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It's my second ignorant question for today, this one even more ignorant than the first.
Why wouldn't you use Wordpress to build Twitter, eBay, Amazon, or [you name any other "application" type website]?
There are some big name websites using Wordpress (supposedly) like Network Solutions. It's unclear to me how much of their website actually runs on Wordpress. Most of these sites appear to be more news or blog oriented. I'm guessing they use Wordpress to post "static" content but probably build other application features outside of wordpress. For example, do you think Network Solutions domain lookup and purchasing features are built in Wordpress?
But the real question here I guess is what type of website would you build in Wordpress, Concrete5, Joomla, or Drupal? It seems like a really stupid question but would you build a custom web app using CMS?
CMS' are really good if you require ease of use, 'simple' customisability, or (in the case of wordpress) are constantly updating. Services such as eBay or Twitter wouldn't make sense on one of these platforms as there would be a lot of proprietary code in order to make there service work and be unique - this is what CMS' fall down on. You rely on people (or yourself) to build plugins to extend the original functionality. With a ground up website, you lose all the 'flab' (i.e. excess code and functionality that you may never use) and have a much more managable system.
Behind all the sites you mention would be some kind of in-house built CMS - it just wouldn't make sense for these companies to use publically available systems.
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I have just started out doing web development projects for clients and I have done two so far using NextJS, NuxtJS along with headless WordPress for the CMS. As I also have a full time job these projects take a fair amount of time and I end up working constantly.
I have recently come across Webflow and have messed around with it to see how it works. It seems like if I used Webflow and the CMS is provides I could get through projects much quicker than I would currently.
Do you think that for freelancing using a tool like Webflow is a better idea than what I am currently doing?
I currently use Webflow for client projects and I use Next.js at work. I would highly recommend using Webflow for the following reasons on most web dev client projects.
Speed of customization (You can create components in Webflow and copy and past them into new projects, which allows you to reuse standard parts in seconds)
CMS already integrated.
Ability to easily give clients access to edit their own content if they need
Easily edit SEO settings
Easily connect other tools like Zapier and Memberstack if you need
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I have recently built a website based on WordPress. I got a free theme from a source in Pakistan.
I have to use this theme because it perfectly serves my purpose. But I want to know that if this theme is quietly establishing a connection with another server and sending my data.
How can I detect that my website is internally sending some codes to the server of developer of theme? Also, I need to know what servers are being communicated with — like, if any image is getting loaded from their server, any code is imported from their server, or anything else is being fetched from their server to run.
Since you have the source code, then you can simply look what this theme does - basically theme should only be HTML and CSS (or mostly it). If there is too much suspicious PHP of Javascript I wouldn't use it.
If you want to see if it connects to some outside sources, run it in your controlled environment and use some network sniffing tool like Wireshark for example.
Generally speaking - if you don't trust the source where you got your theme and you are not good enough in programming to check for malicious code yourselves, don't use it!
I would recommend downloading some of themes provided directly by wordpress.org - those should be safe.
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I created a webpage with html5/css and some javascript (jquery). Now i want to extend my page with some functionality (server side ways), but i dont want to use php. I searched for an alternative and found node.js, now i want to use it.
But honestly i dont unterstand how it works (in the context to extend my page, i do unterstand javascript). I began to read some tutorials, but they always start explaining stuff to build a website with node.js (from scratch), but i want to extend my already existing site with some functionality (forum, maybe cms) and dont want to build the page from scratch.
I ordered some days ago a book about node.js, but i'm curious, sry for that.
I'd very appreciate if you could help me. I'm also grateful for some links, etc. :)
Cheers,
Sven
The thing about node.js is it's used to write servers. What this means is that you have to handle receiving requests from browsers and sending responses back for every. single. page. This is why tutorials on node.js start from scratch, because you can't just add node.js on to a webpage (like you can with php). node.js is like the backbone of your website, not some server side augmentation.
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I am administering a drupal based website for a small company. We want to start offering our customers video content, streaming preferably.
What we would like to do is have a log-in on the website where after authentication the user could access the videos.
Since I am quite new to do this I don't know
A., what streaming provider to use, lot of people mentioning amazon s3
b., is it possible if using amazon s3 to have my conent be "secured" so only people with neccessary login details access it.
(There is no need for purchasing infrastructure. We hand out the login/password to the customer personally, we just want that if someone copy/pastes the link he or she would not be able to watch it)
I just need some general guidline, googling streaming hosting gives up way to much results and I couldn't find the best solution for this type of question... :(
Thank you for your help!
Check out http://wistia.com/ its one of the best service.
As for showing the video you embed them in a content type and set permission for that type for authenticated users.
This is a basic example. If you needs is more complicate then you can try making a module or use commerce module .
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I would like to give web designers autonomy to publish web pages but letting them to edit aspx files is a serious security risk as they don't have the required programming skills.
I was thinking about two approaches:
They are only able to edit html files and call services with ajax;
Let them to edit xslt files associated to services that return xml.
But both have a drawback: limited use of templates.
How would you deal with this situation?
If the developer is on his own domain then its safe to give him full access to JavaScript. However if he is sharing this domain then by giving him access to javascript you open the door to XSS. This allows the publisher to hijack other user accounts (usually by access document.cookie, but there are other same-origin policy abuses). One possilbity is to use Html Purifier, which prevents javascript all together.
There is a better alternative and that is a Google-Caja, which places restrictions on the javascript a developer can execute. This is important for apps written for social networking sites.
This is an issue that's already been addressed in most CMS systems. Have a look at joomla, drupal, SharePoint, etc etc.