TXP Tips in the Articles category:
Implementing Facebook services on Textpattern articles via FBML
In this comprehensive and useful tutorial, Phil Wareham shows us how to implement Facebook services in your Textpattern articles.
Adding social media buttons to Textpattern
Marc Carson shows us how to add popular social media buttons to your Textpattern install.
Display the next article with an associated image
Guillaume Stricher follows up his previous tip with a method of displaying articles which have an image associated with them.
Display sticky articles first in an article list
This tip features a method of displaying a sticky article first followed by live articles.
List articles from a specific category on a landing page
Els – TXP’s own “Queen of Tags” – is back with a tip for listing a series of articles from a specific category on a landing page.
Articles from matching days or months
How to display a list of posts from other years with matching months and days.
Filter article lists using drop-down select menus
Filter your article list using multiple custom field drop-down select menus.
Custom article styling
How to assign a custom CSS stylesheet for your individual articles.
Vertical scrolling news headline ticker
Make a vertical-scrolling news ticker, showing headlines (titles) of your articles one at a time that allow visitors to click straight to an article of interest.
Most commented articles
Display a list of articles based on the number of posted comments, optionally limited to a specific time frame.
Custom article groups in Textpattern
For when you need more control than categories and the <txp:related_articles /> tag provide..
Show teaser from a future article
How to display a teaser from a future article to your audience – with or without a plugin.
Display section sensitive articles and category title
Fetch and display section sensitive articles along with the category title.
Apply a style to every third article in a list
Apply a different style to every third article in a list of articles.
Article lists with alternate backgrounds
Change the background for your article lists – odd and even colours.
Multi-lingual articles in Textpattern
TXP developer Robert Wetzlmayr’s “poor man solution” for creating multi-lingual articles.
Related articles with custom fields
Fine control the output of related articles using this tip.
Create a friendly invite to Tweet your articles
Render an invitation to Tweet your articles and display a pre-formatted TinyURL link within Twitter.
Display the published and modified dates
This tip will display the published date and, only if article has been changed, the last modified date article.
Highlight the active article title
Highlight the current article title on any page with some simple code.
Adding keywords meta
Add page or article specific keywords using a custom field.
Turn off Textile in your article
How to turn off Textile if you want to enter HTML tags in your article.
