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Wordpress as CMS - First Deployment

Published August 16th, 2006 in Blog, Wordpress, CMS Tags: , .

I’ve moved from developing the CMS plugin on my local computer, to deploying it on a server on the internet. I’ve already run into some issues, but at least it’s not totally broken :) Honestly, all in all, things seem to be looking pretty good.

The main issue right now? As usual, it’s those pesky rewrite rules and the modified permalink structure! Grrrr, I’ll get them yet!

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  1. 1 Folletto Malefico Aug 16th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Hello!

    Since I’ve already developed a WordPress website “with WP as CMS”, I’m finding these posts interesting, since I thought I could release my package as opensource…

    …so, my first question (since it’s a blocking one): will it be open source?

    Sorry if you already said that, but I didn’t found that info looking throught the past posts. :)

    ~

    Just as info: i’ve structured the website I did matching Pages and Categories, so, if a post is in a category, it will appear on the correct Page. Since Pages are not a flat structure and so are the Categories, I thought it was a good idea. I’ve developed a set of functions to make this kind of structure easy to be implemented in the template.

    In fact, my script is just a library of function to do what I’ve said above and to create custom “The Loops”.

    I will be glad to discuss with you, feel free to contact me. :)

  2. 2 Sol Aug 16th, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    The plugin will absolutely be open-source. No doubt about that. The main reason I didn’t mention it from the beginning was that I wasn’t even sure if it would be possible to do as a plugin :) . I’m currently working on standardizing the code (as much as possible) so that updates/upgrades will not introduce any conflicts with the data created by previous versions. Once I’ve got that done, it will be released as a plugin that anyone can download and use.

    Using pages in conjunction with categories was one of the possible solutions I’d initially considered, to the point that this was the first solution that I implemented. It wasn’t difficult at all the get a page to display a list of items in the matching category. Best of all, it didn’t break anything.

    I ultimately decided not to move forward with this solution for a couple reasons:

    • Flexibility - I wanted to release the implementation as a plugin that anyone could use on their current Wordpress install. Using matching categories/pages might introduce undesired behavior if they already have categories or pages with certain names.
    • Usability - I think I would get tired of always having to keep track of my pages and categories (to make sure that I have the proper matching names for each). Even more, I KNEW that others I may build sites for using the CMS plugin would have problems keeping track of it. So I needed to find a one-click solution.
    • Stupidity - I thought it might be fun to break every function Wordpress provided and see if I could patch it up nice and tidy ;p

    I do believe that I am close to getting the plugin to a state where others can use it, so the plugin should be released sooner than later.

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