Textpattern Tips

Show a placeholder image when an image is missing

By Hilary Quinn

29 June 2019 Images, TXP tags

What happens when you delete an image via Textpattern’s Content › Images pane but the image is still used elsewhere as an article image? This tip shows you how to show a placeholder image when no image is available.

Embed audio files using native tags

By Yiannis Colakides

28 December 2018 Short-tags, TXP tags

The code creates a container for audio-files which can then be embedded in the articles using short-tags.

Outputting an .ics calendar file from a Textpattern article

By Julian Reisenberger

15 November 2017 Tutorials, Dates and times

Have you ever wanted your site’s visitors to be able to download the date of an event(s) to their computer’s calendar? This tip shows you how to provide a downloadable .ics files for calendar apps from details stored in your Textpattern article.

Pick the right video embedding plugin

By Nicolas Morand

18 January 2017 Media, Plugins

A helpful comparison of the current video and media playing plugins for Textpattern from Nicolas Morand.

Allow website users to set defined variable values

By Nicolas Morand

29 May 2016 PHP and code, Plugins

Nicolas Morand shares his plugin features that allow website users to select and sort articles on the front end.

Creating a custom bookmarklet to grow your link collection

By Marc Carson

23 July 2015 Links

Looking to create your own link bookmarklet system? Marc Carson shows us how to do it!

Shuffle a list

By Oleg

21 July 2015 Coding, PHP and code

Oleg helps a community user to output linked article images in random order rather than by article order.

Summer 2015 fund raiser for Textpattern

By Jonathan Stubbs

8 July 2015 News

The first Summer Textpattern Developers fund raising event is now open!

Site links in SSL

By Jonathan Stubbs

1 May 2015 PHP and code, Tutorials

Here’s a simple snippet to add to your config.php file that changes your site links to secure HTTPS using SSL.

Output of expired articles

By Jonathan Stubbs

19 April 2015 Articles, TXP tags

Tweaking the display of your expired articles can be a bit of a chore, try these examples for some ideas.

Migrate a TXP database using the Terminal and FTP

By Yiannis Colakides

8 April 2015 Tutorials

A step by step generic tutorial on how you can migrate a large database using SSH.

Simple page titles

By Jonathan Stubbs

7 April 2015 TXP tags, Tutorials

A useful snippet if you like to customise your page titles in Textpattern. Helpful for SEO!

Christmas 2014 fund raiser for Textpattern developers

By Jonathan Stubbs

3 December 2014 News

The Christmas 2014 Textpattern Developers fund raising event is now open!

Front-end edit link

By Gary Venter

14 April 2014 Admin

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

Distraction free writing environment for Textpattern

By Thomas Jund

25 February 2014 Admin, PHP and code

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.

Front end articles sorting

By Nicolas Morand

27 January 2014 Tutorials, Articles

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.

Copyright dates

By Yiannis Colakides

13 January 2014 PHP and code

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

Easy multilingual navigation

By Oleg

15 December 2013 Multi-lingual

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.

Christmas 2013 fund for Textpattern developers

By Jonathan Stubbs

6 December 2013 News

The Christmas 2013 Textpattern Developers fund raiser event is open!

RSS feeds for tags

By Claire Brione

4 May 2013 Feeds

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

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