Team Textpattern announces our intention to support PHP 8.4.0 and MySQL 8.4 with the release of Textpattern 4.9.0. We will release one or more beta candidates of Textpattern 4.9.0 before the general availability Textpattern release, which will follow the general availability release of PHP 8.4.0.

Twenty years ago today, on the 24th February 2004, the first public gamma of Textpattern was released. And everything was going to be alright.

Language string handling has evolved over the years. This overview will help site administrators and plugin authors to take advantage of the language features on offer.

Team Textpattern wish to thank FundOSS for selecting Textpattern CMS to be a part of its pilot match funding program for open source software, along with the 52 donors who kindly contributed to our collective.

The very first FundOSS democratic match funding initiative is underway and Textpattern is part of it!

Who knew that one random click in search results could change my outlook on the way content is managed and lead me on such a journey, for so long.

The upcoming Textpattern 4.9 release will include some notable changes that affect older systems, including web servers running older versions of PHP and computers using Internet Explorer.

Join us as we take a look into the immediate future at what the next version of Textpattern after 4.7.3 is likely to resemble.

Ask anyone new to Textpattern what its one deficiency is compared to the competition, and the answer is usually “Where are the Themes?” We finally have an answer to that.

What’s that coming over the hill; is it a r… r… r… roadmap? When I made the speculative forum post about meeting up face-to-face with Textpattern CMS users and developers earlier this year, I had no idea how it would turn out.

Once upon a time, in a Twitter conversation far, far away, Robert Wetzlmayr (Textpattern’s lead developer) asked me what my exit plan was for when time came to depart as editor-in-chief of TXP Magazine. I think he picked up on some Twitter ranting, or something…

The meta description HTML tag is still going strong, yet Textpattern CMS needs a plugin or custom field to use it. Not any more!