Miscellaneous Tech News
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
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I mean out of the box Drupal is still a great CMS if that’s all you want but you also have the building blocks to create anything you could imagine.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
I wondered if they ever looked at Joomla?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
I wondered if they ever looked at Joomla?
A lot of the Joomla extensions are paid for only so I know it deters a lot of places from using it. Last time I paid attention it was the least popular of the big three also.
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I've used Joomla a lot in the past... it has it's uses where WordPress didn't fit. But now with so many WP plugins, you can make it do anything Joomla can do.
I've since moved completely away from Joomla, as I no longer see any reason to choose it over WP.
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How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
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Oh, so kind of like Access but, obviously, way more advanced and useful.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
Oh I see. No I don't believe anything like that is built-in to WordPress. But I wouldn't use WordPress for that purpose anyways.
If I had to, that would need to be done via a Plugin, which are very abundant.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
Oh I see. No I don't believe anything like that is built-in to WordPress. But I wouldn't use WordPress for that purpose anyways.
If I had to, that would need to be done via a Plugin, which are very abundant.
I'm part of a site that uses a function like that in Joomla.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
Oh I see. No I don't believe anything like that is built-in to WordPress. But I wouldn't use WordPress for that purpose anyways.
If I had to, that would need to be done via a Plugin, which are very abundant.
I'm part of a site that uses a function like that in Joomla.
I haven't seen that ability in Joomla either by default, but it's been a few years. At least not without a lot of custom work, but same with WordPress.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Oh, so kind of like Access but, obviously, way more advanced and useful.
Ya you can create pretty much anything. Thats why it’s more of a CMF than a CMS.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
Oh I see. No I don't believe anything like that is built-in to WordPress. But I wouldn't use WordPress for that purpose anyways.
If I had to, that would need to be done via a Plugin, which are very abundant.
Ya the last place I worked I built an intranet that tracked safety issues, serial numbers, part/QA issues, etc. There was a part that you could bring up and have delivery people sign with their finger for accepting shipments. I put a ton of work into that one.
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HaaZaa, the Nigerian Prince has fallen!
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
HaaZaa, the Nigerian Prince has fallen!
Now for loads of scams of people claiming that they are the real prince and pointing to this as proof that they can't be the scammer.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
HaaZaa, the Nigerian Prince has fallen!
Now for loads of scams of people claiming that they are the real prince and pointing to this as proof that they can't be the scammer.
The only problem I have is that these scams hae been around for a lot longer than 18 months, lol.
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@dafyre Well the guy probably made enough money off of the scam to get to the US (at which point he could be prosecuted.)
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre Well the guy probably made enough money off of the scam to get to the US (at which point he could be prosecuted.)
True.
