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Here we are again then. Admin. Pretty boring stuff here really. Both apps. have much the same sort of information they require to work properly such as your name, email address, are you in a sub-directory, how do you want dates shown etc etc. So I’m not going to go through it all and bore you to tears but I thought I’d show you a couple of screenshots from TXP to point out a couple of things WP doesn’t have.

Here’s the screen you enter first in admin with TXP. I’m not going all through it I just want you to see that column of buttons with ?‘s on them. These appear everwhere in TXP and you will see them in the other screenshots in previous posts and in screenshots yet to come. If you click on one of these you get a little popup with more detailed information on what is required or what it will do. Very useful for the novice and experienced user alike. There is nothing like this in WP.

(This is a very large image.) This is also something that you won’t get in WP except through plugins. There are also separate apps. out there such as Shortstat but this little gizmo is built into TXP and is very handy. This will keep a 7 day log of referers for you at no extra expense. Next I shall go back to the individual sections of Content in TXP and the corresponding sections in WP.