I remember coming across a very minimalistic PHP CMS that targets mainly artists as an easy way to put their portfolio online. It was open source and had an own site. There was a ZIP download, no hosted service as far as I remember.
It was used by a number of artists, including well-known ones. The project site and many implemented sites had vertical menu navigation (i.e. items underneath each other). Now I would like to send the link to a colleague who is planning to re-build his site, but I just can't remember the name anymore. Does any name come to your mind?
http://www.indexhibit.org/
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There are other questions on this, but none seem to fit my user case.
I have two instances of a website, both are in English but using WordPress Multisite there is European version and an American version of the site.
This was set up by a predecessor, but I am trying to find an alternative to WordPress Multisite because most of the posts (~75%) belong on both Europe and America versions, and I don't want the content creators to have to worry about logging in to two dashboards and posting the same post twice.
This really doesn't have to be a WordPress specific question, I am just wondering how typical networking is done for a job like this where:
1). Theme is to remain the same
2). Posts are mostly the same and it would be nice if there was just one dashboard and plugin/function on a post to say publish for Europe, America, or both.
3). Users would have to opt-in to join the Europe site if they were already on the America site, but they wouldn't have to re-register, kind of like how users can join across the StackOverflow network.
I think I know how to do this if I were to write my own little CMS using another PHP or Node framework, it would just be a property of the various posts as to what geo they were published for and similarly each user would say what geo they were registered for, and then when querying the database from a given subdomain I would query for posts by the geo attached to that subdomain, as a kind of constant in the query.
Given I have WordPress install, what is the easiest way to accomplish such goals in WordPress or do I need my own solution? Also how do sites like StackOverflow manage users across various networks?
Furthermore if I wanted to accomplish this in a more do-it-yourself framework like Laravel, what are some of the general principles in order to accomplish this and not manage two sites but leverage something like Cloudlfare to point to subdomains based on gelocation and serve the same site but with different database queries?
I don't even understand why you would need a multisite setup for this. All you are trying to do is organise content, and within Wordpress you do that with taxonomies.
You can use the built in ones like categories or tags or you can create your own. Customise default settings based on geo ip information, or a user setting, or just lets users pick or whatever you want.
You can set it up so users to have to opt in to read posts tagged from across the pond, or just set their default to show local posts but give them a link to view all, or again just put a setting in their admin section.
Build your own CMS if you want, but seems like a real waste of time when this is pretty much exactly what Wordpress was designed for and they probably have 50,000+ developer hours headstart on you.
I am working on a joomla website but as I am new to joomla so I dont know exactly how to write a data uploading form for an administrator.Actually I want to make a form for administrator through which he will be uploading information about properties ,few pictures and some other information in the form of textfields , comboboxes and radio buttons.Once the data uploads then user will be able to search these properties by providing some information (in the form of textfields,comboboxes etc ).I know how to do these things in other own written websites but don't know how to do it in joomla.As far as I know there are a lot of extensions but they are very costly thats why I want to do it myself
'very costly' is a very subjective term. I've rarely seen a Joomla add-on cost more than £30 or £50 (approx $50 - $80). Some add-ons are more perhaps double this - but they tend to be full apps that will just drop in and run a full business.
http://docs.joomla.org/ and in particular this page:
http://docs.joomla.org/Component_Development
should be your starting points.
As you are just starting out you probably want to follow the Joomla 1.7 items where possible. Where not possible Joomla 1.6 is almost identical internally.
Browse the code of the 'core' components that ship with Joomla - within the /components/ and /administrator/components/ folders. Download extensions from the JED (Joomla Extensions Directory) http://extensions.joomla.org/ and pick those apart too.
Andrew Eddie - Joomla's former lead developer - offers video tutorials for a very minor subscription fee at his site http://learn.theartofjoomla.com/
I am in the process of building a website for a DJ. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I thought I would look out there if there are any solution available. My requirements are:
Ability to have own domain name & custom design
Section for listening to DJ's song
Section for photos
Section for videos
Usual CMS functionalities for managing static pages (personal bio)
Self-hosted & PHP is a big plus
Open source/proprietary free/paid doesn't matter
If you answer with a more generic CMS (i.e. WordPress), could you point out some extensions that would be helpful. I'm also open to web apps that don't fill every requirement, but explicit which of the requirements are not available.
