Textpattern : the CMS

I had choosed textpattern for the site GoWayanad.com after comparing various CMSes. I found that TXP aka textpattern to be pretty neat and light weight. It doesn't have all those flashy features other CMSes like Joomla offer. But since the site is going to static, I won't be needing all those flashy features. And ofcourse, as the number of lines of code increases the bugs also increases.

Anyway I had to burn high amounts of brain fuel to get used to Textpattern. Getting used to writing articles, the concept of presentation, content, forms etc were very confusing in the beginning.

Given below are few links which gave me the basic understanding of TXP

• TextPattern Semantics
• A very detailed diagram with the relationships by mattmoss

Then I noticed that Firefox is not auto detecting the RSS feed. How to make feed aggregators auto detect the textpattern RSS feed ? I googled and there were no proper results. anyway, I noted that the directive

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="rss" 
href="http://gowayanad.com/index.php?rss=1" />

is missing in the 'head' section. Added it in the head section of the presentation > Pages I am using and it started working.

Helpful FAQ : http://textpattern.com/faq/280/troubleshooting-feed-issues

(I will keep updating this blog post with various tips and tricks regarding textpattern. )