Textpattern 4.2.0
Fast and Simple Installation
Less than half an hour ago I downloaded the Textpattern 4.2.0 release from the Textpattern site and here we are up and running with the default site.
I am configuring it using the new Multi-Site functionality.
Somewhere between downloading and finishing the install I registered the domain www.callenb.org with Bytemark who are my trusty hosting company. At the time of writing this article I haven’t updated the nameservers to point here, but that will come soon. In the meantime the real name of my machine http://ellfin.vm.bytemark.co.uk will point here. In fact I might leave it to point here.
So What Now?
Once callenb.org is pointing here I will have to update the URL in Textpatern and will probably start transforming the site. I can honestly say that as I write I have come straight here and published this note. Over the coming weeks and months I will be making changes to the site and will document just what it is I have been doing. Hopefully I will learn a little bit about Textpattern along the way, and maybe some of it will be useful to anyone who reads this.
As well as discussing the development of this site and others, I will write about other stuff, that may attract a different audience.
My Textpattern Experience
I first used Textpattern on my hardly touched Ellfin.org where I shamelessly used the White and Wild theme from Wilshire:One . (I’ve just checked both my site and his and neither are working for some reason).
I also put together the Kinley Consulting site which I enjoyed. It’s still on 4.0.7 of Textpattern.
So I would describe myself as a Novice Textpattern user with an awful lot to learn. I only hope it can help others over time. One thing for sure, it will be an adventure.