An elegant content management system that is free and open source software. Web designers, developers and bloggers love its flexibility and extensibility, as can be seen by the examples in the sidebar. A powerful, sophisticated engine that can be infinitely tuned, Textpattern is installed or updated in minutes!
Textpattern is made for designers, developers and bloggers. With its “out-of-the-box” 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.
Textpattern uses in-built tags to determine how content should be retrieved and displayed. Users have complete control over their content and presentation, making Textpattern the simplest and most elegant CMS to use.
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 but many web developers do and so 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.
The admin interface is minimalist, efficient and clearly labelled. Designers can quickly produce well-structured, standards-compliant websites while users 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.
A new system can be hard to learn but everyone says Textpattern soon becomes intuitive. Some documentation you might want to read:
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