TextPattern for Dummies

Textpattern is one of the other famous publishing engines used by many around the world. The first time I heard about it, I got it mixed up with MovableType for some reason. I suppose it’s because it sounded close to TypePad. *shrug*

I’ve yet to try out Textpattern but have come across one blog that has a very in depth user experience of the publishing engine.

From the person behind Musings of an Engineer, he’s setup a Textpattern division on his website with a documentation qualified to be the Textpattern manual called Textpattern Information.

In his series of Textpattern 121 Part One, he’s noted everything from the requirements of the server to even the .htaccess file. If you still can’t get Textpattern running after following his detailed Configuration settings, you definetely might need to use the Textpattern support forums later.

In his Textpattern 121 Part Two series, he continues documenting the styling properties of Textpattern and how you could get the best out of it. Part two is more of a guide for designing Textpattern to fit your needs.

If you find this two part series not enough to consume to aid you in setting up and customizing Textpattern, I think someone better start writing a Textpattern for Dummies really soon. But I’m sure the only problems you’ll experience might be technical if anything goes wrong. That’s when you head for the support forums.

But now weighing other important essentials like plugins for Textpattern, I’m not so sure if it’s big in that department. Nonetheless, I feel Textpattern definetely has something going for it especially with huge resource websites out there on it.

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