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#1 2008-05-16 23:09:57
- subigo
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From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
Hey everyone,
I run a fairly successful news site that started out as a wordpress blog. Unfortunately, over time the site grew and grew, all the while remaining on wordpress. I’ve got so many hacks and plugins on this site it’s not even funny. I’ve decided that I NEED to move to a real CMS before the site gets any bigger. I’ve used TextPattern in the past (like 3 years ago) and I remember liking the system. However, I do have some questions that I couldn’t find answers to…
1. My url setup is VERY important. All urls must follow this style: www.mysite.com/00293/the-title-of-the-article-goes-here … The double zeros MUST be before the article number (which in this case would be 293). Is it easy to setup this link structure in TextPattern?
2. I understand that I can import a wordpress database, but how do those articles and pages show up once part of wordpress? Do they keep the same link structure, etc…? (comments don’t matter as my site doesn’t have them)
3. I’m sure there are some contact form plugins out there, but are there any plugins that can handle very large and detailed forms?
I think that’s about it for now…
Thanks
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#2 2008-05-17 00:44:04
- subigo
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
Oh yeah… I also need to know if textpattern has a maintenance mode? Meaning, can I take the site offline to visitors (they will see a message saying we are down at the moment), but I can still work on the site and see the front and backend?
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
Here you go: http://textpattern.org/plugins/903/rvm_maintenance
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#4 2008-05-17 11:52:28
- els
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
subigo wrote:
1. My url setup is VERY important. All urls must follow this style: www.mysite.com/00293/the-title-of-the-article-goes-here … The double zeros MUST be before the article number (which in this case would be 293). Is it easy to setup this link structure in TextPattern?
Textpattern has a built-in permanent link mode ‘/id/title’, and I suppose adding the 2 zeros can be done with a rewrite rule in .htaccess, but I’m not an expert on that.
3. I’m sure there are some contact form plugins out there, but are there any plugins that can handle very large and detailed forms?
Have a look at zem_contact_reborn. I don’t know what exactly you need it to do, but it can do quite a lot :)
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
Here are a few examples of how zem contact reborn can be used
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#6 2008-05-17 13:40:17
- els
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
I wrote:
Textpattern has a built-in permanent link mode ‘/id/title’, and I suppose adding the 2 zeros can be done with a rewrite rule in .htaccess, but I’m not an expert on that.
Actually it’s the other way around, the zeros should be stripped from the url ;) but still possible I assume.
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
My url setup is VERY important. All urls must follow this style: www.mysite.com/00293/the-title-of-the-article-goes-here … The double zeros MUST be before the article number (which in this case would be 293). Is it easy to setup this link structure in TextPattern?
For URLs generated by TXP itself, you’d have to hack TXP code to make force it into using such 5-digit IDs. TXP doesn’t support this natively because you’re limiting yourself to 99999 articles this way.
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#8 2008-05-17 17:30:12
- uli
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Re: From Wordpress to Textpattern - A few questions
I think gbp_permanent_links is capable of doing regexp. You could ask over there, this thread is quite active.
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