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.

We have recently made some minor changes (the latest just a few hours ago) to the plugin compiler and the template.

One of the newer conditional tags added to Textpattern – if_different – allows to display date based contents in our sites without trouble.

I guess everybody saw it coming. Now it’s official: Google Blogsearch is here.

Some people are wondering whether they should be using subversion to always get the most current version or wether they should stick to official releases.

We are happy to note, that for most people upgrading or installing the recently released version of Textpattern is working well.