Future of the dot

[Carl Schwan]

Le samedi, avril 4, 2020 1:12 PM, Mark Constable <admin at renta.net> a écrit :

> On 4/4/20 9:03 pm, Carl Schwan wrote:
> 

> > 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.
> 

> The free versions of both Astra and Elementor are indeed 100% free
> with source available on Github under GPL2 and GPL3 licenses. Astra
> (for header/footers) and Elementor as the page builder almost
> completely eliminates the need for a "theme." Whatever is the current
> "KDE websites" style could be replicated using Elementor.
> 

> If the "standard" KDE theme is available for reuse then fine but if a
> theme style needs to be started from scratch then Astra + Elementor is
> an excellent combination. The free versions of Kadence + Brizy would
> arguably be even an better combo (also developed on Github) albeit
> slightly less mature.
> 

> Using a dynamic page builder instead of a static theme means a site
> style can be easily iterated on over time using a backend drag and
> drop "gui" that nearly anyone could pick up...
> 

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em8oIBGy6bs
> 

> 


I'm currently investigating using Netify CMS as it would allow editing the content in a CMS but save the content in git and use all the current tooling I made for theming. The best of both worlds :-)

We could test it on kde.org/announcements/releases first since it already use Hugo and would be easy to integrate with.

You probably already noticed I'm not a fan of Wordpress and Drupal. I don't think Wordpress is a solution, it could probably work for the dot, but won't for other more complex websites like kde.org. And I think in this case it would be better to use the same technology for everything. I also already build an infrastructure for consistent theming used in now more than 15 KDE websites and wouldn't want to use something radically different for creating a website theme. I also had a bad experience in the past with Wordpress so it is possible that this is influencing my judgment. ;-) 


Cheers,
Carl

> 

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

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