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December 07, 2006

For the past three weeks, I have been trying out text pattern as a CMS. I want to clarify my headline by saying that text pattern is a great cms/blogging tool. It's just that it isn't the right tool for the project that I am working on.

Installing and configuring textpattern was an absolute breeze. I found a ton of support groups and modules that I could use to get the most out of the cms. Standards support and css customization was extremely easy to implement on this open source application.

The biggest problem that I ran in to was the inability to create sub sections. For example, I needed to have /site/books/drama/something.html and all that was available was /site/books/something.html. I'm sure their is a way around this, but I didn't want to get in to the whole, I have a new CMS tool that I love but have to customize it to meet my needs. This road block gave me an immediate bad taste and I decided to code the CMS myself.

In the end, I have to say that text pattern is my new favorite blogging tool and I will probably use it for smaller sites. If you are working on larger news sites or are creating a website that requires a relatively deep site structure, look elsewhere.