I want to know if Facebook uses WordPress to fully create any of its web pages because I use a plugin in my browser that is able to detect sites developed with WordPress. So I opened one of Facebook's sub domains and the plugin says it uses WordPress. I was a bit surprised because I thought a huge company with lots of engineers would prefer developing a site from scratch to better suit its needs.
Yes. Here is one of their subdomains, built fully with WordPress:
http://newsroom.fb.com/
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I created the site http://staffmeup.com/
We love the look of the home pages of some wordpress themes we've seen recently.
QUESTION: in theory, is it possible to use a wordpress theme as our home page at staffmeup.com, but then have all of the rest of the internal pages of the site run as it is currently built? (below, per my developer). If it is at least possible, are there any strong cautions or reasons not to do it?
1) The site is built using Zend Framework 2 on a traditional LAMP stack
2) Server is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
3) We run PHP 5.3
Of course it is possible, but it doesn't make any sense and integrating the two platforms would still require a developer and most likely would ultimately be more work (not to mention be a lot harder to update and maintain both from an admin perspective and a development perspective) than simply mimicking the design or functionality of one of the Wordpress theme home pages you like while staying in your current platform and framework.
In short, yes it's technically possible, but realistically it doesn't particularly make sense to do so. The only reason I can think you might want to use Wordpress for the home page and your own custom platform for the rest of the site is to avoid paying your developer for more hours to build the homepage on your platform, but integrating Wordpress with your existing site is going to take developer expertise anyway so that's a moot point.
It would make more sense to take the Wordpress theme's home page code (HTML/CSS/JS) and associated template(s) and adapt them to use whatever templating system (PHP) your site uses rather than Wordpress's templating system.
We are planning to create an asp.net website (probably mvc), that needs a cms for news items.
Our content managers and others who require to publish news have asked if they can use wordpress for content management.
Our users have different roles, and news items should be visible to certain roles, or even specific users if possible.
The reason they want wordpress is the manager's user friendliness, so if some other alternative with the same kind of user experience would be ok.
Could anyone please point me in some direction?
NOTE: I'm still doing research at the moment, so I've got nothing holding me back at this point.
There is an API plugin that has been developed to spit out information in JSON, but I have not actually implemented a site with it:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/
Perhaps you could have the authors work on a wordpress install and create your app to draw content via that plugin?
I too was facing the same issue, little different. We want to have WP as CMS so that our site can take the benefit of SEO which is very easy with WP. SO we installed WP under a folder in the Main ASP.net based website. Initially there were issues, I was unable to run it. Finally managed to run it. Solution is posted here - http://www.wwwlabz.com/how-to-run-a-php-based-website-from-a-subfolder-in-asp-net-website. Hope it will help someone. Actual site where we implemented this is http://www.periproperties.com/content/.
Now I want to have specific section of WP to be accessible on my site. SO I am exploring different options and will post, if found something
Thanks.
DotNetNuke is the most popular ASP.NET based CMS (source). I am implementing my first project in it and so far I am very happy with it.
Note the free edition will not work for you since you need customizable security roles and free has a limited set of predetermined roles. You'll need the pro edition.
I don't know how similar it is to WordPress. Overall, WordPress is much more popular but of course there are platform issues with WordPress since it is Apache based and you want to create an ASP.NET website.
I saw in wordpress some APIs being published for developers. What could a developer gain by using those APIs?
I think you've taken API to mean something similar to what Flickr and Vimeo do, which they are not. They are simply ways for you to access and ammend core functionality of the Wordpress platform, so as to bend it to do what ever it is you need it to do.
There are ways to pull data from your blog to a mobile devise, but that is a very different question.
Wordpress API are for those that want to develop a theme, or writing custom plugins for Wordpress.
Either way, you can use to integrate Wordpress in your exisiting php site, using the powerful backend as an administration tool and the using the API to retrieve the content and present it in your (already) website.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website
I have some 20 sites with common codebase and database via Drupal Multisite installation.
Whats the best way to make a multisite Drupal installation also accessible via mobile.
