Textpattern CMS

#1 2006-09-28 08:13:58

satsilem

Member

Registered: 2006-09-20

Posts: 19

Is textpattern right for what I need

Hello to everybody,

First of all thanks to all of you for the support and your time.

I have install locally textpattern in order to learn more about this great system,

I have previous experience with other CMS like mambo and joomla, but I think that these systems are very limited at their presentation layer.

Any way I have a website in mambo so I want to remake it with textpattern. So I have some questions to ask

1st: My website is a news and articles website. All articles and news are categorized like this:

NEWS
——- local
——- sports
——- world
——- etc

POLITICAL ARTICLES
——— reviews
——— presentations
——— etc

ENVIROMENTAL ARTICLES
——— news
——— how to
——— etc

I know that there is a way to achieve this. But I don’t really know how you can create your home page in order to show specific articles from different categories. For example I want to show the latest news for the local sport team, the article about global warming, and the latest news from the world.
is this possible?

2nd: I want to have a users login where only the registered users can see some sections, and only registered users can make comments.

This are the main questions (for the moment)

I don’t want easy solutions, only directions and guidelines and I really want to escape from joomla and to use textpatternfor all my projects

Thanks in advance for your help

Last edited by satsilem (2006-09-28 08:15:33)

#2 2006-09-28 09:13:42

Mary

Sock Enthusiast

Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: Is textpattern right for what I need

• article_custom
• ign_password_protect
• You’ll need some kind of plugin/modification if you want to allow users to register themselves.
• You’d need a plugin to restrict comments as well.

You might find Drupal a better match is you want the basic “portal” features of registration and membership stuff.

Last edited by Mary (2006-09-28 09:14:55)

#3 2006-09-28 15:21:41

satsilem

Member

Registered: 2006-09-20

Posts: 19

Re: Is textpattern right for what I need

the thing is I am already in love with TXP and I don’t want to swich to Drupal.

I think that there might be a plugin for users managment

Thanks for the respond, I will keep searching