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Textpattern to Statamic tool
I’ve run my blog on Textpattern since 2007 and with time we have sadly grown apart.
It will always be my first (CMS) love but lately I have been feeling the need to try something else.
Having done a lot of work with ExpressionEngine in the last few years I was interested in the Statamic, file-based CMS (supports Textile, yay!) but was struggling with a way/tool to get my Textpattern content into a format suitable for Statamic.
So I dusted off the rusty PHP skills and knocked together a wee migration tool which is up on Github
I am looking for folk who might be interested in testing/refining/forking/tweaking the tool.
Cheers and thanks for all the happy memories,
Cole
Jack of all trades, Doctor of one
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Re: Textpattern to Statamic tool
Regarding file based CMS, what made you choose Statamic over Kirby?
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#4 2013-02-16 09:53:47
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Re: Textpattern to Statamic tool
philwareham wrote:
Regarding file based CMS, what made you choose Statamic over Kirby?
I was playing with file-based CMS-es in the past (Jekyll, Hakyll, etc.), but now I’m more than happy learning Textpattern (yes, my book finally arrived after re-order from UK’s Amazon).
Moreover, both Statamic & Kirby seems to be proprietary, so another ‘cons’.
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Yeah, I was looking at these and think it might be fun to play around for a little while.
But $29 and $39 – um, no.
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You can download Kirby fully functioning to play around with. Locally or on a test site.
The license is legally required for production sites but there are no checks.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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Yeah, I was looking at these and think it might be fun to play around for a little while.
But $29 and $39 – um, no.
Well, for one the support you get from paid-for (proprietary) solutions often pays for itself.
But there is a more basic premise – as a professional web designer I operate a business. If the cost of a piece of software costs less than an hour of my billable time and saves me more than an hours work then it is a no brainer. This is one of the reason I moved away from Textpattern (sadly) – the community has been great but the time cost of engineering solutions often meant a paid-for solution was more cost-effective.
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