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6.23.4

Textpattern

Textpattern assumes that it is installed in the root of your site (e.g. http://geegaw.com/), so when I installed it into a subdirectory and run the configuration script, I found image links broken and CSS missing: <img src=/images/1.jpg> It turns out there is a secondary set of settings under "Admin" in the web UI. It doesn't seem that it would be difficult to implement subdirectory detection in the config script; I guess it's just one of those things about new software, that you forget that you need to bother.

My other quibble: that you can't disable or edit the Atom feed to remove your email address. I will probably edit the code manually and completely forget to patch that change in the next time I upgrade Textpattern.

Aside from these usability issues, there are a bunch of novel ideas in here... The default HTML/CSS templates are significantly cleaner and easier to adapt than MT's, and the Comments Disabled After... [1 week - 6 weeks] feature is a very, very good idea. Finally, the PHP-based functionality eliminates the annoying rebuilds which have littered my shell with unused files, ghosts of deleted entries, etc. Much more so than blogger (pah) or Drupal (vomit), this is the first serious contender to the Movable Type throne. (Sorry E.)

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it's all mine... all of it. and you can have it all. all of it. such that i would have none of it. none of all of it.

well it looks as if somebody's beginning to see the light! dis-moi, how *does* it feel to be loved?

I wish you'd come visit me and not talk about art with me.

In the night I want my coffee / And in the morning I want my dope / But in the afternoon I'm drinking / At the new house of the Pope

nostalgia for miss gaw: "coffee in the morning, and wine in the evening, and everything else is boring, boring."




geegaw.com is pulled out of the maw of Miranda Gaw. :: design in debt to iiiii
Adding an errand to your errand. Saying, "Since you're up . . ." Making you a means to A means to a means to