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Closed 11 years ago.
I have been creating joomla-powered webiste for quite a while by now. Recently I had to do a makeover of a WordPress powered website that also included significant navigation and structure changes. Perhaps it is that I am so used to Joomla, but WordPress seemed so damn not cool. Like simply listing pages requires either installing a plugin or dipping into documentation and coding it yourself, while you can easily accomplish it with just a few clicks in Joomla. Then in Joomla I can specify what modules I want to be shown for certain menu items or even assign a different theme if I need to. In WordPress I had to write some php code to accomplish this trivial task. It is so natural and easy to code themes with jdoc statements it took me half an hour to grasp everything when I tried doing it the very first time, and it took me hours to sort everything out with WordPress. I mean, yup, Joomla isn't perfect too, e.g. they still haven't updated documentation for 1.6 and stuff.
But why do people love WordPress so much?! I could understand using it for blogs, but why would anyone use it to build full-fledged web-sites?
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Closed 11 years ago.
Why Views are not used in widely in Drupal?
The question is so vague.
Disadvantage of using Views module? One of the disadvantages I can think of is its difficulty to configure it properly. Too many configurations needed to make things work.
p.s. this should move to Drupal Answers.
Your question should really be "why do some programmers discourage the use of Views in Drupal?"
And the answer would be because of the massive amount of extra page overhead and extraneous markup that's generated by the module. Those of us who care about DOM complexity and semantic markup wouldn't touch Views with a 10 foot pole on a normal day, preferring to write quick custom modules to output code that we have full control over (and I mean full control without having to override countless template files for specific Views/display modes).
Don't get me wrong, Views is excellent for what it is and a newcomer to programming in Drupal would likely find it very useful. Also there are many, many contributed modules that extend Views and many that expose their data in a fashion accessible to Views so you can build some complex, well related queries if you know what you're doing.
I would also echo what Shivan Raptor has said in that the UI for Views is an unwieldy behemoth at the best of times; I'm sure to those who wrote it it's as easy as pie to use but I have been frustrated so many times trying to find how to make the simplest change to a View that I gave up using them altogether (except for Views provided by other modules that are already complete!)
So to summarise, your question's premise is indeed false, but if you wanted to know some of the reasons Views isn't more widely used then you do now :-)
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Closed 10 years ago.
I am looking for an open source blog system..
I would like to find something with a single sign on (with existing application), multiple sites, rss feed and all be hosted from the same location.
Don't need too much crazy functionality.. but standard I guess. As far as hacking it up, the less learning curve the better. I have a hard time getting into the nitty gritty of wordpress..
I would like to fetch all the blogs from other sites via an xml/rss/JSON request.. and handle and process the information myself..
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Wordpress along with WPMU or Buddypress is quite good and easy to learn. Can't imagine anything being any easier to learn with the type of functionality you require.
Best part is that due to all the free plugins available it will be easier for you to modify wordpress according to your requirements.
Give wordpress another try, I'm sure you'll love it once you get the hang of it.
All the best!
After scouring the internet for friggin ever. I came across PyroCMS which is built on CodeIgniter and it is THE best. Simple enough yet powerful. Versatile. Multisite in the Pro license. All in all very awesome.
www.PyroCMS.com
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Closed 10 years ago.
Using Drupal CMS. Tell me please, how can I create an archive block like Blogger.
Standard Archive of Views module is not suitable. Considered the option of using Views Accordion - impossible groupping on multiple fields (month and year in this case). Think about writing a module, but still vague idea of how this can be realized: to provide module Views, or only Views Style Plugin ...
In general, waiting for offers.
I just wrote a blog post on this: http://www.only10types.com/2010/12/drupal-collapsible-blog-archive-like.html
It runs through a simple implementation using Views and a bit of jQuery. It might not be exactly the same as the Blogger implementation, but after a lot of looking it's the best I've come up with.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have decided to use framework to develop my own custom wordpress theme? But I'm confused which one to use?
Or should I continue to write all up codes myself. I use 960 as css framework and jQuery as js library.
Any help will be cordially appreciated.
I would vote for famous and feature-rich Thesis Theme Framework.
Thesis Home
You can find out more through a poll conducted here:
Poll – Which WordPress Theme Framework To Use?
I always have used http://wpframework.com/. It is a beautiful framework, community driven, and lock tight. Without all the unnecessary bells and whistles of the costly packaged frameworks.
I'm currently using the Thesis Theme Framework... but the company (DIY Themes) is having some problems and for now, the Thesis future is somewhat unknown, with some partners leaving the company, Pearson (the Thesis creator) with problems with Matt (The Wordpress creator), etc...
So for now, I wouldn't recommend Thesis. I'd go with the Genesis Framework or Headway. Headway is easy to configure with a visual editor which makes things very easy (Thesis is not as easy as it seems, though).
I used Thesis until recently when I switched to the Frugal. Thesis is good if you are at ease with codes.
Frugal is a no brainer and one can actually come up with a totally unique layout just by clicking the mouse. No need to learn any codes, just takes a little bit of time to get use to the maze of options available.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Can someone point me to a good Drupal Photo Gallery tutorial or book. I am trying to create a photo gallery in a grid view. However, I do not want the titles, etc. to be displayed with the photos. Also, I want to place a border around the photos to make them stand out a bit.
I am not that well versed in PHP so I want the solution to be handled completely with modules and as little coding as possible.
Here's a module that puts together the Views/CCK/Imagefield configuration for a gallery: http://drupal.org/project/views_gallery
What's great about this approach is that you then end up with a cck/views-based gallery and can easily tweak it to anything you want (like not wanting to display titles, having images pop up in a lightbox with a caption, etc.) and reuse the display of images elsewhere easily.
You can build your own photo gallery using Drupal modules like cck, views, imagefield and imagecache. Just search Google or Drupal.org, there are plenty of how-to's out there.
Here is a recent tutorial video: http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/148
If you are interested in learning how to use Drupal, with little/no php coding, you should take a look at Using Drupal by the Lullabot team. It covers a lot of different cases, one of them is how you can build an image gallery like you describe.
Here's a tutorial that really helped me when I was doing the same thing for the first time: http://www.primalmedia.com/blog/building-better-drupal-photo-gallery