Re: [oll-user] WordPress for openlilylib.org?

[Janek W. <lem...@gm...>]

2013/6/4 Urs Liska <acc...@ur...>

> Hi all,
>
> what would you think about using WordPress for openlilylib.org?
>
> According to Mr. Google and
> http://www.sitepoint.com/non-blog-wordpress-site/
> it seems quite straightforward to use WordPress for non-blog sites too
> (which actually was a problem with all static site generators I saw when
> searching.
>
> Advantages as I see them are
> - direct access to edit content (no need to edit locally and upload (via
> FTP or Git))
> - relatively easy to use
> - easy way to grant different access rights
> - no problems to include media (i.e. images, pdfs and binary downloads)
> - it should be simple to include a blog (although I somewhat prefer
> having only one blog, i.e. rather an 'openlilylib' category on
> lilypondblog than a dedicated blog).
> - when also the lilypond blog is run on WordPress there is only one new
> tool to learn.
>

yes, this seems a good idea.


> The only thing that is disturbing me so far is WordPress' content editor
> (although I'm not sure if that's WordPress' fault or from
> wordpress.com). I have the impression it is a damn WYSIWIG thing that
> enters all sorts of dirt in the markup. I found the idea of the site
> generator tools very appealing to edit plain text files with markdown
> syntax. But that's maybe a minor issue, and one that can be overcome.
>

In the editing frame, in the upper right corner there's an option to switch
to "text view".  I think that may solve your problem :)


> As a side note: would blog.openlilylib.org be an adequate address for
> the lilypondblog?
>

I think so, and i'll be pushing in that direction.


2013/6/4 Urs Liska <ul...@op...>

> Well, actually I've already decided to go that way.
> Installation of WP on my server really took me 5 minutes, and a dummy is
> already running at
> openlilylib.ursliska.de
> This address is only a placeholder as long as the current
> www.openlilylib.org has better content. It will take me three more
> minutes to map the right domain name to the WP dir.
>

Great!


> Any ideas or experience with WP?
> First thing obviously is to find a usable theme for a non-blog web site.
>

This may be helpful: http://www.sitepoint.com/non-blog-wordpress-site/

best,
JAnek
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