I have this problem that our primary news site is already running on wordpress. Due to the editorial workflows and some new projects, i am checking ezpublish. But I want to keep wordpress frontend and want to attach it to ezpublush. So content that gets generated in ezpub can be published live into wordpress. I find extensions are very limited so wondering has anything been worked upon this direction.
If you really want to keep on using Wordpress for your frontend, what about using the REST API to retrieve content from its content repository ?
The REST API provided by the eZ Engineering is just awesome so most of your work will be to develop something on the Wordpress side which will be able to get connected to this API (I don't know WP enough to say if it's something easy or not).
Another solution if you don't want to use the REST API, is to use an XML template in place of the default HTML one. This way, eZ Publish will expose its contents over XML which is more usable than pure HTML...
Pro for the REST API : very fast (in comparison of using the XML solution)
Cons for the REST API : need to develop something dedicated to this WP/eZ bridge on the WP side
Pro for the XML solution : maybe more simple since I'm pretty sure that there are some extension on the WP side which are able to import contents based on XML
Cons : see REST API's Pro
Sorry if it's obvious, but I'd suggest that you do an estimate of moving the design and content to ez so as to establish how much work you can afford to sink into this push idea.
I think that you should look at the workflow support in ez and the onpublish trigger. This will let you hook the content as it's being published in ez and push into wp. The model is going to have some edge cases since the content structure in ez is quite flexible. For example, you're going to need to make some choices about related content, embedded content and images.
The easiest option would be to configure an rss export from eZ and import that rss into WP objects. However I agree with Doug that you would be best using this as a temporary solution with the plan being to replace the Wordpress front end with an eZ front end.
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I developed a website using Nextjs (Client side only, and used Nextjs for the SEO).
I wanted to ask if there is a way to convert this website somehow from Nextjs to Wordpress or anything else, or even somehow connect it to CMS application, so my client can modify images and content any time he want by his own.
Currently, the web application in Nextjs is pretty static, all the pages and conntent are hard coded wroten.
All my data are in JSON files and such are the images in the website.
Yes! This is a pretty hot topic right now, and there are many ways to accomplish it.
Here are the general guidelines:
Set up a "headless CMS" - this can be WordPress (set up in a special way so you are using just the backend) - or there are many other popular options, such as Contentful, Sanity, Prismic...
Your CMS needs to have an API for Next.js to use. If you go with WordPress, you can use the built-in REST API - or you can use the WP GraphQL plugin
This is such a popular topic, that if you search around, you'll find many helpful guides that go into more detail. You'll want to search "Next.JS with WordPress headless CMS"
Here's one example I found that uses GraphQL and looks fairly thorough.
Or, if you're not set on WordPress, check out Next.js-specific information for other popular headless CMS's - most of them will have specific documentation and guides for Next.JS - for example Sanity's Next.JS Guides.
WordPress is solid and flexible - but if you're not already a fairly strong WP developer, then I might recommend going with one of the more pre-packaged options (like Sanity, Prismic, Contentful, etc.) - many of them have a free tier.
I have a question about integration e.g. Woocommerce with external app.
What is the best and safe method to accomplish this goal?
Woocommerce has REST API but it might be quite vulnerable and will not show anything (products etc.) to non logged user(which is understandable).
Only safe idea that's comes to my mind is creating scripts inside WordPress and access them via AJAX but I'm worrying about performance of this method.
Maybe there is a right way that I'm not familiar with?
For that purpose, you should create an API from scratch of the wordpress database. wordpress databse has all of you need in a good way and only some php codes needed to create and execute the API. then in you app with AJAX you should access that.
this link may help you:
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/03/08/simple-rest-api-php
The right way is likely creating your own API if you don't want to use Woocommence's one. That means you make a plan of what you need to expose, all the routes and start building the API. I warmly recommend the book by Phil Sturgeon - Build APIs you won't hate. The author is also a co-founder of https://phptherightway.com/ so it's quite reputable.
