Textpattern Features

Direct, easy to follow interface (image of opening Write screen?)

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

Flexible engine for all kind of websites from blog to corporate website

Unlimited page layout and styling

Unlimited site sections

Browser-based template and CSS editing

Human friendly, XML-like templating tag language

Standards compliant by default

Anti-spam system that works well

Thoroughly tested

Unlimited site authors

Unlimited article, link, file and image categories

Assign a variety of posting, editing and design privileges

Up-to-the-minute visitor logs

Human-readable clean URLs help SEO and visitors

Visitors can subscribe to a tailored assortment of web feeds

Comments are accepted on a per-article basis

Comments may be closed after a fixed time or on the fly

Import content from other content management and blog systems

Small disk and memory footprint

Forum is renowned for its friendly, helpful community

Developers listen and solve problems

In-depth documentation on the wiki

Extendable platform through a 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

Free GPL license

All source code included

Based upon popular open source components like PHP, MySQL and jQuery

There are over 30 available, and growing!

I prefer to pay for my software

I’ll roll my own CMS

I want frequent upgrades

Managing my content is not important

I want my site to look like all the others

It doesn't make coffee

I'm looking for a new knitting pattern

I’m personal friends with Matt Mullenweg

I miss Dean . . .