For example, I have sites like www.abc.com, www.cde.com, www.fgh.com etc all poiting to same codebase and a common database of a Drupal multisiste installation which uses Domain Access Module as its key module. Whats the best way to make a multisite Drupal installation also accessible via mobile. So now I would like www.abc.com when accessed via mobile to show the mobile version or get redirected to mobile.abc.com
Use Mobify.me and associate plugin
Use Drupal Mobile Plugin http://drupal.org/project/mobileplugin
Make a page in php using Drupal database.
The mobile version just needs to show the last 3 items while the web version is a complex magazine layout.
Whats the best solution considering the following points
flexibility
low server load
fast response time
reliability
Alternate solutions are also welcome
There is a good overview of options here
Option 1 and 3 are fails when it comes to most of your criteria.
Mobile Tools seems better supported and used than mobileplugin, but it is probably worth experimenting a bit to see what works best in your environemnt.
i have created a website for a non profit organization. People on the site want to post stuff . i want to figure out the best way to allow them to do this.
Can i host a wordpress site and somehow embed it into my website
Do i need to install some whole CMS solution?
Other solutions for supporting user driven posts.
to clarify, the functionality of wordpress is all i need (people posting content and pictures).
It's easy to integrate Wordpress into a static html site.
Integrating WordPress with Your Website « WordPress Codex. (You do need mysql, but almost every hosting company out there offers it.)
If you want to convert an existing html site to Wordpress, look at Theme Development « WordPress Codex. Developing Wordpress themes is no more complex than other CMS's, and here are lots of tutorials out there. You divide up your html into header.php, index.php, page.php, footer.php, etc., and css into style.css. If you do a standard Wordpress theme, then plugins will work fine.
Go ahead and do a full install of Wordpress; there's no option for a minimum install. WP is small, anyway.
If you need a finer degree of working with editors, subscribers and contributors than Wordpress offers out of the box, look at different plugins that offer role managing capability, giving administrators the power to give different levels of permissions to users to write, edit and publish. WordPress › Search for roles « WordPress Plugins
You can pull other content into Wordpress via RSS, too, and either have that content appear as an RSS feed, or have it integrated into published posts. FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress
You can get a free account at wordpress.com and try out a limited version of Wordpress, limited in that it is hosted by wordpress.com and you have a small number of plugins and css modifications you can make. But once you selfhost Wordpress, then you can do much more with it in terms of plugins and adapting the css to an existing site.
You could use a Wiki.
There are a few popular free Wiki packages out there these days. By far the most popular would be the framework behind Wikipedia - MediaWiki. Wikis' are a proven way to let users create the content, with systems in place to prevent vandalism/spam. MediaWiki also has a whole bunch of great plug-ins for anything you would need.
Another Wiki option is to use the Wordpress-Wiki plug-in for Wordpress. It lets you use Wordpress, but with some features of a Wiki. Not as feature rich as MediaWiki, but a good option if you really like Wordpress.
You do not need to install a whole cms solution, though wordpress can host an entire site, not just blogs.
You could hack it by using a hosted weordpress and displaying it in an iframe (this one might get some flames - but it works and it's easy)
You could also install wordpress on your server. By the sounds of it this is not your expertise, and while setting up wordpress is getting easier every release, for smaller sites I would much rather recommend pivotx
wordpress has a lot of overhead and requires a mysql database. The templated, while there are more available than in pivotx are harder to create. So I'm suggesting the other solution because it does the bulk of what wordpress does, and though it has far far far fewer plugins, it is a lot easier to theme, as it uses smarty.
This problem/scenario is pretty common. And the most common solution is to install a CMS. Our compagny installs Drupal to let end user manage their website easily. They can edit menus, and change content as easily as you write a document in word processor software.
But there is a lot of CMS out there...
Have you tried blogEngine.net?
I have two sites http://www.dotnetscraps.com and http://www.abhyast.com/ that are hosted using blogEngine.net. It is free and has multi user support, and the best part for me is that it supports both XML and SQL hosting. Anything that you post automatically ends up in the App_Data folder which is what you need to backup.
http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
There are a plenty of themes to choose from, and if you wish you can customize your own theme without much effort.