Not a 100% match for a DJ, but Indexhibit is very popular among artists in general. I like it personally, and use it whenever I need to set up a simple, minimalistic CMS for a client.
It brings a lot of gallery and image management functions and is relatively easy to extend if you speak PHP. Every page can have a custom background image. No built-in WYSIWYG editor, so text and layout possibilities are very limited - although I find that is often a good thing.
It doesn't come with a built-in music and video playing facility out of the box, which is the biggest minus. The project's forum, however, shows some successful examples of people who managed to build that in. I can't make any estimate on how hard that would be.
Other than that, it does everything you need. The design is customizable through style sheets and page templates; there are various gallery functions; it's self-hosted, and Open Source (but asks for a backlink to be put somewhere on the site).
Drupal
Wordpress
Joomla
Google Search Results:
Play a MP3 / Wordpress plugin
Photo Gallery / Wordpress Plugin
Videos / Wordpress Plugin
if you need to find Drupal or Joomla plugins, replace tghe word 'Wordpress' in the Google Search
All three of these are very customisable
What is the best method, if there is one, of using Wordpress as a CMS for users to input data while not actually building the website on the Wordpress platform?
One possible solution I've found is using a PHP class called "WPGet" (http://peter.upfold.org.uk/projects/wpget) which fetches directly from the database.
You could use Wordpress' API calls, but depending where your "custom built application" sits, it might require including numerous files in your code (not very fun/efficient)
I have a site that requires constant updating. It's a golf club site: results, news etc all updated via wordpress by the club, or individuals with interest (juniors, ladies, seniors each have a mini-site) - and not always by me - so i have a front end, the standard site with static .php pages, which i then feed data to, by calling on posts marked in categories from wordpress, relevent to the site's page. The coding is easy and it's a quick and simple way of using wordpress as a cms, but it does strip away most of the Wordprss functionality, eg. comments, But I even use it for galleries with lightbox.
Like i say - it's nothing major, but sounds similar to what you're asking...?
I've got a client site that will have multiple "mini-sites" for individual web shows and one main site for the company that produces them. Each mini-site has it's own color scheme but has all the same menu items and/or content of the other site such as Photos, News, etc.
I can't seem to figure out how to ensure programatically that the stylesheet I associate with a given mini-site is retained for all interaction within the mini-site, until and unless a user leaves to the HOME page or changes SHOW from the shows menu.
It's possible that I would even use different virtual hosts for the mini-sites, so I want it to feel like they are completely different sites, but rather than maintain multiple instances of the CMS with the same content, they really are powered from one CMS.
I've thought about using JSession to manage sessions, and then grabbing the current mini-site name from session, changing only when a user selects the HOME page, or changes their SHOW from the shows menu. Alternatively I could try to have multiple templates and try to associate them to specific menu items, but that feels a bit ugly.
Does anyone have experience building sites like this in Joomla (or any CMS), and is there a best practice for this?
I think I will have separate sub-menus for each mini-site, so that Photos on each site is a link to a specfic gallery within the photos component, whereas Photos from the main site is a link to the main photo gallery.
I don't really get what you are trying to achieve from your question, but i decipher your question to be
You have multiple sites, [SITE A, MenuA, MenuB, MenuC] , [SITE B, MenuA, MenuB, MenuC] , [SITE C, MenuA, MenuB, MenuC].
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Each mini-site has it's own color scheme but has all the same menu items
Does this mean Menu A pointing to siteA, menu B pointing to siteB, MenuC pointing to site C, All menus are the same on each site.
why not have the same template on multiple sites with Different styles, such that If you have the same template, TemplateA, with styleA on siteA, styleB on siteB and styleC on siteC.
And if we are talking about multisites and styles. Are they on the same domain? i.e siteA.yourdomain.com, siteB.yourdomain.com, siteC.yourdomain.com I just learned this from a colleague, apparently you could actually use cookies by posting them to *.yourdomain.com and they will be accessible from all subdomains. Otherwise if the domains are totally differently it won't work for security reason. Something you might want to try
Sorry if i missed it, but maybe an taxonomical scenario will make more sense
Regards!