Raj stated: "You seem to despise WordPress, even though it's better than TextPattern ;)"

• Well, are you developing themes for WordPress?
• Do you want content being different depending on page, category, keyword, article, tag, list, sub-directory,...?
• Do you have to write documentation for client projects?

The Textpattern CMS/blog system offers a great set of template tags!

In the development process of a website/blog time is an important issue. Doing website development for clients also means to have the ugly task to write a documentation. I am not sure how website development with WordPress is done but I can show you how easy it is to develop a content driven website with Textpattern and achieve a nice logical overview (plus easy documentation).

Let's see how to realize different sidebars dependent on the single output page...

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• Fixed six security issues.
• Updates should be seamless.
• Make sure that all plugins are also updated to their most recent version, especially admin-side plugins.

Plug-Ins should work but if they have configuration menus in the admin GUI there might be issues because of the following: Regarding the admin-side plugins there are easy patches involved because "Plugin developers should note that using add_privs() for admin-side plugins is now required (used to be optional for publisher-only plugins)".

More Textpattern 4.0.6 release news as a short list

The extended version is available if you follow the forum link below.

• New languages: Croatian, Korean, Português (Brasil), Serbian (Latin + Cyrillic), Turkish and Vietnamese
• New Textpattern template tags
• Changed Textpattern template tags
• Several Textpattern template tags have been deprecated and will be replaced automatically during the upgrade
• Textpattern speed improvements (less SQL queries needed)

The "Textpattern 4.0.6 Released" announcement from the mailing list sent on February 6:

Textpattern 4.0.6 has been released

Download Textpattern 4.0.6

We have fixed no less than six security issues. Because half of those
can be used from the public side, updating is strongly recommended.

Updates should be seamless for the vast majority of people, otherwise
make sure that all plugins are also updated to their most recent
version, especially admin-side plugins.

Textpattern 4.0.6 forum announcement: Further reading

Mary Fredborg

More about Textpattern 4.0.6

• FAQ-Entries specific to 4.0.6 (will be added when they arise)
• Textpattern Contributors (will soon be updated to 4.0.6)
• Forum-Thread (discussion) for the TXP 4.0.6 announcement