Textpattern would be more popular if??

bici · 2013-02-25 22:34:24

philwareham wrote:

True words Destry. I’d love nothing better than to sideline client work and build Textpattern full time, kind of like the Acquia (Drupal) and Automattic (WordPress) model. We could build an awesome CMS between us.

In reality, Textpattern is a hobby project, although one I enjoy contributing to immensely (sometimes when I really should be doing paid work instead, but I have a good boss). Probably always will be a hobby unless any of you has a lump of cash hanging around they don’t want!

there may be a case to be made for business model approach …. a TextDesign (Textpattern) model, a la Acquia Automatic model.

philwareham · 2013-02-25 23:12:13

They make most of their revenue through hosted services and data though (I have an Acquia server for a Drupal site we run). Not something I’m interested in doing really.

bici · 2013-02-25 23:28:38

philwareham wrote:

They make most of their revenue through hosted services and data though (I have an Acquia server for a Drupal site we run). Not something I’m interested in doing really.

Right. I know we have Textdrive for hosting solutions. but it’s a separate entity. (Although Dean Allen has indicated that he was going to feature Textpattern amoung the other CMes currently being mentioned). The notion raised is for a business model to help fund development of Textpattern. just throwing ideas around.

While i appreciate the open access … free beer… approach, I myself would have no qualms in a subscription service of some kind. i.e. a 100$ fee for every site developed using Textpattern.

I have said it a thousand times… but I would pay 60-70$ for a good up-to-date book on Textpattern.

I would also happily pay for ebooks that cover specialized tutorials.
I know a sample of one doesn’t guarantee a profit for writers of these books/manuals but it’s a start.

PS dean now mentions textpattern

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Gocom · 2013-02-25 23:39:57

It indeed would be awesome to be able to build Textpattern full time. I’ve nothing against the idea.

colak · 2013-02-26 06:14:40

bici wrote:

PS dean now mentions textpattern

It was about time:)

philwareham · 2013-03-02 20:46:41

r5375 changes the public-side theme to a neutral greyscale, which is a better starting point for your own building work.

See it running here

It’s on GitHub here

The yellow in the Hive admin theme is not going away, but I’ve made a start on modularising the colourways so that hackers can change the theme’s colours relatively easily. More work on that soon.

kvnmcwebn · 2013-03-04 04:13:16

Copy from the wordpress model, not software itself. Themes are a proble with textpattern and the general public, but the type of people that use txp a lot probably don’t use themes. So i don’t know.

gour · 2013-03-04 09:04:32

bici wrote:

I have said it a thousand times… but I would pay 60-70$ for a good up-to-date book on Textpattern.

Recently I bought THE book and find it is very good. Some tags are missing, but that is easily found in the ‘official’ docs.

I’m curious what do you miss in the ‘old’ book?

bici · 2013-03-04 19:26:51

Don’t get me wrong. the old book is good. But it’s not an advanced book. Its introductory and serves a purpose. A new more advanced book that shows how to build more the blog type of sites would be good. More case studies with some of the advanced use of tags.

gour · 2013-03-04 19:46:52

bici wrote:

But it’s not an advanced book. Its introductory and serves a purpose. A new more advanced book that shows how to build more the blog type of sites would be good.

You must be kidding, right?

It has use case with multiuser blog site and even covers writing plugins.

The only thing missing is diving into core’s source. :-)

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