What Does Textpattern Have That Other cmss Don’t?

To put it simply – it was built as a true cms for small-to-mid size sites, not only as a blog engine or a overly-complex cms that can do everything you can imagine. It doesn’t enforce you to structure your content in one rigid way, but rather gives you the freedom to build your site the way you would have built it if it was a static site. Textpattern alone is enough to get you started, and in some cases even get you through all the way, but there are so many useful plugins created by the community that it is really hard to disregard them.

Templating In Textpattern

It’s ridiculously simple, seriously. You don’t need to know how to write a single line of php, you don’t even need to know it’s syntax – because Textpattern does all that for you. In place of writing raw php (Wordpress anyone?) or some weird and obscure markup – Textpattern’s templating language simply uses html‘s syntax. To illustrate – can you guess what would this piece of txp code do: <txp:comments wraptag="ul" break="li" wrapclass="commentsList" breakclass="comment" />. We’ll just leave you scratching your head on that one. ;)

The real gem of Textpattern – Textile

Us being designers and all, we can’t oversee Textile – it is a beautiful piece of server side code (the thing you don’t see but does the real magic) that ensures your content is most typographically correctly formated when it rolls out live on your site. It does this all by some nifty textual commands which allows even for some complex html elements creation and manipulation.

So to break it down, here is a list of all the advantages of Textpattern over other cmss on the market out there:

• it is free and open-source making it very affordable and popular with sites with tight budget
• extremely flexible
• has Textile so your clients can format their content with ease
• it produces very search engine friendly uris (internet addresses), although it is configurable so you have several schemas to choose from – including the “messy” scheme for servers that don’t support uri rewriting
• abundance of plugins to extend the native functionality
• active community support

Considering these key advantages of Textpattern it is obvious why it as probably best choice for our clients’ future Web site.

* Superawesome is by no ways affiliated with Textpattern, we just love the cms