opensourcecms.com),
which allows the public to try out free, open source CMSs. Since all software is automatically
reinstalled every 2 hours, visitors can experiment freely. The open source solutions
described following??”Textpattern, WordPress, and Drupal??”are all available to test drive
on the site.
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Textpattern
Textpattern is a free, open source, PHP-powered CMS.7 Despite the proliferation of similar
products, the power of Textpattern lies in its elegant separation of content and structure,
the simplicity of its templating system, the wide developer and user network, and the
library of plug-ins that extend the core system.
One of the great draws to Textpattern is its well-designed administrative interface (shown
in Figure 9-5). The system allows for several types of roles and permission levels, so a
group of users may have one master publisher, several writers without publishing capability,
system admins, and designers. The architecture is virtually transparent??”templates are
100 percent customized by the designer without any built-in code, so the CMS can blend
in with any site.
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