TXP Magazine: about

About TXP Magazine

TXP Magazine is an international publication focused on Textpattern CMS, and beyond. The magazine’s primary aim is to provide a discourse between the Textpattern project and the rest of the world. While Textpattern leadership, under core developers, is principally focused on creating and maintaining one of the best open source content management systems ever conceived (if we do say so ourselves), the magazine serves as a channel for public relations, community engagement, and stirring up a bit of fun. But it’s not all flying champagne corks, the magazine is run like any professional publication should be: business-oriented, user-focused, and strategically guided. If we’re doing something wrong (or everything right), we want you to tell us about it.

Magazine history

Txp Magazine was launched in early 2005 by Alexandra Labudda, who managed it independently for nearly four years with a skeleton crew of volunteers. An amazing job they did too. Unfortunately, 2006–2008 were somewhat turbulent years for the Textpattern community. The core development team completely changed, and the community’s rhythm was tossed about for a while as a result. These things happen. In 2008, the magazine’s ink wells began to run dry, and by autumn of that year Labudda published her last article as magazine Editor.

The magazine remained open to contributions, but lacking a person in charge, it sat quiet for the next three years, until Textpattern took the magazine under it’s wing as an official project channel.

Destry Wion, a long-time member of the community, and founder of the Textpattern user documentation wiki, was invited to give the magazine new editorial direction. That’s where things are today, and the groundwork is being laid to relaunch TXP Magazine with a number of operational changes and new content products.