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Switch Textpatterns admin language to TXP’s core text strings aka gTxt_strings and see them all in place.

This is simple Cheatsheet that describes all TXP tags. For ver 4.0.5 PNG 112kB PDF…

Just plug in your TXP install path and use the Bookmarklet Builder to make yourself…

In continuation to Mary’s previous article:
Section and Category Pull-down Menus, here is how to have these as simple category selects, provided, you have one article assigned per category

Get to your TXP backend in with three keystrokes.

zem_contact is a plugin which extends Textpattern with a set of custom tags supporting email contact forms.

How to transmit arbitrary information with zem_contact introduces some of the inner workings of that plugin, and how to use it for more than just transferring a visitor’s name and address.

Recently I wanted to open up the article body in an new window. On the page I had set up I exposed the title and the excerpt and then an link to where the article body was opened up in a new window. Below I will briefly cover how I did.

The “sortby” attribute is a direct interface to the database language SQL. That means you have all the sort power in the world.

A tool to package your Textpattern plugins.

So here’s the first thing that my new site will host. A full blown Textpattern reference.

How to make another tab for changing passwords if the user doesn’t have admin…

How to enable section-specific searching

A simple export script that iterates through your forms, templates and css and exports them to a folder. The second script updates the database with the exported files.

Have you noticed your installation of Dean Allen’s Textpattern to be serving up pages a little slower than expected? Puzzled by those ridiculously long render times? Here’s 4 helpful tips to get your site moving.

I got sick of seeing my home IP address in the logs (usually more of them than anything else). Changed a couple of lines in textpattern/publish/log.php and now my logs almost never change.

One of the obvious benefits of Textpattern is it's ease of use and the control…

<div class="<txp:section />"><h2><txp:section /></h2></div>
This is really simple but read on for more info.

<txp:article_custom sortby="custom_4" sortdir="asc" />

This is the documentation of a few of the steps I took to achieve a customized comments system..

i had stated in the forum that i would like to be able to:

have the comments show only when you click on ‘comments’, rather than having the comments and commentform (particularly) shown fully when on a single_article page.

so here’s how i successfully managed this on mine…

Based on btw_bookmarklets

Offers a tag for bookmarklets feature, like “blog this”.

<txp:article /> is NOT the same as <txp:article_custom />
They cannot be interchanged. This is perhaps one of the most common confusions for Textpatterners.

It’s possible to use the CSS database in Textpattern to store external javascript so that it doesn’t have to be embedded in the page template.

The original Textpattern plugin template.

A nice little style-switcher script that can work independently of Textpattern, and can be set up with very little fuss.

Creating a pull-down menu (also known as a “jump” or “select” or popup menu) of…

The original contents of this tip are outdated, and no longer necessary. See the section…

Here are the steps involved for including the Phplist newsletter in your textpattern site.

See TextBook entries: User Roles and Permissions Modifying User Account Roles and Privileges

Are you trying to embed PHP scripts or run php includes in your Textpattern site? not working?