Powered by Textpattern
I use Textpattern to run this site, arguably the best open source web publishing system available. I’ve been using it 4 years running and find no reason to switch yet. There’s a elegance and efficiency to Textpattern like a fine Aurora pen; it’s hard to use anything else once you get accustomed.
Installed Plugins
Textpattern’s core engine is a marvel on its own, but the Textpattern community produces some outstanding plugins to extend functionality for whatever you need. Of course needed functionality is a very subjective thing, and I personally find some of the simplest plugins to offer the most mileage. For example, Ramanan Sivaranjan‘s rsx_plugins_list plugin automatically produces a list of all plugins a Textpattern site owner has installed; perfect for lists like here:
- smd_where_used 0.18 by Stef Dawson
- Find which forms/pages/articles/plugins/text have been used where in your design [active]
- rss_admin_show_adv_opts 0.2 by Rob Sable
- Automatically expand article advanced options. [active]
- zem_article_info 0.1 by Threshold State
- Word count and article link for article edit pages [active]
- rsx_plugins_list 1.0 by Ramanan Sivaranjan
- Display a list of plugins currently installed. [active]
- zem_prblock 0.1 by Threshold State
- Applies PR blocking to outgoing links, to reduce the incentive for comment spam [active]
- ajw_clean_feed 0.2 by Andrew Waer
- Extends Atom & RSS functionality to allow for /clean/feed/urls [active]
- hak_article_image 0.6.3 by Patrick Woods
- Extended Article Image tag [inactive]
- ied_plugin_composer 0.4 by Yura Linnyk
- Write and publish plugins easily [inactive]
- yab_image 0.2 by Tommy Schmucker
- Tiny image replacement that allows you to display an image with an assigned caption. [active]
- zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.20 by TXP Community
- Form mailer for Textpattern [active]
- zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.6 by TXP Community
- Language plug-in for Zem Contact Reborn [active]
- rah_autogrowing_textarea 0.2 by Jukka Svahn
- Autogrowing textareas to Textpattern's backend [active]
- wet_commentmagic 0.5 by Robert Wetzlmayr
- A text matching and replacing filter for comment messages. [active]
- wet_babble 0.2 by Robert Wetzlmayr
- Injects custom i18n strings, potentially overriding some built-ins [active]
Joyent Hosting
Wion is hosted by Joyent, and will likely remain that way since I have a lifetime account with them on a shared Accelerator (something they call their servers). As long as Joyent stays in business and stays true to it’s lifetime members, I shouldn’t have need of new hosting services again.