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| screenshot alt = The article write panel in Textpattern CMS 4.7

| caption = Textpattern CMS admin panel

| author = [[Dean Allen]]

| developer = Team Textpattern

| released = {{Start date and age|2003|03|19}}

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| website = {{URL|https://textpattern.com/}}

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'''Textpattern''' is a [[free and open-source software|free and open-source]] [[content management system]] (CMS) for [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]],.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Textpattern |title=System requirements |url=https://textpattern.com/about/119/system-requirements |accessdate=5 October 2016}}</ref>. 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 {{Textpattern version}}.

==History==

Textpattern grew out of the system used to publish [http://textism.com/ ''Textism]'', Allen's personal site, and an unnamed version was announced as available to alpha testers in 2001.<ref>{{cite web | title = Upcoming | url = http://textism.com/article/308/upcoming | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040302060105/http://www.textism.com/article/308/Upcoming | archive-date= 2004-03-02 | access-date= 2016-10-05 }}</ref> In 2003, Textpattern was formally announced.<ref>{{cite web | title = Textpattern| url = http://textism.com/article/661/textpattern | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040312114829/http://www.textism.com/article/661/Textpattern | archive-date= 2004-03-12 | access-date= 2016-10-05 }}</ref> 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alpha versions were followed by a series of beta releases which saw more widespread use, and which were themselves superseded by a series of "gamma" releases<ref>{{cite web | title = Textpattern| url = http://textism.com/article/781/textpattern| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040313194455/http://www.textism.com/article/781/Textpattern | archive-date= 2004-03-13 | access-date= 2016-10-05 }}</ref> which expanded and refined Textpattern's capabilities. Since the final gamma version (1.19), Textpattern has been distributed under the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>{{cite web | title = g1.19 Released| url = https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=2102}}</ref>

The next version, in September 2004, was Release Candidate 1 for Textpattern 1.0.<ref>{{cite web | title = 1.0rc1 Released| url = https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=3810}}</ref> 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20050802105320/http://thresholdstate.com/ Alex Shiels] and [http://kusor.net/ Pedro Palazón] joined the development team, and [http://www.sencer.de/ Sencer Yurdagül] was brought into the fold as Textpattern's release manager with Release Candidate 4.

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Due to a development process that extended much longer than originally envisioned, the first stable release of Textpattern was version 4.0<ref>{{cite web | title = Textpattern 4 Stable Released| url = https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=10369}}</ref> on August 14, 2005.

==Release Historyhistory==

The 4.2.0 release ({{cite web | title = Textpattern CMS 4.2.0 released | url = https://textpattern.com/weblog/336/textpattern-cms-420-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.

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The 4.7.0 release ({{cite web | title = Textpattern CMS 4.7.0 released: theme support as standard | url = https://textpattern.com/weblog/412/textpattern-cms-470-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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Textpattern CMS gains Themes support|url=https://textpattern.com/weblog/403/textpattern-cms-gains-themes-support|date=8 January 2018|accessdate=18 May 2018}}</ref> This release was dedicated in honor of creator Dean Allen who died in January 2018.

The 4.8.0 release ({{cite web | title = Textpattern CMS 4.8.0 released | url = https://textpattern.com/weblog/423/textpattern-cms-480-released}}) in February 2020 contained over 800 changes to Textpattern’sTextpattern'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 JanuaryMarch 20172022, the current developers are Stef Dawson, Phil Wareham, Pete Cooper, and Oleg Loukianov and Robert Wetzlmayr.

==Features==

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* Ease of publishing using [[Textile (markup language)|Textile]], a text-to-[[HTML]] converter which permits users to publish content without learning HTML.

* Preview of both the final "look" of content and of its [[HTML]].

* Theme templates that permit both live and in-development layouts to operate side-by-side using the same live data. Development templates can be previewed and made live instantly without need for a staging environment.

* [[Standards-compliant]] XHTML/HTML5 and [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] "out of the box", with all layout in the default setup handled via stylesheets.

* A tag-based [[Web template|template]] system which allows the creation of reusable blocks of content and code, referred to as "forms", and a built-in "tag builder" to automate their creation.

* Tags can be used as values of other tags' attributes ("tags in tags").

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* A privilege-based user hierarchy, allowing for an organized structure of writers, editors and publishers to aid collaboration and content publishing workflows.

* A commenting system, including measures to combat [[Spam (electronic)|spam]].

* Built-in site statistics, including [[HTTP referrer|referrer]] tracking.

* Syndication of site content via [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] and [[Atom (standard)|Atom]].

* A robust plugin architecture which allows the addition of features to any part of the system, including the administrative backend.

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* [https://docs.textpattern.com/ Textpattern CMS User Documentation]: Textpattern CMS user documentation.

* [https://docs.textpattern.com/tags/ Textpattern CMS Tag Reference]: Tag reference of all Textpattern tags (with code examples).

* [https://plugins.textpattern.orgcom/ Textpattern Plugins]: Textpattern plugin repository.

* [http://txpmag.com/ TXP] The internet magazine about Textpattern CMS and web related themes.

* [https://textpattern.tips/ Textpattern Tips]: Collection of ready to use code snippets and examples of ingeniously combined tags.

* [httphttps://txplanet.net/ Textpattern Planet]: Textpattern news aggregator.

* [http://txpq.com/ TXPQ Magazine]: Articles and interviews relating to Textpattern.

* [http://txplanet.net/ Textpattern Planet]: Textpattern news aggregator.

* [http://textpattern.ivorius.com/ Textpattern Czech]: Czech language Textpattern information site.

* [http://textpattern.ru/ Textpattern Russian]: Russian language Textpattern information site.

* [httphttps://txptag.org/ txp:tag]: Textpattern Tags

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