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#1 2008-05-26 17:39:09
- volomike
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Can Your CMS Do This?
As a PHP freelancer, my clients do not come to me and say, “Here, I’ve picked out a CMS and found a theme that works with the CMS that I want customized.” Instead, they come to me and say, “Here’s an XHTML template I’ve had drawn up. Go make it fit into some kind of way for me to publish stuff without a programmer.”
So, what I need is a mini-publishing system, and then I drop in tags inside the XHTML template like:
<cms:last-articles count=“5”>
…and off it goes in working with the CMS. I don’t want to have to design pages to fit the CMS — I want the CMS to provide me blocks that I can drop into my templates.
Can Textpattern do something fairly similar to this?
Next, my clients then want me to create a custom gadget/block/widget of my own for something, and then pull that into the CMS. Is that possible too?
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<cms:last-articles count=“5”>
<txp:article_custom limit="5"/> || <txp:article limit="5"/> || <txp:recent_articles limit="5"/>Can Textpattern do something fairly similar to this?
Yes. Check out We Love TXP for some example sites.
Next, my clients then want me to create a custom gadget/block/widget of my own for something, and then pull that into the CMS. Is that possible too?
Yes. Use <txp:php>//widget code</txp:php> or write a plugin.
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Volomike,
I chimed in just to say: try Textpattern, it’s what you are looking for, and you will love it.
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#4 2008-05-26 18:21:08
- volomike
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Re: Can Your CMS Do This?
Thanks so much for the quick post! I just might make money with my clients by doing TextPattern installs. I’m liking this. Some drawbacks I see are:
- The admin system is okay for me, but might scare my clients. I think I’ll have to leave it in place but build like an /admin2 or something that does similar things for most of the common tasks but in a more intuitive way. For instance, once my clients give me their XHTML templates and have me encode them with Textpattern codes, they pretty much won’t change those templates or page layout without contracting me again. All they want to do is interact with the sections, categories, and articles — a mini-publishing system of sorts. I can take the existing administration code and see how this is done, and then build my own admin system just for them. It’s a bit of work, but still possible.
- I’ve run the Textile language by two of my clients. They’re not happy with it mostly in the case of coloring text, changing font sizes, creating bullets, adding images, and center-justifying text, but for most of their other needs, it seemed agreeable. They don’t like WYSIWYG editors because they have quirks. They seem to like BBCode editors and are used to those by now. So, I’ll have to use a BBCode editor in my version of the admin system and then convert to/from textile on the fly (limited conversion, but handle most of the common bases).
If that triggers any suggestions from you or anyone else, please let me know. Thanks.
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1. New admin-side – plugin aro_myadmin
2. hak_tinymce – plugin of TinyMce editor
Providing help in hacking ATM! Come to courses and don’t forget to bring us notebook and hammer! What for notebook? What a kind of hacker you are without notebok?
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You can customize which tabs are shown to a user, by giving a user a different privilege level and by editing the /textpattern/lib/admin_config.php file
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#7 2008-05-26 20:30:02
- volomike
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Re: Can Your CMS Do This?
the_ghost, ruud: more guys making my day. What is it with this place? :) This is all tremendous news. I’m glad I stopped by here.
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