It´s quite a while ago since Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast posted her article on TXP vs EE – but it is still a nice read.

I really like EE and considered it once for a project. It is a bit like TXP but has a wider functionallity and a better rights management system. The key question is: do you really need that for a project? If not, your clients are surely happier with TXPs administration surface.

Well go over to Andreas site and read her write-up.

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• Textpattern vs ExpressionEngine

• ExpressionEngine

We are curious :). We like to know which your favourite Open Source CMS is. Select one of the suggested and vote or type in your preferred one (see orange bar…

Just a couple of minutes ago, TXP 4.0.4 was released. Some nice news are: tagbuilder and UI are updated next to bugs and lots of other issues. Find the complete list of updates on the dev blog.

Thanks to wet (Robert Wetzlmayr) the Wikis taglist is more or less up to date too. Karsten Hesemann was so kind to update the german textpattern tag list.

This time many helping hands were involved in testing, sending patches and adding language files. Thanks to all who contributed!

For everybody who likes the CMS ExpressionEngine this will be happy news: in October Jamie Pittock and friends launch a new online magazine called Jambor- EE.

Regular issues of the magazine will feature extensive tutorial series and articles on EE, while the team will be updating the magazine’s blog daily with tips, how-tos, news, and opinion.

Head on over to Jambor-EE and sign up.

After six weeks and registering almost twelve thousand nominations, the Open Source CMS Award finalists can be revealed. The following final five received the most public nominations during the course of the six weeks and are listed in alphabetical order:

• Drupal
• e107
• Joomla
• Plone
• Xoops

Congratulations to these finalists! The result was extremely close with very few votes separating the finalists. These five will now go through to a final stage of voting, with the eventual winner being announced on November 14. A panel of independent judges and votes taken from visitors to www.PacktPub.com will go towards deciding the eventual winner. Voting will commence on September 12 and will run until November.

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Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Award 2006

If you seek some OS CMS software and consider using Wordpress because you have heard so much of WP(Wordpress) read through 2 articles just published by Ang Zhuu Ming on the blogHelper blog:

• 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS

• 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress as CMS

Both articles belong to Ang Zhuu Ming´s current WP series:

1 Fundamental Theory

• What is “Using WordPress as CMS”?
• 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS (see link above)

2 Fundamental Technical Stuff

• How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress
• Advanced Customization of WordPress Permalink Structure

3 All-in-One Guides

• How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site – Part 1

Not to promote Textpattern i rather advice clients not o use WP as a CMS but TXP or some other real CMS like Drupal. With TXP you have sections which make it deadeasy to set up a CMS assigning f. e. static content.

All software have their pros and cons. Though WP is – no question – a great blogging app; it is by nature no CMS. Why go through all the hassle with searching for the right plugins, hacking the backend and reading through pages of tutorials? Rather save your time and dedicate to learning a solid CMS.

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Textpattern versus Wordpress

In the publishing arena of Web design books, Peach Pit Press/New Riders and Friends of ED (an Apress company) are probably the names most recognized on a bookshelf, but Packt Publishing, more than any other publisher I am aware of, makes as much of an effort to support the open source community as it does the authors of its books.

For example, for each book…

On the very last day of 2005 WordPress 2.0 was released and gained immediate attention. Matt Mullenweg and his team put a lot of effort in a complete redesigned backend, bringing a smooth WYSIWYG editing experience to WordPress and assigning some AJAX to the admin interface. As usual bugs were located and fixed for the 2.0.1 release on Jan 31.

By now even TXP users are impressed by WP. Some intend even to switch or, as Peter Flaschner did, switched already. Time to investigate the differences between TXP and WP.

Some history first
WordPress´s roots and development go …