Textpattern

Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software. Web designers, developers, publishers and bloggers love its flexibility and extensibility. It has a powerful, sophisticated engine that can be infinitely tuned to suit whatever type of web site you can imagine.

Who is it for?
With its built-in simplicity, a blogger can start publishing in minutes. Designers and developers appreciate the ability to control all aspects of XHTML and CSS from the Admin interface, and with hundreds of plugins available, the power of Textpattern is easily extended.

How does it work?
Textpattern uses built-in tags to determine how dynamic content should be retrieved and displayed. You have complete control over the content and presentation, making the CMS both simple and elegant to use.

The admin interface is minimalist, efficient and clearly labelled. Designers can quickly produce well-structured, standards-compliant websites while authors can get on with publishing and editing content. Textile, which uses just a few markers to nudge plain text into fully-formatted web content, is built-in.
Full featured software and a friendly community

The core features are greatly extended through the use of plugins. Need a special function? Find the plugin, copy and paste it into the plugin field and activate. Simple as that!

There’s no need to know any PHP or jQuery coding to use TXP, though many web developers create plugins for all kinds of purposes. The friendly community forum will most likely make you a plugin if it hasn’t already been made. Unlike some other forums, the Textpattern developers themselves answer questions, listen to suggestions and write plugins.

Below are a host of other reasons to use Textpattern for your next web site. Download a free copy and start straight away.

Just write

Direct, easy to follow interface Quick conversion of plain text to valid XHTML with Textile Browser-based organization and upload of files and images Articles can be protected with a password Adjustable date/time stamps on articles

Design freedom
Flexible engine for all kinds of websites, from blogs to corporate sites
Unlimited site sections, page layout and styling
Browser-based template and CSS editing
Human friendly, XML-like templating tag language
Standards compliant by default

Secure and stable
Anti-spam comment system that works well
Thoroughly tested by the community before each release
Small disk and memory footprint
GPL source code
Based upon popular open source components like PHP, MySQL and jQuery

Easy to manage
Unlimited site authors can be assigned a variety of posting, editing and design privileges
Human-readable clean URLs help SEO and visitors
Unlimited article, link, file and image categories
Import content from other content management and blog systems
Up-to-the-minute visitor logs

Excellent support
Forum is renowned for its friendly, helpful community
Developers listen and solve problems
In-depth wiki documentation
Textpattern is available in over 40 languages, and growing

An extensible platform
Versatile plugin concept
Wide range of plugins provides many extra functions
Plugin installation and maintenance is simple: Copy, paste and activate
Browser-based plugin installation and maintenance
Plugins are simple to write, document and publish with the standard code template or the plugin composer

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Posted: 05.02.2012 in section Blogs CMS