have. Find the plugin you need, paste it into the admin area and activate it. Simple as that! No PHP or other programming knowledge required.

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Textpattern Comments

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Katherine
May 12 2012, 11:31 pm

Help! Our website was created using text pattern but the designer has moved on. The site needs to be changed monthly and we're looking for someone who has used Text Pattern extensively and might be interested in working as needed, on a contract basis.

Please contact Katherine 415-706-2762

Suraj
May 8 2012, 11:59 am

WOW this is great !!

Hmmm
Mar 29 2012, 6:28 am

Will this be available for anyone to post content?

Daniel Leavey
Mar 28 2012, 10:25 pm

Using the Demo Main Page, I changed the title and added a pithy slogan, clicked save, and saw no changes to the page.

Luanne
Mar 3 2012, 9:40 am

Love this~

tommys
Nov 5 2011, 3:44 pm

Very much so. On its own, Textpattern is a well-hued and reliable machine, but the sky’s the limit. A multitude of plugins are available from our talented community that permit you to shape Textpattern to whatever need you have. Find the plugin you need, paste it into the admin

plugin
Nov 2 2011, 1:08 pm

arkandos
May 11 2011, 1:11 pm

@Snip:

Just see "The txp:article":textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=article reference. Especially the sort parameter. You can use any field of the article table(in your db called "textpattern") to sort in any order or combination. E.g. to sort alphabetically, add @sort="Title Asc"@ to your article tag.

In a plain Textpattern installation all articles are top-level ones (assigned to a section an categories). To create more complex multi-page articles you can use the "Multidoc":ipsedixit.net/txp/24/multidoc plugin. The documentation is also the demo.

Snip
Apr 23 2011, 10:34 am

Is textpattern able to do a conventional hierarchical menu? It appears to be limited out of the box to a 'blog' method (newest additions at the top) with no apparent way of controlling what the menu looks like... makes it pretty useless for a standard website project, doesn't it?

Matt
Jan 10 2011, 8:38 am

Textpattern combines advanced functions with simplicity in a unparalleled way.

All you need is the tag reference in the Textpattern manual (known as the Textbook) and your good to go!

Highly recommended!

Zab
Dec 13 2010, 8:43 pm

I'm a designer and Textpattern just let's me do exactly what I visualised without compromising on the functionality. Did you find a custom jQuery slider that you want to implement into the website? No, problem! You got it! It takes a while to get used to the tags and understand them but once you get it you don't want to get back into the WordPress custom query loop again. The more I understand WP, the more I appreciate working with Textpattern.

Marc
Dec 11 2010, 4:52 pm

I've used over 30 different CMS packages now, and Textpattern has become my favorite for small- to medium-size websites.

I used to use larger CMSes like Joomla and Wordpress for small/medium sites, but that became a huge hassle. Textpattern is very light and elegant, and this directly translates to less time spent developing websites. It really is much faster to work with than WP and so on, once you learn the tags system.

If you are just a casual user and don't care about control or don't know much about custom HTML/CSS design work, you might find Wordpress lets you set up a "normal" site faster. But be prepared to learn PHP and maintain tons of code if you want to customize.

Learning Textpattern's tag system is much easier than PHP, it's just that the learning curve is right there at the start.

Anyway: Highly recommended CMS -- it is used by some very impressive designers, too, like Jon Hicks. Pick up the book if you want to learn it.

David Blangstrup
Oct 24 2010, 12:31 pm

I have tried a lot of CMS blogs, and I've crossed TXP several times. I kept returning, and now I use it. It took me a while to find out how to post a picture, lol, but it is SO easy, just write the id of the pic in a box in the 'write' areaâ?? and there is even a plugin that does it for you!
So, TXP is HOT!

Robert Jason Cross
Oct 17 2010, 12:42 pm

The most flexible CMS out there. For any small to midsize site Textpattern can not be beat. It is lightweight and really fun to work with.

I have added ModX to my toolbox and it pairs well with Textpattern...somewhat overkill for small to mid size sites where Textpattern just rocks. If you can't get used to txp: tags then I doubt there is a CMS that will be user friendly enough for you.

The best thing about Textpattern is its utter flexibility in how you can incorporate a cms into any frontend design...no silly forced templates like Drupal and other bloated beasts.

If you are a frontend designer with backend needs but not on an enterprise scale...Textpattern is your tool.

james
Oct 12 2010, 4:13 am

Horrible how can you use this when there's wordpress joomla drupal and so on....you guys look way outdated!