Again, well said. You’re certainly presenting good additional reasons as to why Textpattern is such a versatile CMS.

For the more ‘under the hood’ developer it is easily possible to test PHP code/modules and use the existing content and plug-in environment.

This way you avoid synching a 2nd installation and achieve a very fast way to prototype new things and show them off live.

You make a good point. The ‘section’ feature of Textpattern does allow for the posting of different types of content and different styles of presentation. Your example is certainly a great way to illustrate that point. Thanks!

You are saying ??but also to add a separate news section to a site?? which is true but doesn’t hit the point.

A ‘section’ is a totally cut off part of your website which allows you to have totally independent content & design structures inside your (one) website if you wish to do so.

One simple logical example could be a calendar section. In the calendar section you can post future articles by using a different calendar article form, a different CSS for the design and you may decide that calendar entries are not published to the RSS feed or the front page.

The possibility to have different sections was the main reason when I decided to use Textpattern some years ago.