PremekBrada: TextpatternEvaluation

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Evaluation of the Textpattern CMS

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Summary

Details

Evaluated version: gamma 1.18a (April 2004)

Size OK
unzipped size [0.5MB], plug-in architecture [yes], coverage of items below [most].
Platform OK
structured PHP [yes], MySQL? [yes]
Install and setup OK
time to go operational [5min], web-based config [all], multiple sites in one CMS instance [yes]
Plain text edit OK
wiki-like input [no], textile [yes] (textile native, same author ;-)
WYSIWYG editing KO
wysiwyg [no], configurable [n/a] -- maybe could hack txp core.
Generated HTML OK
valid XHTML [yes] (partly depends on template used).
Templating OK
user control [variable-template], website section differentiation [yes], snippet templates [yes].
Domain-specific applications OK
mechanism for app inclusion [both].
User management OK
users and roles [roles], user groups with privileges [no].
Content structuring OK
hierarchical content [multilevel], hierarchical URL [complex-rewrite], hierarchical presentation [blog/tweaks].
Localization OK
L10N? and I18N? issues separate in implementation [yes].
Metadata OK
can set metadata [page], metadata supported [keywords] -- but see grumbles.
URL features OK
link contents [id/titles] (can choose in setup), search-engine friendly URLs? [tweaks] -- via .htaccess content type forcing.
Archiving KO
supports archiving (rather than deleting) old content [no], content is versioned [no].
Statistics so-so
usage stats gathered [yes], can create polls [no].
Documentation so-so
templating manual [rough], programming manual [rough].

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