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with a community emphasis as the main goal. At this moment, there has not yet been an official release of xPattern.
Meanwhile, development of Textpattern continued with releases 4.0.6 through 4.0.8 containing more new features
than the small increment in version numbers seems to suggest. Many of those that once joined the xPattern effort, are
now contributing patches to Textpattern again.
Features
Textpattern offers a number of features and conveniences to users, site administrators and developers, including:
• Ease of publishing using Textile, a text-to-HTML converter which permits users to publish content without
learning HTML.
• Preview of both the final "look" of content and of its XHTML.
• Standards-compliant XHTML and CSS "out of the box", with all layout in the default setup handled via
stylesheets.
• A tag-based template system which allows the creation of reusable blocks of content and code, referred to as
"forms", and a built-in "tag builder" to automate their creation.
• A privilege-based user hierarchy, allowing for an organized structure of writers, editors and publishers to work
easily in concert.
• A commenting system, including several measures to combat spam.
• Built-in site statistics, including referrer tracking.
• Syndication of site content via RSS and Atom.
• A robust plugin architecture which allows the addition of features to any part of the system, including the
administrative backend.
• A built-in CSS editor.
• An integrated link management system.
• An integrated image management system which allows the association of images with particular pieces of
content.
• An integrated file management system which allows files to be offered for download.
• Separation of content from presentation with a concept of "sections" defined for presentation and "categories" for
content organization.
• UTF-8 publishing and support for many languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Czech, Japanese,
Estonian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, Slovenian, Indonesian, Swedish,
Icelandic, Russian and Greek (including support for polytonic).
• Unlike most other blogging software, Textpattern does not natively support Pingback or Trackback.
See also
• Comparison of content management systems
• Comparison of lightweight markup languages
• Textile — lightweight rich text markup language and text-to-HTML converter.
External links
• Official Textpattern Website [12]
• Textpattern Development [13] : Development timeline and source code repository.
• Textpattern Forum [14] : Textpattern support forum.
• TextBook [15] : Textpattern documentation wiki.
• Textpattern Resources [16] : Site listing tips, tutorials, plugins and templates.
• Textgarden [17] : "Out-of-the-box" Textpattern template site (started in July 2005).