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[oll-user] WordPress for openlilylib.org?

[Urs L. <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.

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.

I can host it on my server (which isn't a 'donation' but rather using 
space which would otherwise be wasted). The domain name is hosted there 
anyway.
If the need should arise it seems adequately simple to export the site 
to somewhere else.

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

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

[Urs L. <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.

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

Best
Urs


Am 04.06.2013 15:53, schrieb Urs Liska:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I can host it on my server (which isn't a 'donation' but rather using
> space which would otherwise be wasted). The domain name is hosted there
> anyway.
> If the need should arise it seems adequately simple to export the site
> to somewhere else.
>
> As a side note: would blog.openlilylib.org be an adequate address for
> the lilypondblog?
>
> Urs
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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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Re: [oll-user] WordPress for openlilylib.org?

[Urs L. <ul...@op...>]

Am 05.06.2013 22:40, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> 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.
>>
> This may be helpful: http://www.sitepoint.com/non-blog-wordpress-site/
As I had already quoted that link I surely won't disagree ;-)
But there are plenty more info to be found on the net. Maybe I'll try to 
convert the existing template into a WordPress theme, which shouldn't be 
too hard either. But of course I don't care too much about the existing 
design.

Best
Urs
>
> best,
> JAnek
>