[mention] 2011 WaterAndStone CMS Market Share Report Results

douglgm · 2011-11-30 20:49:48

Does the number of updates/releases affect the number of downloads?

totoff · 2011-11-30 22:30:10

txp in many respects is one of the best and flexible cms out there. so, why few people know about it?

my 2cents as marketing professional:

the brand is fractionated. we have several domains under which people find information about textpattern (e.g. textpattern.com, textpattern.org, textgarden.org etc.) consolidating under one roof maybe is the easiest step forward to go.
not much “buzz” on textpattern.com (three blog posts in three month) make the impression of a “dead” system. share more information.
no up-to-date literature about how to use it. a printed book (up-to-date) would be a great step forward (no, i’m not the one to write it. not experienced enough with textpattern).
major and important plugins such as for example rss_unlimited_categories are no longer updated. i have no quick solution for this (same is true for the other points) but i’m convinced it diminshes peoples trust in the cms.
i’m not sure whether textile is the best solution for the average content writer or not. my clients hardly have the ability to get grips on textile. i personally like it, but they are used to ms word and prefer wsiwyg editors – in general clients have no clue about html and want a quick and easy solution.
make more buzz on social media as others have suggested here

apologies if my english is not the best. hope it gets clear how much i appreciate txp and the work of the core developers. but if it comes to marketing some things could improve.

best, christoph

philwareham · 2011-11-30 22:48:40

Integrating the forums a bit into the textpattern.com site as a ‘latest forum posts’ sidebar or in the footer and adding social sharing options to forum posts as suggested would be a step in the right direction. Gives you self-generating new content without much effort – your users effectively make the content for you.

lazlo · 2011-11-30 23:51:13

philwareham wrote:

Integrating the forums a bit into the textpattern.com site as a ‘latest forum posts’ sidebar or in the footer and adding social sharing options to forum posts as suggested would be a step in the right direction. Gives you self-generating new content without much effort – your users effectively make the content for you.

I would upvote this if I could…

wet · 2011-12-01 15:22:57

philwareham wrote:

…adding social sharing options to forum posts as suggested would be a step in the right direction.

I sprinkled a few little blue birds across:

Squeeze them!

colak · 2011-12-01 15:37:46

read your twits but there is no answer from them regarding the rest of us (I have no social networking accounts). Hopefully they will resolve it at which case our user-base will definitely show a sharp increase next year.

lazlo · 2011-12-01 18:44:52

Thanks Robert

A sweet start, if at some point we could get the G+, Fbook. Linkedin, direct link down to the comment level as well, I would appreciate it.
The google plus 1 button (not the G+ share) might work tracking popularity on the comment and thread level for lurkers.
This is good for us who have to live in the social media world.

L.

wet · 2011-12-01 18:53:30

lazlo wrote:

A sweet start, if at some point we could get the … Fbook

I tried, but FBook insists on citing the post one below the one I intended. Mysterious. Due to privacy concerns in Germany which are our third-largest visitor population, I’d rather not use their intrusive native API if possible.

wet · 2011-12-01 19:03:43

philwareham wrote:

Integrating the forums a bit into the textpattern.com site as a ‘latest forum posts’

Done. Which serves to show that this forum is basically a Bloke one-man show ;)

lazlo · 2011-12-01 19:06:02

wet wrote:

I tried, but FBook insists on citing the post one below the one I intended. Mysterious. Due to privacy concerns in Germany which are our third-largest visitor population, I’d rather not use their intrusive native API if possible.

There are larger fish to fry, this is already a big step forward. Thank you.

L

lazlo · 2011-12-01 19:16:03

wet wrote:

philwareham wrote:
Integrating the forums a bit into the textpattern.com site as a ‘latest forum posts’

Done. Which serves to show that this forum is basically a Bloke one-man show ;)

Fantastic!

One (or two) little thing can we wrap a link to the forums around the “Recent Community Conversations” for context and maybe even a see more button/link that shows the last 100 or last day/week in that beautiful format.

regards
L.

maniqui · 2011-12-01 19:18:42

The little blue bird seem to have introduced a glitch on my side:

http://imagebin.org/186516

Edit: clarification: the glitch is that big pale yellow box, next to the right of post content.

It doesn’t happen if I keep the TXP forum font-size at default size, but if I expand it using Ctrl++ (and that’s how I browse the forum), the issue is triggered.

A quick fix I’ve found is to set the height for .conr to 18px.
I’ll appreciate this fix being deployed, assuming it doesn’t break anything else :)

Last edited by maniqui (2011-12-01 19:20:03)

philwareham · 2011-12-01 19:21:49

Great work. A couple of suggestions if i may: Text seems a little large compared to rest of page to me, and maybe put dates in there to show people just how current this stuff is – proves the project is being used and discussed right now when people come to the homepage.

maruchan · 2011-12-01 19:36:22

One thing I’ve wondered: What if we just changed the “Community Support” menu item at textpattern.com to a direct “Community Forum” link —I wonder if there’d be a nice uptick in users?

The current forum link is almost hidden, and I remember that being frustrating as a beginner.

Destry · 2011-12-01 23:13:44

maruchan wrote:

One thing I’ve wondered: What if we just changed the “Community Support” menu item at textpattern.com to a direct “Community Forum” link … The current forum link is almost hidden, and I remember that being frustrating as a beginner.

Something I’ve argued before, so certainly agree with. And documentation should point directly to .net. Once FAQs are audited and keepers re-written in context to “The Docs”, etc, there will be no logical reason not to. But why wait? Making these links at the main level helps address what totoff was talking about too, tying things together better and making it more obvious at the top.

And if we do some redirecting of the redundant domain names (also talked about before), e.g.,…

textpattern.net -> docs.textpattern.com
textpattern.org -> plugins.textpattern.com

…then we do one better.

Textpattern CMS

Textpattern CMS support forum

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