Comments
Along with this site, I run several other Textpattern sites. With spam overwhelming the Internet of late, I have comment moderation on in all the installs and the system is supposed to email me when a comment is added.
When I setup this web server, I checked the Exim config and all was working well. Yet apparently, something changed, apt-get may have changed things on a security update. Anyway, email’s weren’t going out, I never knew comments were being made till today, when I happened to check the comments tab. I’ve reconfigured Exim, all is working fine but I’ll keep an eye on SMTP traffic.
Sorry, I wasn’t ignoring the comments, just never knew about them.
Are we there yet?
After creating the first template, CrystalX, I decided to hold off from creating any new ones until Textpattern 4.0.5 was released.
- TxP 4.0.5 reads the Default Uses page: and Uses style: in Presentation -> Sections to determine what to display when entering the Pages and Style tabs. Less confusing when you have more than one template installed.
Along with a new TxP release this month, the Textplates competition wound down with 32 new templates submitted. If the winning designer is cool with it, I’d like to create a ready to install template from his or her design.
Lots happening in the TxP world, we’ll get there soon enough.
TxPide r2254
Since I didn’t want to have all the fun, I decided to provide the Textpattern installation I use for templating to those aspiring template authors.
The r2254 stands for the version of the Textpattern Subversion repository in use, on the road to 4.0.5. Throw in a syntax highlighting web based editor and a few design tweaks here and there. Top it off with an import/export plugin, a sample template and you’ve got something to play around with on the weekend.
TxPide r2254 is my new partner in crime.
hcg_templates 0.3
Shortly after discovering mcw_templates, it became part of the default Textpattern install on any new sites I would launch.
The capability of importing and exporting your Pages, Forms and Style via a plugin was not foreign to me, it was the norm where I had migrated from. Taking what I knew of the past and the tools at hand, I began developing locally and uploading the finished site templates to my live sites.
hcg_templates 0.3 is my modified version.
Welcome
About a week ago, I began investigating how we could do templating in Textpattern.
Dean Allen designed Textpattern with a writing metaphor in mind, to make it extremely easy to write down your thoughts and to style this content. In a writing metaphor, the web site becomes like a notebook. The act of writing on it’s pages, scribbling on the inside cover, putting on a stickie, you name it, makes it a unique piece. This notebook can never be anything else, but that notebook.
The only thing we lack, is an easy way to pick the cover.
Bert Garcia