Categories and Sections

anatman
(@anatman)

21 years, 11 months ago

After reading this thread, i downloaded Textpattern to take a look at it. Yes, it is a CMS, not blogware, but there is something that striked me as an ingenious idea: the distinction between Sections and Categories.
Quickly put, Categories is post metadata: some information agregated to a post relating to it’s content. Sections is how a post is presented, or better put in which template a particular post is presented.
Now, i wouldn’t leave WP for TXP, but i can imagine how flexible in terms of design WP would become if it adopted the idea. Imagine having two (or more) templates, with different CSS for each one, and choosing which posts would show in each one, sorting them by Categories and Subcategories.
Sushubbh wrote somewhere else that he accomplishes this by installing multiple blogs and linking them (by hardcoding i suppose). Imagine how much easier the proccess would become!

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radley25
(@radley25)

21 years, 10 months ago

Textpattern doesn’t use a proprietary tag format; it uses XML. In my opinion, XML is a lot easier to write than PHP.
My main complaint about WP is that you can’t make static pages w/o major hacking. I also like Textpattern’s plugin support.

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

21 years, 10 months ago

making static pages with wp is as simple as making simple static pages.
what kinda major hacking is required???

Thread Starter anatman
(@anatman)

21 years, 10 months ago

No major hacking at all: just make a copy of the index.php, cut The Loop off, strip everything inside the “storycontent” div, and also the h3 just inside the “post” div (or change the text in that tag with the title for your page/paragraph). Now fill the “storycontent” div with the text of your choice inside p tags.
Then link to your static page and that’s it.

guruxl
(@guruxl)

21 years, 10 months ago

It seems textpattern has almost all the features I want:
– Ability to Sectionalize Content
– Ability to Categorize Sectionalized Content
– Ability to Specify URL (i.e. http://www.domain.com/database/anime/page)
I am very compelled to use Textpattern, I will wait though for a little while because, I am sure WordPress will up the ante and add these features into their fold. If not, I will have no choice but to use TextPattern as I am already behind schedule in getting my site online.

guruxl
(@guruxl)

21 years, 9 months ago

One thing to note though is that Textpattern is still in development so, the current version is aimed at people who are used to handcoding and familiar with HTML and CSS.

gbarber
(@gbarber)

21 years, 9 months ago

Seems to me that whether you use Textpattern or WordPress… you’re still going to have to do a lot of handcoding, be familiar with HTML, CSS and PHP.

Anonymous

21 years, 9 months ago

I’m a TXP user and must say it has been quite good. Some key features I look for are missing though, though they are promised to be around soon…namely pingback. Dean is not a fan of trackback. He prefers mentions but no one knows what the hell those are or how they work. It’s not a completed module yet so we’ll have to wait on that too…

Thread Starter anatman
(@anatman)

21 years, 9 months ago

Another point is that is you have Sections, you don’t need a specific static page capability: just make another section, with it’s own template (and css if you so wish), and there you have your “About” page, for example.