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.
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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.
There are already several questions with a similar title, but they received either no answers, or the answers were too specific.
I would like to integrate a blog into a website, so that content can be updated using a simple interface, e.g. from a wordpress/blogger/... account. I find the solutions with iframe cumbersome and unprofessional and I am not sure that modding a wordpress/blogger/... theme gives satisfactory results either, plus, I am not fond of running a whole wordpress engine on my website.
I build my light-weight websites from scratch (in gedit, Notepad for Linux), so I am not tied to any particular system or software and have full control over the layout.
Do you have any suggestions for achieving a satisfactory solution? Will I have to learn ASP.NET and IIS?
Many thanks.
WordPress is a good solution for your system. It's easy to install and use.
Requirements from WordPress Codex:
WordPress server requirements for Version 3.2:
o PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
o MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater
o (Optional)(Required for MultiSite) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)
It is also required that you install it on Apache. So, no need to learn ASP.NET and IIS.
If you want to have a blog, just pust the wordpress files in a folder called blog and install it there. You will then be able to access the website from yourdomain.com/blog/
Perhaps, I think integrating WP will be the best solution.. Integrating WordPress.
And for the IIS alternative, ChiliASP can be an alternative for IIS on Linux, but costs $$$ and I heard it wasn't working well. Alternative to that, learn PHP/MySQL. You'll never regret learning it, and you'll never go back to IIS/ASP. Linux/GNU opens doors like you wont beleive.
I want to build a web site in wordpress. A web version like mysite.com and a mobile version like m.mysite.com. I am thinking that will it do able in wordpress because wordpress save domain name in database.
mysite.com/m will be possible but the requirement is to go with m.mysite.com.
The approach in this helped me: http://www.phillipadsmith.com/2011/11/note-to-self-a-simple-way-to-accomplish-mobile-site-redirection-using-mod-rewrite.html
However, proper creation of templates and css will really make the need redundant.
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 want to develop a website using Drupal that can be accessed on mobiles. Can I do that?
I found a page on google full of useful links
An overview of Mobile modules for Drupal
http://mobiledrupal.com/content/overview-mobile-modules-drupal
Then theres the mobile theme and modules
http://drupal.org/project/mobile_theme
Adds the ability to choose a mobile theme in admin/build/themes/settings which is used for serving users on mobile devices.
http://drupal.org/project/browscap
The Browscap module provides a replacement for PHP's get_browser() function. get_browser() is difficult (or impossible) to configure for most users in shared webhosting situations, and requires attention to keep the underlying data (browscap.ini) up-to-date. This module avoids the configuration issue by storing the data in a database table, and the freshness issue by automatically retrieving the latest data on a weekly basis (if cron.php is run regularly).
Yes, sure. Drupal allows you full control on the HTML generated, so you just need to create a theme that is optimized for mobile users. You may be able to find some themes that already have support for this, you should search.