Until today I have never really spent time customising this blog, so today spent quite a few hours playing with the Wordpress plugins and I was very impressed with what what is available and can see why it is so popular as a blogging engine.

Well another open source Blog/CMS I’ve been playing with is Textpattern which was created by Dean Allen with the first stable release of of Textpattern being released in August 2005. That’s enough history but what I will say about Textpattern is it is at the very least, definitely worth considering for you next web project.

Anyway after adding social bookmarking to this wordpress blog I thought I’d try to do the same on one of my work in progress Textpattern sites. I found a suitable plugin called social_cab from the textpattern resources site and downloaded the plugin which was created by Dejan Čabrilo.

Once downloaded I then like Wordpress just upload the files to the server however with Textpattern you need to paste the plugin code in the admin interface plugin tabs textfield and then hit upload. Then all you need to do is add the the txp tag in your form where you want the bookmarks to display and then activate the plugin.

Example code of how you add the txp tag to the article form

<ul class="sociallist">
<txp:cab_social tag="li" imgdir="/images/social" />
</ul>

And how it all looks in the post once it’s all up and running.

I’ll be writing more about my Textpattern experiences as I learn more about it.