[openspending-dev] Satellite sites - wordpress option (and the primary option!)

Thu Apr 4 20:52:07 UTC 2013

Hey Rufus,

What instructions are you thinking about, specifically?

Cheers,
Vítor Baptista.

2013/4/4 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> Hi All,
>
> Having just created the satellite-template repo (see other thread) I
> got to wondering why we don't focus our instructions for creating
> "satellite sites" on e.g. wordpress rather than the gh-pages model.
>
> Wordpress has significant advantages:
>
> * Much more widely used
> * Easier to set up (installing jekyll is a serious pain, gh-pages
> deployment is non-obvious)
> * Much easier to add additional content
> * Easier to theme ...
>
> To start with all this would require is instructions on creating the
> relevant visualizations and embedding. (This would have an additional
> benefit of providing general instructions for any site, drupal, plain
> html etc)
>
> Later if we wanted to get fancy we could create a wordpress plugin.
>
> What do people think? (Note this does not mean getting rid of the
> gh-pages option but it would mean creating wordpress instructions [1]
> and giving them equal or higher priority in our instructions)
>
> [1]: I've created an issue for wordpress instructions for satellite
> sites here https://github.com/openspending/thingstodo/issues/10
>
> Rufus
>
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