Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the Content Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any thoughts on one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign someone to take care of certain content remotely?

Ta,
Spec


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On 11 Aug 2020, Spectre said the following...

Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the Content Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any thoughts on
one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign someone to take care of certain content remotely?

I believe any of them will allow you to assign remote administrators. I've tried most of them but always come back to WordPress. It's fairly easy to
run with tons of themes and expansions.

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On 08/11/2020 1:00 pm HSM said...

On 11 Aug 2020, Spectre said the following...

Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the Content Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any thoughts on one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign someone to take care of certain content remotely?

Hey Spectre,
I've spent a lot of time with Drupal over the years. Both personally and professionally, ranging from being used a global, multi-language enterprise content portal to running my own eCommerce startup. Mosty as a technical admin or designer (not strictly as a developer, but have done some dev work).

Drupal is a bit of a beast. It's extermely powerful as a generalized content management system, but takes a hell of a lot of customization and 3rd party modules to do anything really useful, I've found.

I like the way ACS is handled, it's pretty granular and you can create an infinite number of roles and access privs, content moderation and workflows.

The future of Drupal *seems* to be headless, so there is a growing capability in the Core to support other front-end experiences, connect to the backend via JSON API. Otherwise, it's all PHP, all the time.

Performance can be an issue without optimizing caching, CDN, 3rd party module bloat, etc., but I guess that's true of any dynamic CMS... But I can always tell when something is built on Drupal. Whether it's the UX/UI... or the slowness :)

Big plus? Open source!


Cheers,

Alpha







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Re: CMS
By: Spectre to Nobody on Tue Aug 11 2020 10:21 am

Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the Content

Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc?

Any thoughts on one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign

someone to take care of certain content remotel

Ta,
Spec

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With this sort of thing, you are always better of tryig them yourself and building your own opinion. A lot of these are
distributed as a Bitnami stack so they are easy to try without heavy installation.

I have played with WordPress and some others, but nowadays I just go with static blog generators. Jekyll works great.
Bashblog is awesome and is written fully in bash. You can actually hack self-hosted comment engine in them if you are so
incluned.

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Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the Content Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any thoughts on
one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign someone to take care of certain content remotely?

Not sure if it'd fit what you intend, but how about Mediawiki? Generally it's familiar to users, because it's Wikipedia.

But it's not the same sort of thing that Drupal or Wordpress are.

Still, for when I go wine tasting and keep track of things, it's pretty
useful.

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Hello Specre!

Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the
Content Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any
thoughts on one thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to
assign someone to take care of certain content remotely?

All the CMS programs are essentially remotely accessible. You can log in from any pc that is handy.

I'd recommend Wordpress. You can make it as simple as you like, or build
it into something more elaborate. There is a wealth of documention and support groups out there wrt to tips/fixes/adjustments. The telenetbbsguide.com is WP-based, and that is a smoothly operating fine resource.




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Hello Spectre,

On 11 Aug 2020, Spectre said the following...

Out of interest does anyone have any hands on with any of the
Content

Management Systems out there like, Joomla, Drupal etc? Any thoughts on

one

thats easy to drive.. do any of them allow you to assign someone to

take care

of certain content remotely?

I see replies but I never got your original message. Any idea why that would be?

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Not sure if it'd fit what you intend, but how about Mediawiki? Generally

I Like that you usually have some relatively left field kind of answer :) But I
don't think this one is a good fit.

Spec


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I see replies but I never got your original message. Any idea why that would be?

All kinds of ideas...

I don't like you?
You don't like me?
You mail hub doesn't like me :P
My tosser doesn't like you....
Someones mail processor got lazy <--- I Like this one

And on and on with all those possible permutations... but in actual fact no real idea.

Spec


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Welllll

If Drupal is hard yakka to get flying, then its probably not going to suit me. I'm going to need something I can get into place fairly quickly and continue to work on.

Wordpress doesn't grab me. I see all sorts of horror stories about it being hacked. And I might be wrong but I think 95% of the WP sites I've seen all seem to have the same look/feel, which doesn't exactly reach out and grab me either.

Maybe I could repurpose a wiki.. Others that rated a mention from another source included AlFresco and Zurma. Wonder who Al Fresco is... thats not you is it Al?

In lieu of anything hard and fast and having seen some cack handed installations of Joomla before... the man in charge had all the nouse of a dead weevil I think... I might give it a crack first..

Thanks all,
Spec


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Not sure if it'd fit what you intend, but how about Mediawiki? Genera

I Like that you usually have some relatively left field kind of answer
:) But I don't think this one is a good fit.

Thanks, I think? :)

And, yeah, not surprising on it not being a good fit. Kind of the point of non-traditional answers as possibilities. :)

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Someones mail processor got lazy <--- I Like this one

Not lazy; just taking the scenic route. :)

And on and on with all those possible permutations... but in actual fact no real idea.

