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TXP5 or Textpattern 5?
On the subject of the branding Textpattern, I had an idea about our public facing demo site.
Instead of a default install, its full of content as its the backend for https://textpattern.com/.
So, initially https://textpattern.com/ presents however we like, but includes subtle/but-not-to-subtle links to the relevant tab in Textpattern. Visitors get a thrill thinking they’re changing the content, whereas they are actually changing regularly flushed / reset database tables. They see how Textpattern works at the same time, complete with shortcodes, themes, etc.
Textpattern is its own advert :)
Last edited by giz (Yesterday 23:10:54)
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Re: TXP5 or Textpattern 5?
Interesting idea. If we can get over the user-need-to-login hump, that’s novel.
Technically we’d need to repave like we do now from a recently cloned git repo, and also change links etc in Prefs and internal articles. Plus the usual dance with images/files since Txp still doesn’t have the import ability for those (yet…).
One potential sticking point is what will site spiders think to having duplicate content out there? Essentially a clone of textpattern.com. Unless you mean allow people to change the live site, which I’m not comfy with given it links to the official download files and could be interfered with, regardless of how short that time window is.
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