Creating a Gallery in Textpattern

Textpattern allows many methods for accomplishing the same thing. Many methods for developing an image gallery now exist. The puzzling thing for me has always been the lack of support for default tags available to access the basic content contained in the database for images. There are no native tags for thumbnails and capitions for whatever reason, for example, txp:article_thumb and txp:image_caption.

Thankfully, there are plugins that can perform these functions and others in developing a means of displaying images and thumbnail galleries.

Following is a list of examples of galleries built with Textpattern:

The best implementations of the gallery seem to be based on issue 170 from A List Apart by Jeremy Keith. Jeremy has an article about developing a Javascript Image Gallery on his site.

There are also several examples of how one might accomplish an image gallery on the Textpattern Forum.

And there are some articles at Textpattern Resources:

comments | date posted posted Saturday December 3, 2005

Multiple Textpattern Installations

I have been wondering whether it might be possible to get around the problem of not being able to use a section/category/title URL scheme in a default install of Textpattern without using plugins.

Dean Allen’s article on the subject of multiple installations Textpattern Forum dates back about a year ago. I thought I might just try this out.

From what I can tell, this technique no longer works. The FAQ on the Textpattern site seems to reiterate this.

comments | date posted posted Saturday December 3, 2005

Symphony 1.0

(One hint for those using Textpattern: don’t start your post with a link. With Textile on, the paragraph tags are stripped.)

Symphony will be release December 7. Existing customers receive the preview a week early. There should be benefits for those who have been anticipating this event for close to a year.

comments | date posted posted Monday November 28, 2005

Joyent Acquires TextDrive

Things seemed quite at TextDrive, but something was rising from the deep. A jellyfish.

Joyent, builder of Ruby on Rails applications, has acquired TextDrive, the company that grew out of a need for web servers that just worked, especially with open source applications such as Textpattern. Justin French redesigned the TextDrive site.

comments | date posted posted Monday November 28, 2005

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