Tooltip popups and notes on admin screen
Add some help tips to your admin page
This is a reasonably simple way to add some additional notes and helpful text to your admin screen. The popup tooltips act upon mouseover of the tooltipped text.
Self-register on a Textpattern site
Add text on login page to have people register
This will simply add a bit of text and a link on the login page to let people know to register if they don’t already have a login.
Random articles
Call a random article or list of random articles
The ability to call a random article is already built into the txp:article_custom tag, with the attribute sortby="rand()"
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Renaming Textpattern directory
Change Textpattern administration directory
If you’re looking to rename the Textpattern admin directory (which by default is “textpattern”), then…
Password reset in MYSQL database
Reset lost or forgotten Textpattern password
doArticle
Static articles in chosen order
(Note: use of doArticle is not recommended practise. The instructions have been updated to use…
if_individual_article and if_article_list tags
Conditional tags for article list and full article pages
These conditionals are built into textpattern and are very useful for setting up your pages…
Subversion (SVN)
Subversion and Textpattern
Subversion is a version control program. You can use it to get the latest version of textpattern Dean is working on.
Open All Comments
Open Comments in Textpattern after an Import
Clean Category URLs
Clean Category URLs the lazy way
Clean urls are so much nicer, and I believe better spidered. Getting clean category urls the easy way (aka. the lazy way)
My site nav is hard coded into a custom form, so I changed the urls to what I want.
Image must be same format as thumbnail
Regarding images that are uploaded through the Textpattern admin interface (tabs: content > images), please…
Customizing Custom Fields
How to add custom fields and edit names
Custom fields are available under Advanced Options, on the left of the writing area when…
Comments Count
Displaying the number of comments
Changing the Date Format
Override Date Format
You probably know you can change the Date format, Archive date format, and Comments date…
Finding the best colors
Sorting out great colors for your site
Getting those colors juuuust right can be a tedious task. And guess what, others have…
Hiding the Authors List
Restricting view of authors list to authorized admin access
So it came to my attention that, even though only Managing Editors and Publishers (Textpattern…
Changing passwords
Changing your Admin Panel password
Auto RSS feed icon in Firefox
This Tip is now outdated, as Textpattern provides this functionality out-of-the-box. See feed_link tag.
Textpattern Diagram
Drawing the connections between Presentation and Content
This is a very clear diagram that explains, through illustration, the relationships between the elements…
Textpattern Buttons
Steal these buttons!
Textpattern, clash of the plug-ins!
The clash of zem_redirect and style-switcher plug-ins
Having installed the style sheet switcher plug-in, shortly followed by my hacked version of the…
Textpattern Bookmarklet
The bookmarklet pre-loads the following fields custom_1 (closet) = Page-Title custom_2 (cupboard) = Page-URL Title…
Prevent email notifications for your own comments
Textpattern Notes Part 3
Textpattern transition?
Reasons to move to Textpattern from MovableType
Adding a Default Section
Migrating to TextPattern
Out of the box, the TextPattern clean-url section handling isn’t quite what I want. Radio’s…
Pagination
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