What is Textpattern?
Textpattern is an open source content management system and blogging platform built with PHP and MySQL. It has been around since 2004 and has an active community behind it.
Some key features of Textpattern include:
- Simple and lightweight admin interface for managing all site content
- Support for multiple sites and blogs within one installation
- Flexible template system allowing deep customization of themes/layouts
- Tags for categorizing and relating content
- Plugin architecture to extend functionality
- Built-in search engine optimization features
- Multilingual and localization capabilities
Textpattern is designed to make creating and publishing text-focused web content easy for users of any technical skill level. The admin allows you to write and structure your pages and posts however you want without getting in the way. Themes control the presentation and can be customized to achieve nearly any page layout.
It may not have all the bells & whistles of WordPress or other heavier CMS options, but Textpattern excels at text publishing. It's a great option for personal sites, blogs, documentation, magazines and more. An active plugin ecosystem expands what's possible out of the box as well.