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#1 2012-11-07 16:07:24

mosquito
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Registered: 2012-11-07
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Will Textpattern work for me?

Hi all,

I am wondering if I should install this on my server.

I want to start a photo blog where users can register and then login to upload and share pictures (front end, not back end like wordpress). I want them to be able to write comments about the pictures and also to be able to share the the picture link via social media if possible.

Would Textpattern work

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#2 2012-11-07 16:59:29

whaleen
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From: Portland
Registered: 2006-05-11
Posts: 373
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

The plugins cbe_frontauth and mem_self_register would handle the aspects of membership but ‘front-end’ submission of image(s) would require some additional layer I am not aware of but some script could be whipped up I’m sure . You could certainly accommodate your users from the back-end very easily in the image handling part of you application and it should be added that the back-end can be skinned to make it plain to your users what the tasks are without distracting them with a big bulky plethora of CMS controls.

You could consider modeling separately for two UIs:

1. Viewing, conversation, and interaction on the front-end
2. Image management on the back-end


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#3 2012-11-07 17:08:52

mosquito
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

Hiya, I am very new to this so was hoping for a CMS system which would easily be able to incorporate the functions I mentioned, I am not a coder and have very basic HTML and PHP knowledge, was hoping I could get some plugins to do the jobs. Can you recommend any other software which may handle this better?

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#4 2012-11-07 17:11:29

mosquito
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

do you think this plugin would work

http://textpattern.org/plugins/927/lam_image_uploader

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#5 2012-11-07 17:16:14

whaleen
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

Can you recommend any other software which may handle this better?

Sqaurespace

do you think this plugin would work: lam_image_uploader

Yes.


txtstrap (Textpattern + Twitter Bootstrap + etc…)

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#6 2012-11-07 17:20:28

mosquito
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

cool, will stick with Textpattern as its more cost effective, thankyou for your help

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#7 2012-11-07 17:29:53

whaleen
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

mosquito wrote:

cool, will stick with Textpattern as its more cost effective, thankyou for your help

No sweat. Welcome to Textpattern. There are a lot of nice people here.


txtstrap (Textpattern + Twitter Bootstrap + etc…)

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#8 2012-11-07 17:32:34

MattD
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From: Monterey, California
Registered: 2008-03-21
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

lam_image_uploader doesn’t completly solve your problem. I don’t know of a plugin that provides image uploads from the front end.


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#9 2012-11-07 18:01:34

Zanza
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Registered: 2005-08-18
Posts: 699
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

There used to be a “reserved” plugin for this, that you can request here.

I’m not actually using it. Security reasons behind that secreteness, if I remember.

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#10 2012-11-07 23:26:59

tye
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From: Pottsville, NSW
Registered: 2005-07-06
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

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#11 2012-11-08 10:52:33

mosquito
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

how does the “mem_moderation_image” plugin differ and why would the “lam_image_uploader” not completely work?

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#12 2012-11-08 11:57:28

Zanza
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Re: Will Textpattern work for me?

lam_image_uploader (and bot_image_upload, to name another) works on the back-end. You have to let people create an account and then login and go to the write tab in the backend in order to load the images. Both mem_moderation_image and sed_afu work on the frontend. It’s a matter of what you want your workflow to be. The frontend ones could be more difficult to setup.

Last edited by Zanza (2012-11-08 11:57:50)

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