Textpattern Tips

A how-to guide for integrating the Disqus commenting service into Textpattern, replacing the in-built comments system.

TXP Tips has been relaunched with some fresh paint, an updated look and some changes under the hood.

Sometimes all you want is to be able to sort your articles manually. Here’s how to do it using the glz_custom_fields plugin.

Ever wanted to upload images via the Write tab into the TinyMCE editor? Well now you can, thanks to this superb tutorial from Gil Goldshlager (The Blue Dragon) which utilises four plugins and some custom JS. Enjoy!

Simple but effective way to place a list of images in the article_image field without using any plugins.

Textpattern offers so much flexibility for designers and developers. In this tutorial, Jorge Hernández shows us how to use the smd_macro to create a custom Textpattern tag for dynamically marking up an image layout.

A very practical and useful example of protecting or displaying content based on a user’s privilege level from Zero.

Gil Goldshlager aka The Blue Dragon with a killer tutorial for creating your own custom UI elements in the Write tab. Read on!

etc delves into his etc_query plugin once again to create conditional tag attributes.

How to sort articles using the image id stored in an article’s custom field, courtesy of Yiannis Colakides.

Dale Chapman was looking for a way to turn a bunch of article custom fields into a table. See the results of his efforts!

Here’s how to hide articles at a given time of the day using Textpattern variables, courtesy of Marc Carson.

Create an archive tree by year and month with article counts – brought to you by etc.

etc is back with another great tip for creating Google like pagination for articles, using his plugins etc_url and etc_query.

With a little help from his friends, Zero brings us a method for displaying an image gallery which is accessible on all devices.

Output next/prev links that display articles based on a custom field list rather than article post date – etc solves the problem with the aid of XPath and his etc_query plugin.

Dale Chapman serves up some code for forcing a user’s browser to use updated CSS automatically.

Marc Carson created a video to help users understand how to use Textpattern in-built image tag builder.

A great little tip on custom page titles from the Superawesøme boys!

Develop your Textpattern sites with the aid of a super workflow tool – cnk_versioning. Alan Bristow takes us through the steps of setting up the plugin for your site.