Future of the dot

[Carl Schwan]

Le samedi, avril 4, 2020 12:31 AM, Mark Constable <admin at renta.net> a écrit :

> 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

Yes a lot of people are using Wordpress but currently in the active web
contributors, there is nobody who knows how to create a Wordpress theme.

> 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.

Astra and Elementor are not free as in beer (https://wpastra.com/pricing/
and https://elementor.com/pricing/) and this isn't the theme used everywhere
else in the KDE websites. So this won't solve the problem that someone
needs to develop a theme and maintain it.

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> Mark Constable
> 0419 530 037
> https://spiderweb.com.au

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