Jon Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:07 +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
Ok, I've finished making an example of doing the Inkscape news with WordPress. Please navigate to http://inkscape.turnipspatch.com/ and have a look. If you want to try out the admin, then go to http://inkscape.turnipspatch.com/wp-admin/. The us.erna.me and pa.ssw.ord is "Test" and "inkscape" respectively. This username has full access privileges -- I might have a change that if abuse becomes a problem, but I don't think the people on this list would be the ones to do that so we'll see how it goes.
Whoa...looks pretty good. I'm pretty amazed.
Let me know of any opinions you have, whether you think it's a good/better solution etc.
Yeah, I"m very impressed. I didn't think that WP could be made to look exactly like our site. Amazing. The posting seems easy.
I guess that's positive feedback ;). Well I tried to make it as transparent as I could. Obviously that means I haven't taken advantage of all of WordPress' features, but that can come later very easily.
I think it might be good if we could have trackback and comments. I read something saying that the new Wordpress has pretty good protection against spamming, etc. However, we can turn off commenting for each post, as is shown in the admin interface.
Hmmmm... I'm unsure about this. I run WordPress on my own blog, so have first hand experience of dealing with comment spam using it. Yes, it's very good, yes it's better in 1.5 (the new version), but it is still a problem all the same. I use a filtering/pattern matching plugin called Spam Karma -- it does similar for WP as SpamAssassin does for email. It catches most stuff, but some still gets through. If we allowed comments/trackbacks, *someone* would have to receive the emails for it and manually check for spam, they'd also have to delete the spam.
Also, allowing comments would probably mean the inevitable clueless users who think it's some sort of technical support forum. Stuff like that takes up developer's time to deal with, and I think it's more important that they can concentrate on making Inkscape.
What does everyone else say? Oh, also where will the links to the various feeds that Wordpress generates go? Maybe you could put those in somewhere prominently.
Have a long hard look at that button which says "Subscribe" in the navigational sidebar ;)
PS. I decided not to create a "theme" for Inkscape as this would mess up interoperability with the non-WordPress part of the website, and also make it hard for people not familiar with WP to know what to do when editing pages.
Yeah, that sounds good. Are you just including the basic page that wordpress generates in the php? Man, I'm gonna have to do this for my site ;)
The output WordPress produces is generated through "template tags" (which are really just functions). You include on file at the top of the page, which sets everything up, defines all the functions etc. Then you just write you "template tags" where you need them (or at least, it's *almost* as simple as that).