TXP Tips

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Gary Venter chips in with a great little tip for creating front-end links to your articles and images.

Distraction free writing environments are great for authors and there are plenty of apps to help you focus on writing. Thomas Jund shows us how to create this environment for the Textpattern Write tab.

Custom article sorting has been a common request over the years. With this tutorial, Nicolas Morand brings us a way to select and sort articles on the front end.

Yiannis returns with his method for returning the current year in an article’s copyright notice.

Oleg is a talented plugin developer and a dedicated community member. In this tip, Oleg demonstrates a way of creating a multilingual menu using the etc_url plugin.

The Christmas 2013 Textpattern Developers fund raiser event is open!

Claire Brione returns with another RSS feed solution for your Textpattern powered sites.

Textpattern Developer Jukka Svahn (gocom) shows us a PHP-based method for displaying a warning to users that cookies may be set in order to comply with EU legislation. This method allows the user to tick a box to remove the warning message in the future.

Yiannis presents a simple solution for randomising content using the link list tag, in this case for a Vimeo album collection.

A how-to guide for integrating the Disqus commenting service into Textpattern, replacing the in-built comments system.

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Sometimes all you want is to be able to sort your articles manually. Here’s how to do it using the glz_custom_fields plugin.

Ever wanted to upload images via the Write tab into the TinyMCE editor? Well now you can, thanks to this superb tutorial from Gil Goldshlager (The Blue Dragon) which utilises four plugins and some custom JS. Enjoy!

Simple but effective way to place a list of images in the article_image field without using any plugins.

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Textpattern offers so much flexibility for designers and developers. In this tutorial, Jorge Hernández shows us how to use the smd_macro to create a custom Textpattern tag for dynamically marking up an image layout.

A very practical and useful example of protecting or displaying content based on a user’s privilege level from Zero.

Gil Goldshlager aka The Blue Dragon with a killer tutorial for creating your own custom UI elements in the Write tab. Read on!

etc delves into his etc_query plugin once again to create conditional tag attributes.