I recently stumbled upon Etherpad, it's a collaborative writing tool
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/ - main project page
online Examples:
http://piratepad.net/
http://ietherpad.com/
http://typewith.me/
I want to add this engine somehow to my wordpress and let people collaborate their posts,
I'm wondering if it has been done before and/or does it take more than
shared hosting (that is what I have) to do it [server capabilities or what-not] ?
In general, I think this is a complicated way to go about it. Also, Etherpad allows some very basic font formatting but no images and such things you might want to include in a blog. Instead I suggest looking for some Wordpress plugin for collaborative writing, and you might find something less "real-timey" but perhaps good enough.
Or if you really want to try with Etherpad:
Etherpad needs lots of memory (RAM) to run. A typical configuration is 1 GB, but it might be possible to get by on 128MB dedicated to Etherpad. This means you'll need at least 256MB in total for a first attempt. Your shared host also needs to have a Java server installed (typically Jetty) and some proxying server (typically nginx). All in all, you have some work ahead of you in just getting Etherpad up and running. After that, integrating into the Wordpress blog editor. If/how this can be done, I don't know. I'd probably do a client-side javascript-hack to get the Wordpress textarea or richtext editarea to update from the Etherpad readonly view, which is the only place where you can get the contents of a pad as more-or-less raw source text.
A simpler solution would be to just add an Etherpad page through an iFrame. See this post for example - http://www.knowledgepolicy.com/2010/02/embed-etherpad-into-blogpost-or-on-any.html
In theory it's possible to replace Wordpress' editor with an Etherpad Lite iFrame. Etherpad now allows image/font editing and table support as plugins.
Java is no longer required for Etherpad, NodeJS however is.
Here is a plugin that is in development that does what you want - however development seemed to stop in early 2012.
http://participad.org/ seems to be the best solution in this space to date. I haven't tested it on my own site, but they have an at least partially-working demo online.
Yes! It is possible. WordPress now has a plugin. The plugin has three modules which enables an Editor in dashboard and let you edit via front-end.
You can find more details on their FAQ page.
Can anyone recommend an xml rpc library or client for wordpress using java?
I've run into migration hell moving a joomla install to wordpress.
Main reason for wanting to use rpc now is because i will be using it as my primary way of posting to the blog so i'm putting a simple client together and it needs to be configurable enough to allow me to port my joomla posts.
Some posts in future will just be reports generated from a java program as well so, its kinda essential i get something now if possible.
BTW if anyone understands the current wordpress table structure and can advise on how to do direct mysql inserts then i'm open to that too.
thanks in advance.
Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-java , I've just added a few features.
I've just posted this link on a different WordPress question:
Database Description from WordPress Codex. That will help you understand WordPress' table structure.
Your project sounds pretty interesting. A quick google search shows some info on Java and XML-RPC: 1, 2 (javax.xml.rpc ).
Second link belongs to Apache XML-RPC, probably a good option for your project.
We all know what Wordpress can do with a little bit of css goodness. I was wondering whether the idea could be extended even further and make a completely separate Flash/Flex frontend for a website, that uses Wordpress in the back. That would certainly be possible. I was just wondering whether its practical. Any progress on the topic ?
http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/2007/03/24/wordpress-in-flexas3/
http://www.asual.com/blog/swfaddress/flex-on-wordpress.html
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-convert-wordpress-adobe-flex-3-application-255415/
very similar question asked on built4flash
http://built4flash.stackexchange.com/questions/178/any-blogging-software-written-in-flex
simply put, it'd have to completely wrap the wordpress, unless you use PHP connection into wordpress routines, but this would be an addon/extension style build and not an integration.
http://flashcms.patrick-segarel.com
Wordpress, Zend Framework and AS3
Wordpress is used as a library item in order to access all the Wordpress functions within the ZF application, the retrieved data is sent to Flash via ZendAmf