Textpattern

Spec sheet

Product

Textpattern is a free, open-source content management system for building websites.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Audience

The project describes Textpattern as suited to web designers, developers, publishers, bloggers, and corporate or personal blog authors.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Free plan

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Integrations

The official plugin directory lists integrations as a plugin category and shows 45 plugins in total.Read 10 Oct 2026 · plugins.textpattern.com

Security

The 4.9.1 release addresses two reported security issues, including authenticated stored XSS and an article-management access-control regression.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Support

Support is provided through user documentation and a community forum where core developers regularly answer questions.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Compatibility limit

MariaDB is not officially supported at present, although the 4.9.1 release fixes a reported issue for MariaDB 11.8 users.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Custom content types

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Custom user roles

NoRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Editorial workflows

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Extensibility

Textpattern can be extended with community plugins, and developers can create plugins in PHP.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Formatting

Textile formatting is built in, while Markdown is available through a plugin.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Media library

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Multilingual content

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Platform type

self_hostedRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Project model

Textpattern says it is run as a voluntary project by a small team and accepts donations to support the project.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Publishing

The CMS supports browser-based image and file organization, content categorization, comments, web feeds, visitor logs, and password-protected articles.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Release format

Textpattern 4.9.1 is available as ZIP, TAR.GZ, and TAR.XZ archives, with the latter two including extra multisite support files and symbolic links.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Self-hosting requirements

Textpattern runs on an Apache or Nginx web server with PHP and MySQL; the project recommends current vendor-supported versions.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

SEO tools

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · textpattern.com

Templates

Its built-in tag-based template language controls how dynamic content is retrieved and displayed, and can be combined with HTML and CSS.Read 10 Oct 2026 · textpattern.com

Plans and prices

Every Textpattern plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• Blogging Platforms#28 of 1258.5
• Content Management Systems#73 of 1658.2