We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Textpattern CMS 4.9.0 beta.1 for testing.

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.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Textpattern CMS 4.8.8.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Textpattern CMS 4.8.8 beta for testing.

Team Textpattern announces our intention to release one or more beta candidates of Textpattern 4.8.8 before the production release.

Go beyond the page in Textpattern 4.8, with sections that have no visible content. What?! Have the developers gone crazy? How does shadowy content hiding behind the front page help? Join us as we expose what it can do for you and your websites.

Real or imaginary, art or fiction, the J. R. Hartley of Textpattern has graced websites for a decade. Would the real Donald Swain please stand up.

Among the sun-drenched skyscrapers of Olde London Town, some virtual strangers with only Textpattern in common met in a pub. With just beer, handheld devices and a network close by, what could they possibly talk about?

What happens when you wedge four geeks in a room? Surprisingly little in tangible output, but some great codeworthy exploration and daft pictures. Find out how the North Bristol Textpattern meetup went down.

As Textpattern 4.3.0 draws nearer to a release, it’s time to look forward a little to Textpattern 5. This weblog entry holds important information — especially for plugin authors and admin themers — to help gear up now for the proposed changes in Textpattern 5.

Most, if not all changes in the parser affect its speed. Generally speaking, more features means lower speed, but optimizing other parts of the parser can compensate this. In this second article about the new parser in Textpattern CMS 4.0.7, I’ll discuss the various changes to the parser, the impact they have on parsing speed and how you can optimize templates for speed.

There’s one thing that any software developer, experienced or noob, would tell you: The real difficulties in software design aren’t buried deeply inside an Algorithm Bible/Quran/Torah/{insert your manifest of choice here}.