Textpattern

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Textpattern
Original author(s) Dean Allen
Developer(s) Team Textpattern
Initial releaseMarch 19, 2003;22 years ago (2003-03-19)
Stable release
4.8.8 [1] / 2022-01-24 [±]
Repository github.com/textpattern/textpattern
Written in PHP
Operating system Unix-like, Windows, Linux
Available in54 languages
Type Blog software, Content Management System, Content Management Framework
License GNU GPLv2
Website textpattern.com

Textpattern is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for PHP and MySQL. [2] It was originally developed by Dean Allen and now developed by Team Textpattern. While it is typically listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a general-purpose content management system. The current stable version is Textpattern 4.8.8 [1] .

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History

Textpattern grew out of the system used to publish Textism, Allen's personal site, and an unnamed version was announced as available to alpha testers in 2001. [3] In 2003, Textpattern was formally announced. [4] The early alpha versions were followed by a series of beta releases which saw more widespread use, and which were themselves superseded by a series of "gamma" releases [5] which expanded and refined Textpattern's capabilities. Since the final gamma version (1.19), Textpattern has been distributed under the GNU General Public License. [6]

The next version, in September 2004, was Release Candidate 1 for Textpattern 1.0. [7] In a somewhat unorthodox move, Textpattern continued to accumulate features as the second, third, fourth and fifth release candidates were made public. During this time the official development team expanded to include several contributors from the Textpattern community: with Release Candidate 3 Alex Shiels and Pedro Palazón Archived 2005-08-16 at the Wayback Machine joined the development team, and Sencer Yurdagül Archived 2007-09-12 at the Wayback Machine was brought into the fold as Textpattern's release manager with Release Candidate 4.

Due to a development process that extended much longer than originally envisioned, the first stable release of Textpattern was version 4.0 [8] on August 14, 2005.

Release history

The 4.2.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.2.0 released".), which was the next major release following 4.0.8, in September 2009 was a major update. The most notable new features were administrative-side enhancements and hooks for creating administrative plugins and themes.

The 4.3.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 released".) in November 2010 introduced new features and improvements, notably more advanced image handling, and administrative updates in preparation for modernising and streamlining the core code.

The 4.5.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.5.0 released: a hive of activity".) in August 2012 brought many improvements, including a new HTML5 public theme and extensive modernisation of the administration area of the system.

The 4.6.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.6.0 released: it's big".) in September 2016 is one of the most significant releases to-date. Two years in the making, the update from v4.5.7 to v4.6.0 saw almost as many new commits to the code base as there had been in the entire previous project. The result was modernized code, an improved parser, and many new features.

The 4.7.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.7.0 released: theme support as standard".) in May 2018 added support for themes, which had been one of the noted deficiencies of the platform compared to other software. [9] This release was dedicated in honor of creator Dean Allen who died in January 2018.

The 4.8.0 release ( "Textpattern CMS 4.8.0 released".) in February 2020 contained over 800 changes to Textpattern's code to add new functionality, enhance existing features, resolve some issues from previous Textpattern releases and lay more foundations for extending the capabilities of Textpattern in future.

Developers

All of the original developers have departed the project: Allen and Palazón in 2006, Shiels in 2007, and Yurdagül in 2009. As of March 2022, the current developers are Stef Dawson, Phil Wareham, Pete Cooper, and Oleg Loukianov.

Features

Textpattern offers a number of features and conveniences to designers, users, site administrators and developers, including:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Textpattern 4.8.8 released: PHP 8.1 support, security fix, and more". textpattern.com. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  2. "System requirements". Textpattern. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. "Upcoming". Archived from the original on 2004-03-02. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  4. "Textpattern". Archived from the original on 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  5. "Textpattern". Archived from the original on 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  6. "g1.19 Released".
  7. "1.0rc1 Released".
  8. "Textpattern 4 Stable Released".
  9. "Textpattern CMS gains Themes support". 8 January 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.