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.
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I want to use the 'Ultimate member' WordPress plugin since building that kind of system is a bit tedious.
Unfortunately, no.
As others have pointed out, plugins rely heavily on Wordpress' architecture and functionality for their own functionality.
You may be able to find a service which offers an API for account creation and authentication, but chances are you'll be using custom content for your users, which you'll need a server-side language like PHP (used by Wordpress) for.
Wordpress really isn't too much of a pain to set up, and if you have all the HTML, CSS and JS files complete, you can throw it together in a few hours.
If playing around in WP code really is not for you, there's even plugins to do it for you. Just complete the "5 minute setup" and away you go.
I love WordPress as it provides plenty of great themes, good SEO and overall content management.
But I'm not always happy with WordPress's original "Add post" and "Edit post" features as it required manual work to provide the content for the site.
However all the data of WordPress site stored in the database which can be easily manipulated by 'handwritten' script (PHP for example). It'd look promising but I'd be afraid of crashing WordPress-specific data structure and invoke mistakes in the site work or even make it inaccessible. Moreover WordPress has its own caching and probably many other things I should take care about before I get started.
So my questions are:
1) Is it even possible and (more important) reasonable to manipulate the WordPress database by handwritten script?
2) If the answer for the 1st question is 'Yes' - is there any tools (for PHP in the first place) which can make this process more save and pleasant?
3) Is there any reading for the task I'd like to accomplish? I tried to Google a little bit but I didn't find any even close to this (I tried a queries like 'wordpress database manipulation', 'wordpress post by php script' and so on).
If you are going to do this, it's safest to use the wordpress API and have your script do things through the API instead. That way if any database structures or features change, the API will incorporate those changes and you won't need to edit your code as much.
Read up on how to use the Wordpress API to make and edit posts. Here's an example: https://netmidas.com/blog/wordpress-rest-api-crud-example-with-a-post/
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.
I wonder if anyone has any idea on how to implement the nice and clean UI from PodPress (a Wordpress plugin) into .NET just like you find in the StackOverflow Blog when PodCasts are available.
And have that nice stats and iTunes integration as well :)
Added:
I realized now (stupid of me not checking first - using the meta key or even go to the admin page .../wp-admin) that SO Blog is on Wordpress, but still, my wishes are the same, How about a .NET version?
I guess I will contact the author directly and propose him/her a .NET version of the WP plug in.
I wonder if anyone has any idea on how
to implement the nice and clean UI
from PodPress (a Wordpress plugin)
into .NET just like you find in the
StackOverflow Blog when PodCasts are
available.
I'm searching for the entire bottle of magic, iTunes integration, Stats, etc... Shouldn't Jeff give an anwer, he had to do something about this?
Jeff didn't convert PodPress into .NET.
blog.Stackoverflow.com is a Wordpress blog.
He simply loaded the PodPress plugin for Wordpress, clicked activate in his plugins tab and navigated to his newly created PodPress tab. There he configured his iTunes integration and his statistics information.
If you view the source of the blog you'll see:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7" />
Edit: Response to your comment.
Yes, I realized that after, but still... I WANT a .NET version :) (not to much to ask, is it?) eheh ;) – balexandre
The PodPress-WordPress plugin is tightly coupled to the WordPress Plugin Interface. PodPress is a mixture of flash, javascript and php and all of these are calling upon WordPress functions.
The PHP and Javascript are easily editable but the work required to hack PodPress to work without WordPress would probably be a little more difficult than simply re-writing PodPress from scratch.
Also, I've read on many forums about people getting slow responses from the sole developer of the project and how releases have been taking a long while to come out. So I don't think you'll be able to easily get him to rewrite his project into a different platform.
Your options are:
Use WordPress
Rewrite PodPress from scratch without any WordPress dependencies.
Find an alternative
The magic happens inside the flash player, so all you'd need to do to get the same effect is place that flash player inside an aspx page (or ascx control) and supply the appropriate variables like the file name and location of the audio.
Does that answer the question or am I missing something?
Well, for the player portion, you could use the Yahoo! Music Player: http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/
I know that's not exactly what you're looking for, as you want all the features of PodPress, but, I imagine this could be a small stepping-stone/starting point. It's really easy to use, and it's a decent interface.
I don't think there's a simple answer to this question. podPress is a quite a large plugin, and porting it to a new language and blog engine is tough; there's not just a single trick to it. I imagine that the included Flash and Java players and the supporting JavaScript is licensed so that you can use them in your project. (podPress is GPL)
Now, the StackOverflow blog uses WordPress and podPress, not something written in .NET, so my bet is that nobody has actually done this work.
I'm looking for a wordpress-like blog interface to put inside a Joomla hosted site. The admin interface of Joomla is quirky enough and hard enough to use that daily updates are infeasible.
What I am looking for is an easy-to-use posting interface that supports multiple users with different accounts/names, a tagging scheme, and easy find by date/user/tag functionality.
In particular I'm looking for a relatively easy-to-deploy, out-of-the-box solution, and would prefer not to hack rss feeds together or write too much custom code. I know there are several extensions out there but they all receive largely mixed reviews... Has anyone used any of these? Or has anyone had experience putting something like this together?
Well you could do this - have a wordpress installation. Get the users to post there and then use the RSS feed from it (or the XML RPC Blogging API) to update the Joomla installation. You will have to write the update piece once, but then all the headache is gone.
I'm not trying to be smart here, but if the admin interface of Joomla isn't working for you, aren't you doing yourself a disservice by trying to patch their UI instead of spending your time looking for a CMS that is easier to manage/a better fit for your user base?
Edit: All of the CMS's I've dealt with in ASP.NET are homegrown. However I'm looking into checking out Umbraco based on the recommendations of two well-respected friends. In the case you presented where you already have content in Joomla and a migration out to another CMS is going to be overkill, I think that vaibhav has got it right. You should look into setting up Wordpress or some other blogging engine and then simply have Joomla consume the content and display it in the Joomla site. I've not done it, but from what I remember of Joomla when I was looking at it, I believe that it would support this.
After doing a bit more research I decided to go with the open source MojoBlog. It was quite easy to install and configure and after a few stalls and hang ups that were resolved via perusal of their forums I was up and running. The edit interface is not ideal but it much better than Joomla admin, and it has multi-user-support, tag categorization, modules for viewing by tag, date, etc. Think it will suffice for my needs in the short term.
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