Textpattern Is Not The Answer

Posted on November 30, 2024

Tagged TIL, Textpattern : I went down the wrong path with old technology

One problem I might have with 11ty is being able to add or modify articles from my iPad. Just this morning, I wanted to change the name of a TIL on my 11ty site. I couldn’t do it except from my Mac. The answer to that issue may be using Github to deploy the site and using iPad to access Github. Otherwise, I have to go to my mac to change or add local files

I tried Textpattern this morning just for giggles and grins. It's an old system that I actually used way back before Wordpress! I had found a bunch of old files on my Mac from way back, so I was feeling kind of nostalgic. Well, the fatal flaw with Textpattern is that if you use a hosted server, you can't get clean urls like

https://poorbc/2024-11-30/TIL/textpatternrules.

You get this type of sparkling gem:

https://poorbc/index.php?id=23

Not gonna make it in 2024 with that system.

If I had full control over a server and could modify the .htaccess file, I'm sure I could make it work. But that's a whole lot of trouble.