What kind of tips interest you?
Since the inception of TXP Tips some 50 or so days ago, we have published 24 TXP Tips, ranging from simple to advanced examples.
Happily, the feedback from the Textpattern community has been very positive, and it seems that TXP Tips fills a much needed void for many users looking for examples when building their TXP powered sites.
So – moving forward, are there any particular examples you might be interested in? Galleries, TXP tags, plugins, templates?
Please send in any feedback or comments! And if you have something to share with the rest of the community, please use the submit button!
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Willie Ray
# 16 November 2008
I would like to see examples of using forms to page, not necessary for blogs but for Portfolio-Design layouts. I really love Textpattern.
Once 4.07 comes out I will change my site over. Until than I will keep using it on my local machine to understand the tagging system. Keep up the good work.
Simon
# 18 November 2008
I’lld like to see an article about creating a textpattern based ecommerce site, also any tips on how to write a basic plugin
John Stephens
# 20 November 2008
* Tips for rapid development * Using txp for forum/discussions * proposals for developer “best practices” and useful design conventions
Jonathan Stubbs
# 23 November 2008
@ James – some tips are aimed at first-time users, and if it helpful for them that is a good thing. Useful is relative to your needs. If you have some “advanced” tips of your own, please feel free to submit them for everyone else’s benefit.
Willie Ray
# 1 December 2008
I’d like to see tut on static landing/homepage with seperate news/blog page. Thanks again for the work you done here.
Hi Jonathan,
Just discovered your site. Very helpful and clear advice. My hat off!
How about an article showing how visitors to a textpattern site can change the number of articles they see in a list by using a dropdown menu with options (5, 10, 15, 20 articles for example)?
I think the new variable tag and some simple javascript should make that possible..
Marie Poulin
# 12 February 2009
I’d love to see more image functionality & galleries,
Theming the Textpattern interface, and more navigation tips.
Jonathan Stubbs
# 1 March 2009
@Marie – try this newly published tip on Theming the Admin interface
@Hennie – would tru_tags be of help to you? If not, can you explain in more detail what you need?
I looked at tru_tags, but in my opinion it’s not what I am looking for:
Every image can now belong to just one image-category. I would like to add categories to every image so I can show images by different entries.
In my case I have to show a lot of paintings. There are oilpaintings, drawings, gouaches, etc. But I (also) want to show them by subjects like ‘nudes’, ‘self-portrait’ of ‘lanscapes’.
Sorry for my English, it’s not my native language and thanks for your reply. I like this site very much, the TXP-forum is sometimes too complicated.
Maniquí
# 2 March 2009
Hennie, off the top of my head: you may want to look at combining the following set of plugins: smd_gallery, smd_each and smd_if.
If you post your request at TXP forum, we may work out together the necessary code, and then, it could be converted into a new cool TXP Tip ;)
James
# 16 November 2008
Useful and semi-advanced ones?
(not those where you put google analytics in a form and call it a tip…)