Future of the dot

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 1:54 PM Mark Constable <admin at renta.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/4/20 6:24 am, Carl Schwan wrote:
> >>> surely if Hugo can't do this we should, if considering moving
> >>> from drupal, look at alternatives that support what we need the
> >>> dot to do? I feel the ability to share and work together on an
> >>> end formated story with images/links (in their final place) is a
> >>> critical feature to have I'm not convinced how well the proposed
> >>> workflow would work for non-developers. It sounds pretty
> >>> complicated compared to a cms
>
> Wordpress. The number of people available to help with a technology
> that is widely used is hard to ignore. Google hits comparison...
>
> hugo static site - 48,500,000
> Drupal - 54,700,000
> Wordpress - 2,310,000,000
>
> There are a zillion plugins to provide any kind of functionality and
> for theming just use the free Astra + Elementor combination, and put
> the site on Cloudflare for worldwide exposure.

Just for the record, we already use Cloudflare services to protect the
Dot (on Drupal 7) along with other sites we host.

Hosting wise, Wordpress has been pretty trouble free for us and has
been easy enough to work with (including the various caching plugins)
so is a good candidate here, subject to it being deployed in the
manner we usually deploy it.

>
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> Mark Constable
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> https://spiderweb.com.au

Cheers,
Ben