Drupal sites within KDE

[Eugen Mohr]

|I update and translate the Kdenlive homepage frequently. Wordpress with
DIVI is some kind of intuitive and easy to work with when the layout is
set up.|

|Eugen
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Am 11.08.2022 um 20:52 schrieb Paul Brown:
> On Thursday, 11 August 2022 15:47:09 CEST Nate Graham wrote:
>> On 8/11/22 06:05, Paul Brown wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:49:58 CEST Carl Schwan wrote:
>>>> Personally after having to deal with Wordpress at work, I think it offers
>>>> an horrible developer experience with tons of plugin violating the
>>>> spirit of the GPL, using PHP like it is still 00s (static and global
>>>> variable everywhere, almost no OOP, no namespaces, weird naming
>>>> convention e.g. $the_post, ...) and very poor internalization
>>>> infrastructure. And so I wouldn't recommend it
>>>>
>>> :(
>>>
>>> Great interface for writers, though. As this is going to be used for
>>> mostly
>>> writing, that should be taken into account also.
>> I agree with both of you: WP is kinda sucky for developers, but pretty
>> great for users. That said, assuming those who maintain it don't have
>> major problems (as Ben indicated) perhaps it would make sense as the
>> direction to move in.
>>
>> Selfish detail: my weekly blog runs on Wordpress and I've been thinking
>> of moving the "This Week in KDE" posts to KDE infrastructure and opening
>> it up to more contributors, so having an existing WordPress instance
>> that the content would be plugged into would ease the transition.
> ... And, all things considered, the current Drupal set up gives us the worst
> of both worlds: the writing interface is horrendous and buggy, its markup
> inconsistent, the layout features non-existent, uploading and embedding media
> is tedious, and, according to the devs that have had to deal with its backend,
> it is bad there too.
>
> If compromise is a state where nobody is happy, well, that's Drupal. But in a
> bad way.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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