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Posted on: 14 August 2005

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Textpattern 4.0

Today is a historic day and a landmark in the evolution of Content Management Systems (CMS).

Today sees the public release of Textpattern 4.0.

Get down on your knees and bow to the elegance and simplicity of the finest and most flexible CMS on this or any other planet. Shield your childrens’ eyes against it’s brightness. Buy lots of cheese and celebrate this day in style.

OK then. What does it have that you don’t already know about. Mmmm. Let’s see now.

  1. The ability to place the comments list and/or comment entry form on any article, on any page, in any section.
  2. There is a Thank You message when a comment has been submitted.
  3. Most of the hard-coding relating to comments has also been removed.
  4. There is no longer any need to edit the /lib/admin_config.php file as these options and custom fields have been brought into admin as an advanced preferences page.
  5. Language installation and update is in admin as well.
  6. There is a new drop-down menu at both the top and bottom of all admin pages to enable quick navigation between sections.
  7. There is a new thumbnail generator built into the images tab.
  8. You can now specify your own page template and CSS style to use for the default section (front-page).
  9. You can check from within admin whether you have the latest deanload.
  10. You can put your install into debugging, testing or live mode to help find any glitches.
  11. The revision number of your install is logged in Diagnostics.
  12. Numerous new tags have been added including if_category, if_article_category, if_section and if_article_section.
  13. There are some added options in .htaccess for possible use on servers other than apache.
  14. Atom 1.0 has been added.
  15. A lot of other stuff I can’t remember at the moment as well as the usual numerous bug fixes.

Now why are you still reading this? Go and get it.

Comments ( 11 )

sekhu
indeed great news and finally something for the general public to get their teeth into – now textbook needs some work, as decent as it is, it doesn’t have the organisation that say the codex for WP does. Can’t wait for the upgrade.
14 August 2005, 17:20
Zenith
I’ll upgrade tomorrow night hopefully when I have a bit more time. I’ve had to actually go out and stuff this weekend, it’s terrible! :)
14 August 2005, 22:10
Stuart
Go out? What’s that then?
14 August 2005, 22:16
sekhu
bets on who asks for 1.0 first?
15 August 2005, 13:41
Stuart
I don’t think they will get it. Dean has explained why it’s been set to 4.0 and I’m happy with it. Maybe we should direct them to RC1?
15 August 2005, 13:53
Suzy
trying to figure out the commenting system, so this is dual purpose post ;)

I’ve upgraded to 4.0 and don’t mind that it’s 4.0 and not 1.0 as far as I can see the rc’s were pretty solid anyway!

anyway feel free to delete this post Stuart as it’s been a long weekend and I’m sorry for taking up your blog..
15 August 2005, 17:05
Stuart
No problem Suzy. Check out whatever you like. If you want to know how I’ve done something just ask. :)
15 August 2005, 17:40
Myisha
I upgraded early this morning.I ready to get finish with my site.I’m so impatient!!LOL
16 August 2005, 18:48
Stuart
Ha ha. Well don’t rush it Myisha. Patience is a virtue. :)
17 August 2005, 01:44
Joni
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rub it in already! I will concede that one really cool thing that TXP does that none of the other popular CMSs do (they know who they are), is allow you to specify on a per-post basis what your “comment hook” is going to be. I think that’s neat and you can always play on whatever your post’s theme is. I did that all the time when I was using TXP. And it’s the one thing I truly miss about it.
21 August 2005, 01:29
Stuart
Well I could list all the goodies you haven’t seen yet but….. I have another site which I’m keeping up-to-date with revisions and they have just introduced the basic code for a proper 404. If you click on any link bar the Weblog you should get a result. :)
21 August 2005, 02:21

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