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- brozilla
or Movable Type?
Anyone have any experience with either of these?
- zarprey0
I use Textpattern but if you're looking for something that's slick and easy to use MT is probably the way to go. TXP is still a bit rough around the edges in a lot of ways...but you can do a ton with it if you're at all familiar with PHP and there are a bunch of plugins out there for it.
- brozilla0
so, if im a php noob, i should probably go with MT...?
I'm noticing that Textpattern is knda all over the place as far as resources go.
they pretty much have the same basic features?
- zarprey0
Not necessarily. What are you using it for? If it's a simple blog, TXP is probably easier to set up initially. It just depends on what you're using it for.
They're both good. MT has been around longer so it's more developed but TXP has a ton of people working on it so it's getting closer and closer to MT in terms of usability and such. Plus TXP has an awesome forum.
I'm obviously biased though.
- jackfoley0
Don't mean to hijack your thread but I had a similar question. I'm about to start work on a movie review site, so so I would like there to be a way to look through the archive of reviews by date, title, etc and possibly a search option as well. I don't really know anything about backend stuff (php, mysql). Would either of these work? Which one would be better?
- zarprey0
Either of these would work for what you want. Right out of the box they all have a basic template with basic options like search and all of that.
MT doesn't need a Database to run (I think by default it runs in a flat files or something). TXP does need a database to run.
Setting up MT can be a little tricky or at least it was the first time I installed it (but that was awhile ago the install process might be easier now).
TXP is simple to install as long as you know your login info for your databse and all (should be provided by your host)
The difference is MT might be easier to customize than TXP but for a simple blog either would work.
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I like keeping up with Oliver.
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if this thread isnt about NoPattern i simply do not care.
- ants0
not to put anything irrelevant into the thread but have a look at WordPress too.
- vb_0
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