Comments on: Something I Didn’t Miss About WordPress – Spam

By: Will Wilkins

Will Wilkins — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:55:25 +0000

@Doug - You would have to use categories in WordPress to simulate the sections in Textpattern. What is am doing here now is using the asides category as a separate section from my journal entries. You really have to build you theme to work with the approach though. It is quite as easy as implementing sections within TXP.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:38:34 +0000

it would be very nice to hear about how you emulate txp sections on wordpress. It’s one of the things that hold me from moving to wp. I tried doing it wiht categories but it just seemed like too much hacking compared to the easiness of just adding a section on txp.

regards,

By: Will Wilkins

Will Wilkins — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:39:29 +0000

@Leland - Thanks for your comments. But to each his own... The current theme was built as an experiment. I don't think the titles look that bad and the rollovers may be too subtle for some browsers and screens. However, I do not plan on switching them to white text on a black background. I have tried Expression Engine a couple of times and heard great things about it. For now (and completely free) WordPress works just fine. I feel that WordPress is easier to use than EE and the plugins available make it extremely customizable and flexible.

By: Leland Clemmons

Leland Clemmons — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:41:09 +0000

The faux-small caps on the titles don’t look very nice… Also, the sidebar (Home, Download, et cetera) rollovers, #CCC to white, can’t be seen. My suggestion is change the rollover to black on white, to offer high contrast.
That said, I like prefer Expression Engine over WordPress, any day. More customizable, more flexible, and easier to use.

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:21:23 +0000

Font size much better now!

By: Will Wilkins

Will Wilkins — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:53:03 +0000

@Jonathan - I just felt that WordPress worked better for this site. Don't get me wrong, I still think Textpattern is great for certain sites. My portfolio site is running Textpattern and I don't see that changing. One of the things was using a text editor to edit the source code and themes, rather than in a textarea within the CMS. I plan on using the WordPress categories to emulate the functionality that I found in Textpattern's sections here soon.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:00:07 +0000

So why did you switch from TextPattern, anyway? I’ve tried a bunch of things, but keep finding myself back with WordPress by and by, I suppose because I’m familiar with the way things work and coding is therfore less of a headache. I’ve tried TextPattern twice, but never kept it because it was too much new stuff to learn right up front in order to have a custom theme. But there’s a lot of core functionality in TextPattern that I really like, and getting those same functions on WordPress is either impossible or extremely difficult (or a hack that doesn’t quite get it.) Sections comes to mind. And as you mentioned, the handy Preview button on the comment form.

By: Will Wilkins

Will Wilkins — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:39:13 +0000

@malcolm coles - Thanks for the comment Malcolm. I agree, I do not like the way the comments display on this theme at all. I recently switched from Textpattern back to WordPress and haven't finished my new theme. I just picked this minimal theme to get some of the kinks of posts created in Textpattern ironed out. Look for a new design this week.

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:00:56 +0000

What a very minimal theme! Just FYI, the font size on comments is really small compared to the main posts (using safari, OSX10.5.3) …

By: Will Wilkins

Will Wilkins — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:20:43 +0000

@SE7EN - No worries!