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#1 2008-06-23 08:53:36

invision2

New Member

Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 1

Can TXP do this....?

Hi,

I’ve been a web developer for a couple of years doing PHP/MySQL and CSS/XTHML.

I’ve been using WP in the past few months and have installed and played with both sNews and WP and really impressed with the latter.

OK, “get to the point” I hear you say.

I am just wondering if TXP can do the following:

- Allow my client to ‘replace’ the home page image as often as s/he wishes
- Upload Files/PDFs to specific posts in categories
- Add images(auto-thumbnails generated) for specific posts
- And would a non-tech-savvy client be able to add/update posts without much hassle. I assume so as I found it VERY easy.

It seems to be right up my street, but I’m not sure if I should just stick with WP for quickness sake.

Regards,

Last edited by invision2 (2008-06-23 08:55:46)

#2 2008-06-23 09:16:47

uli

Moderator

From: Cologne

Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,306

Re: Can TXP do this....?

invision2 wrote:

1. Allow my client to ‘replace’ the home page image as often as s/he wishes
2. Upload Files/PDFs to specific posts in categories
3. Add images(auto-thumbnails generated) for specific posts
4. And would a non-tech-savvy client be able to add/update posts without much hassle.

1. Yes. (Automatically changed/random image: Yes.)
2. Yes. (Upload is done separately (not to an article), and “connected” via tag pasting.)
3. Yes. Multiple images require a plugin (hak_image, upm_image, …)
4. Yes. (Though styling requires more hassle permissiveness than editing text ;)

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#3 2008-06-23 09:17:44

jm

Plugin Author

From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 1,746

Website

Re: Can TXP do this....?

Yes x 2.

1. article_custom for new posts. file_download_list for PDFs, or to associate files with posts, check out upm_file.
2. It is pretty easy for average people to edit posts. The biggest problem I have is with them pasting in Word docs, but you can’t really stop it (mangled special characters).

Download and play with TXP :). Bookmark the TextBook and the tag index.

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