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#1 2009-05-28 19:52:31
- janvi
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Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Hello.
I’m havin some plans for a news blog. All comments relating to the records will be made in a forum.
How are the opportunities for this in TextPattern? TextPattern, I like it very well, but feel that it cannot satisfy my needs with this project. My choice is between TextPattern and wordpress (which I dislike …)
I need:
-Forum plugin (?)
-User Registration
-opportunity for guest posts
I really hope I do not have to use wordpress .. :)
Someone who can help me with this?
What plugins can you recommend to achieve my goals?
(Feels like more and more people stop using TextPattern, and migrating to wordpress …. is this true? if so, why?)
Last edited by janvi (2009-05-28 19:54:30)
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#2 2009-05-28 21:19:15
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Search textpattern.org for plugins.
Nah, more people start out with (and somtimes stay with WordPress). Typically people swap CMS because their needs change and another CMS does a better job of meeting them. Most folks I know pick the CMS appropriate for each site they do, as opposed to some silly loyalty to one in particular (which would just get you frustrated when it doesn’t work).
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#3 2009-05-28 21:27:10
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Yes, understand and agree.
Difficult to determine what each plugin does. Seems that most of the plugins are outdated.
Someone who can name some specific plugins that I may need?
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
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Hi Janvi
I guess you will need manfre’s plugins
Forum plugin (?)
opportunity for guest posts
Please expand
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#5 2009-05-28 21:57:54
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Need a forum that uses the user database, so users only need to log in once. (bridge.. ?)
This will be a news blog, so users must have the ability to write posts (publishing for approval).
Hmm .. is this possible with TextPattern?
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
janvi wrote:
Need a forum that uses the user database… Hmm .. is this possible with TextPattern?
Anything’s possible in TXP with a little imagination ;-) contact me if you want to see a native TXP forum in action using a heavily customised plugin.
users must have the ability to write posts (publishing for approval).
This is easiest from the admin side. Give your trusted users that write articles a login at a suitable privilege level and they can write articles for approval by those with higher privs. Alternatively, roll your own solution client-side by using mem_self_register (as mentioned already) and ign_password_protect. Then use the plugin mem_form and mem_simple_form to create an interface that can publish and edit articles directly to the database. It all depends on how clever you want to be.
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#7 2009-05-28 22:38:44
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Bloke wrote:
Anything’s possible in TXP with a little imagination ;-) contact me if you want to see a native TXP forum in action using a heavily customised plugin.
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Done..
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#8 2009-06-17 21:10:10
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Hello fellas.
I have not yet decided for wordpress or Txp.
When I create a theme, do I have to use the forms at all? Or is it enough with ‘pages’?
Have created a theme in wordpress, but dontknow if I should dive into the Txp tags or not.
Edit: Excerpts how does this work, and images (float:left) do I have to do it in htm? Quite difficult to be a wiseman in this as I see a lot of 404’s while browsing txp resources.
Fill me up with GOOD reasons to choose Txp. Remember that this will be a news blog, which must be open to contributors easily :)
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Here’s a good reason. Textpattern is inside out.
Stop thinking about a website font-end as a theme that you bend to your will, and start thinking about turbocharging your site with textpattern. Don’t build a site in TXP, build your site and put TXP inside. That way the world’s your oyster.
Just use TXP as a delivery mechanism for the content you want to be dynamic. Like here, here or here
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
janvi
Have to use forms? There are a couple of default forms that will probably need to be used, but for the most part you could design entirely on a page if you choose. My guess is that you will find the forms useful if you give them a try.
For me, txp tags are a big reason. They make the php magic as simple as html.
Txp was designed with a publishing concept. The work flow and user levels reflect that. Whether it fits with your particular paradigm, you have to decide.
Not helpful, but fwiw.
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#11 2009-06-17 21:36:50
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
bg. Stop thinking about a website font-end as a theme that you bend to your will, and start thinking about turbocharging your site with textpattern. Don’t build a site in TXP, build your site and put TXP inside. That way the world’s your oyster.
Nice way of thinking, The whole consept seems so clean to me. As a Linux/Opensource hobbyist I don’t like bloated cms’es nor Linux-distros :)
@maverick
Need to study a little bit more theese forms, seems so complicated.
Last edited by janvi (2009-06-17 21:40:35)
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#12 2009-06-17 22:22:14
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
janvi wrote:
Need to study a little bit more theese forms, seems so complicated.
Forms are good for reusing chunks of HTML. Or if a tag produces repeated output of the same code, then you’ll use a form to shape that code.
Have you found Textbook? And here especially the Textpattern Semantic Model.
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