Comments on: Switch to WordPress

By: Sushubh

Sushubh — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:10:46 +0000

Yeah right, I tried moving on to Blog:CMS with spactacular results. The developer abuses users who ask for support. And he demands that the first thing you do after waking up, is to thank him for his 1000 hours of work!

http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2004/08/17/blog-cms-and-wordpress/

By: rADo

rADo — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:55:06 +0000

maybe it’s too late, but you might have a look into WordPress into BLOG:CMS convertor http://blogcms.com/extra/download – BLOG:CMS has quite a lot of features WordPress is missing..

By: Brad Froehle

Brad Froehle — Mon, 24 May 2004 03:44:35 +0000

Jack, you are totally correct. I’m subscribed to the “Textpattern Development Blog”:http://textpattern.com/dev/, and there was a post today “clarifying the licensing”:http://textpattern.com/dev/article/10/textpattern-is-open-source-software. While Dean had previously mentioned that it would remain free for personal use, he had never really indicated what license it was under. For that matter, the licensing is still quite vague.

That said, Textpattern and WordPress suit different niches in the same audience. WordPress for the GPL fanatics and people looking for something that’s a little tougher to totally customize but has a more intuitive backend; and TextPattern for those who want total control of everything at the cost of additional time spent.

I must admit, the one feature of TextPattern I really miss is the “half-baked pages” that it produced. TextPattern saved the body of the post as both the format you typed it in (ie, Textile) and the ‘compiled’ form (ie, straight HTML). This allowed for faster page rebuilds as the whole Textile engine wouldn’t have to be called for every post whenever a page was requested–only once when the article was saved.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 24 May 2004 02:35:19 +0000

I am a (former) WordPress user who migrated the other way (to Textpattern). I enjoy both of them, but wanted to clarify your statement about Textpattern having a “non-free” license. From a post by Dean to the textpattern forums…

bq. “Let me state clearly that Textpattern is not going the way of paid licensing mitigated with free-as-in-beer crippleware, nor will it ever.

As of version g1.19, Textpattern is free, open-source software.

It is also available under a commercial license which permits proprietary usage, free of any obligation to release changes to the source code under an open-source license.

This dual-licensing model (similar to those used by MySQL, Trolltech, and others ) is intended to keep options open for everybody who wishes to use Texpattern, from an individual weblog publisher to a multinational corporation.”

I had the same concerns as you, but no more. Have fun.

By: Brad Froehle » Blogware Choice

Brad Froehle » Blogware Choice — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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