Situation: you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to host one or more domains in sub-directory mode (as in site.org/blogname), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps:
site.org/blogname1
site.org/departments/blogname2
site.org/departments/blogname3
site.org/services/blogname3
The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in wpmu-settings.php, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a [...]
Posted September 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cms, hack, hacks, information architecture, url path, wordpress, WordPress MU, wpmu. 6 Comments.
strong>Situation: using WordPress MU (possibly including BuddyPress) on multiple domains or sub-domains of a large organization with lots of users.
WordPress MU is a solid CMS to support a large organization. Each individual blog has its own place in the organization’s URL scheme (www.site.org/blogname), and each blog can have its own administrators and other users. Groups [...]
Posted September 3, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, cms, cookies, hacks, sub-domains, wordpress, WordPress MU. 4 Comments.
After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. The cool thing about writing Pages in WordPress is that I can create a taxonomy like /projects/wpsms/ to place them in. The downside is that new pages never appear in the RSS feed.
So I need [...]
Posted November 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: bsuite, cms, content management, wordpress. Be the first one.
a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress‘ Pages feature makes the popular blogging platform a sophisticated CMS. bSuite adds a few features to make it even better.
Write excerpts, tag, and categorize your pages
WordPress excerpts are an underused but powerful feature that allow you to explain to your readers why they should read the page you wrote. Tagging [...]
Posted September 24, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, cms, features, innerindex, list_pages, plugin, shortcodes, wordpress, WordPress as CMS. Be the first one.
The question:
What’s a good user-friendly Macintosh web development program? A friend called. She’s thinking of buying Dreamweaver, but is afraid it will be overkill. She found Frontpage to be easy and needs something similar.
My answer:
If the intent is to design individual pages on an unknown number of sites, then I don’t have a recommendation.
If the [...]
Posted May 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, content management, questions, site management, web design, wordpress. 10 Comments.
New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
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Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: ajaxian, cms, content management system, mooflex, opensource cms, web application. One Comment.
Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:
Boston College
Northeastern
Bristol Community College
UMass Lowell
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Posted December 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, collage, commercial cms, content management, content management system, serena, serena collage, vendor, web content management. 4 Comments.
We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT’s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well.
Here’s what we learned in the demo:
It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the [...]
Posted December 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, content management, content management system, demo, lcms, luminis, luminis cms, luminis content management suite, sales demo, sct, sungard, sungard sct, web content management. 8 Comments.
With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four:
Joomla, a derivative of Mambo
Collage appears to have good content reuse features
OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients
Drupal: open source and turning heads
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Posted December 19, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, collage, commercial, content management system, drupal, joomla, omniupdate, open source, oss, web, web management. 3 Comments.
We’re looking at the Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). The real demo comes later, but the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. Hmm.
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Posted December 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, content management system, lcms, luminis, luminis cms, sct, sungard. 4 Comments.
