This post could have been me, for when discovering ProcessWire (https://processwire.com/) after 10-ish years of Drupal (also trying out Joomla, Wordpress, Typo3... (well tried installing it at least) and perhaps a few others).
The main differences would be that in Processwire, you don't even need to install plugins, as all different types of displays are so easily created from scratch in the pure-PHP templates, using PW's extremely awesome jquery-like API for getting content (see the cheatsheet for an idea: https://cheatsheet.processwire.com/).
The community is great too.
From the post, I understand textpattern might allow editing designs from the UI as well though? That'd be nice... although upon thinking about it, such a feature could also be implemented with a few lines of code in ProcessWire, exposing a field for the UI, that would be processed in the php templates.
> I understand textpattern might allow editing designs from the UI as well though?
Yes, everything is stored in the database, and Textpattern has an integrated text editor for templates and CSS, with a rudimentary form builder (basically search for txp tags and drag them in).
The main differences would be that in Processwire, you don't even need to install plugins, as all different types of displays are so easily created from scratch in the pure-PHP templates, using PW's extremely awesome jquery-like API for getting content (see the cheatsheet for an idea: https://cheatsheet.processwire.com/).
The community is great too.
From the post, I understand textpattern might allow editing designs from the UI as well though? That'd be nice... although upon thinking about it, such a feature could also be implemented with a few lines of code in ProcessWire, exposing a field for the UI, that would be processed in the php templates.