Reminds me of when people ask things like, "Why is the website being slow?".

(Not quite, of course, since missing messages are worth looking into. And, in this case, I received the original, though it may be after the responses in
my message base.)

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Hello Spectre,

Someones mail processor got lazy <--- I Like this one

Not lazy; just taking the scenic route. :)

Here's another message that I didn't recieve, but I see replies to your message. I hope it's not my mail processor being lazy.. ;)

I wonder if others in net 4 are getting your messages?

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 13 Aug 2020 at 02:55a, Spectre pondered and said...

I see replies but I never got your original message. Any idea why tha would be?

All kinds of ideas...

I don't like you?

Say it isn't so!

You don't like me?

I think your wonderful!

You mail hub doesn't like me :P

Maybe.. ;)

I see your messages on Agency and I have seen Adept's replies to you so that means you are getting out to hub 1 and 2 at least.

I don't immediately know of any BBSs to check in net 4 to have a look. Given
a few minutes I'll see what I can see. At the moment I am not seeing your messages on my net 4 BBS but it may be something at my node.. I'll see if I
can figure out what's up.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: CMS
By: Spectre to Al on Thu Aug 13 2020 02:55 am

I see replies but I never got your original message. Any idea why
that would be?

All kinds of ideas...

I don't like you?
You don't like me?
You mail hub doesn't like me :P
My tosser doesn't like you....
Someones mail processor got lazy <--- I Like this one

I see your message here now. It got stopped up at some point but I think we are
back to business as usual.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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I see your message here now. It got stopped up at some point but I think we are back to business as usual.. :)

Plunger or Laxeze? :) No I don't need the details... good thing its moving again...

Spec


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Wordpress doesn't grab me. I see all sorts of horror stories
about it being hacked. And I might be wrong but I think 95% of
the WP sites I've seen all seem to have the same look/feel, which
doesn't exactly reach out and grab me either.

The issue isn't wordpress it's self, but the plugins and webmasters not
keeping bits updated. I've just cleaned out a site, that was using a
plugin from 5 years ago, and the safest option was to nuke the whole
site. (It got hacked).




\/orlon
VK3HEG


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Hello vorlon!

** On Saturday 15.08.20 - 10:51, vorlon wrote to Spectre:

Wordpress doesn't grab me. I see all sorts of horror stories
about it being hacked. And I might be wrong but I think 95% of
the WP sites I've seen all seem to have the same look/feel, which
doesn't exactly reach out and grab me either.

The issue isn't wordpress it's self, but the plugins and webmasters
not keeping bits updated. I've just cleaned out a site, that was using
a plugin from 5 years ago, and the safest option was to nuke the whole site. (It got hacked).

And.. it's not just the plugins and updates either. I had a plain ol' html-based set of pages that sported rogue html injections. Setting the
pages to 644 may not even be enough. Flaws in PHP can get exploited (it
can happen a lot with WP sites) but it can also happen on static html
pages too.

I maintain a WP-based site that still uses a 10yr old theme base. I may
get a typical PHP injection (haven't had one in over a year), but they are easy to spot and remove.

Check it out: https://wellandhistory.ca


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The issue isn't wordpress it's self, but the plugins and webmasters not keeping bits updated. I've just cleaned out a site, that was using a

So how are you meant to track whats dud and whats not? I guess updates to wordpress itself shouldn't be to hard unless they start to exceed the state of your system.

Spec


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The issue isn't wordpress it's self, but the plugins and
webmasters not keeping bits updated. I've just cleaned out a
site, that was using a

So how are you meant to track whats dud and whats not? I guess
updates to wordpress itself shouldn't be to hard unless they start
to exceed the state of your system.

Going to the plugin section on the main wordpress site and seeing when
the plugin was last updated. The controll panell in the site also lists
when updates are ready to be installed.




\/orlon
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Hello Spectre!

** On Saturday 15.08.20 - 15:13, Spectre wrote to vorlon:

The issue isn't wordpress it's self, but the plugins and webmasters
not keeping bits updated. I've just cleaned out a site, that was
using a

So how are you meant to track whats dud and whats not? I guess updates
to wordpress itself shouldn't be to hard unless they start to exceed
the state of your system.

WP updates can interfere with customized code or existing plugins.

But there is plenty of user support and info on how to manage all that.

WP serves me well for an animal rescue/adoption site that I volunteer for:

https://homeagainbancroft.ca

It is super easy to update the pet lists and photos and keep them
organized.

It is the same design for about 9 years now. It probably should be
converted to one of the adaptive designs that would conform better on a smartphone.



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