Comments on: Moving to Textpattern

By: 3DSL Eugen

3DSL Eugen — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:45:00 +0000

Textpattern is a great blog software, but wordpress is more popular.

By: Nathan Pitman

Nathan Pitman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Glad to hear you’re taking a look at Textpattern. There’s a free version of Expression Engine (pmachine.com) now too.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@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.

By: Ismael

Ismael — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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).

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@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?