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An update to Yiannis’ article on ways of outputting from-to years in an article’s copyright notice.

What happens when you delete an image via Textpattern’s Content › Images pane but the image is still used elsewhere as an article image? This tip shows you how to show a placeholder image when no image is available.

The code creates a container for audio-files which can then be embedded in the articles using short-tags.

Have you ever wanted your site’s visitors to be able to download the date of an event(s) to their computer’s calendar? This tip shows you how to provide a downloadable .ics files for calendar apps from details stored in your Textpattern article.

A helpful comparison of the current video and media playing plugins for Textpattern from Nicolas Morand.

Nicolas Morand shares his plugin features that allow website users to select and sort articles on the front end.

Looking to create your own link bookmarklet system? Marc Carson shows us how to do it!

Oleg helps a community user to output article images in random order rather than by article order.

Here’s a simple snippet to add to your config.php file that changes your site links to secure HTTPS using SSL.

Tweaking the display of your expired articles can be a bit of a chore, try these examples for some ideas.

A step by step generic tutorial on how you can migrate a large database using SSH.

A useful snippet if you like to customise your page titles in Textpattern. Helpful for SEO!

Gary Venter chips in with a great little tip for creating front-end links to your articles and images.

Distraction free writing environments are great for authors and there are plenty of apps to help you focus on writing. Thomas Jund shows us how to create this environment for the Textpattern Write tab.

Custom article sorting has been a common request over the years. With this tutorial, Nicolas Morand brings us a way to select and sort articles on the front end.

Yiannis returns with his method for returning the current year in an article’s copyright notice.

Oleg is a talented plugin developer and a dedicated community member. In this tip, Oleg demonstrates a way of creating a multilingual menu using the etc_url plugin.

Claire Brione returns with another RSS feed solution for your Textpattern powered sites.

Textpattern Developer Jukka Svahn (gocom) shows us a PHP-based method for displaying a warning to users that cookies may be set in order to comply with EU legislation. This method allows the user to tick a box to remove the warning message in the future.

Yiannis presents a simple solution for randomising content using the linklist tag, in this case for a vimeo album collection.