What about WordPress or something similar?

[Stefan Rotsch <linux stefanrotsch de>]

Hi all,

following the call for volunteers on a.g.o., I took a look at the ToDo 
list and thought by myself: Why won't they use an already existing 
platform instead of "reinventing the wheel". Why not starting with 
WordPress or something similar?

Some of my thoughts/reasons for this suggestion:

- Stability: WordPress & Co. are running in thousands of installations. 
There are communities contributing and fixing bugs (maybe this could 
prevent a.g.o. from being hacked again)

- Features: WordPress & Co. e.g. generate RSS (and Atom) feeds for 
nearly all and everything, and they usually don't break the feeds

- Accounts:  CMS offer facilities for managing user accounts, containing 
options for dealing with lost passwords (-> ToDo) or re-entering 
passwords when changing them (also on ToDo)

- PlugIns: New features could be easily implemented, and there are 
already lots of plugins available (for example, a "rotate banner images" 
plugin for WP comes to my mind (on ToDo))

Switching to a different platform will cause some work, but I don't 
think it would get too hard. Converting the a.g.o. look to a WP theme 
could be easily done in a couple of hours, for example. User accounts 
will be supported "out of the box", as comments and RSS feeds would be. 
Voting, Uploads, etc. could be realized using plugins, maybe by 
transforming the existing php code into plugins for the used platform.

What do you think?

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Stefan Rotsch

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