Moving to Textpattern | Comments (5)
Posted in Muffin Research Labs on 16th December 2005, 1:07 am by Stuart
Things have been hotting up around here, I’m steadily seeing about 500+ uniques per day which is great news. Google analytics has settled down and is doing a great job keeping me informed of which sites are sending traffic my way.
As I have quite a lot on at the moment with various projects and continuing to maintain ‘the Lab’, I have decided to move from my custom made CMS (Joornal) to Textpattern. After reading Jon Hicks’ post on some of Textpattern’s templating features I was inspired to check Textpattern out and install in on the server. Having taken a look I’m pretty sure that it will meet my needs and the time I would have spent continuing to develop Joornal can now be devoted to other more exciting projects.
Glad to hear you’re taking a look at Textpattern. There’s a free version of Expression Engine (pmachine.com) now too.
@Nathan: Thanks for the suggestion, I will check out Expression Engine before I start to write the script to convert my db structure to the new one.
Why did you chose Txp over WordPress or other systems? What I don’t like much about Txp is that you’ve got to learn yet another templating language -tags- whereas with, say, WordPress you can use plain PHP in your templates. From a developer perspective, last Txp version I checked was a pretty awful spaghetti code and I feared it could get difficult to extend (WordPress isn’t much better in this point, either).
@Ismael:Fair comments. For me the xml template method used doesn’t strike me as too alien. I will be honest, as yet I haven’t actually looked at the code but now you mentioned it I will take a peek.
If you aren’t too keen on Textpattern or WordPress what’s your recommendation?
Textpattern is a great blog software, but wordpress is more popular.