[Hamara-devel] wordpress MU

[Vikas Tara]

On 20/04/15 17:52, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> We need to move ASAP to either wordpress MU (multisite previously 
> called multi-user) or some other medium because the current solution 
> that we have through liferay CMS  just doesn't work.  These are the 
> failures I found while trying to find blog content :-
>
> a. It is impossible to find author's blogs except if you go by date or 
> if you go by http://www.hamaralinux.org/blogs/ but this defeats the 
> purpose altogether.
> b. There are no tags within blog entries
> c. Dunno if there is support or not for the <--more--> flag  as all 
> entries go in one-go.
> d. The URL's generated are really weird .  Please let me know which is 
> more easy to figure out  this - 
> http://www.hamaralinux.org/blogs/-/blogs/that-was-2014?_33_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hamaralinux.org%2Fblogs%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1 
> or this - 
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/save-the-internet/
>
> I have always found to gravitate towards web-pages which appear easy 
> to remember and clean.  Also as you can there is tag cloud so for a 
> potential reader s/he can choose any of the topics s/he desires and it 
> would be easier to figure out.
>
> Some links where wordpress MU is being used actively :-
>
> a. https://data.nasa.gov/
> b. http://www.democraticleader.gov/
> c. http://www.mtv.com/news/
> d. http://techcrunch.com/
> e. http://teachforus.org/
>
> Wordpress MU is nothing but a feature of Wordpress so in that sense if 
> we install Wordpress it's easy to configure.
>
> The only difference from the regular Wordpress site is that you have a 
> 'Network Admin' and a 'Super Administrator' instead of Administrator.  
> I do not know how user-friendly the dashboard of Liferay CMS, but this 
> one is dead simple,  sharing my dashboard.
>
> I am and would be looking forward for feedback for the same.  I would 
> like if we are able to re-direct all the blogs to 
> hamaralinux.org/blogs/ .
> -- 
Agree - wordpress is a much easier to use / better blog.

modsecurity / fail2ban is pretty essential when using it though.

Liferay can still import the content from wordpress so that it's still 
displayed / linked from the homepage of the website.

Raise an infra bug for the installation?




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