Archive:WordPress CMS Option

Summary

A Little History (from http://wordpress.org/about/)

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

2005 was a very exciting year for WordPress, as it saw the release of our 1.5 version (introduced themes) which was downloaded over 900,000 times, the start of hosted service WordPress.com to expand WP's reach, the founding of Automattic by several core members of the WP team, and finally the release of version 2.0.

In 2006 we had 1,545,703 downloads, in 2007 we had 3,816,965!

Benefits to Fedora

For Fedora, WordPress provides many benefits including security, plugins and a large feature set. In addition, many people use WordPress as a CMS these days and there is quite a bit of development focused on WordPress as a CMS.

Project Website

http://wordpress.org

Requirements

(from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress)

• PHP version 4.3 or greater
• MySQL version 4.0 or greater
• (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

We recommend Linux with either the Apache or NGINX web-servers as the most robust platforms for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. If your host doesn't support one of these platforms, and mod_rewrite, you will probably be better off switching to one of the many hosting providers that do offer those choices.

Features

Must have

== Meets the requirement.

== Partially meets the requirement.

== Does not meet the requirement.

Requirement	Status
Good security record
Proactive, security minded developer community
Highly responsive, especially to security issues
Flexible enough auth system to attach to FAS via the json interface
RSS
L10n that doesn't break the translator workflow
Output for Transifex (PO/POT)
Content workflow (write <=> edit => publish)
Internal version control with rollback capability
Content expiration (automatic)
Multiple roles, e.g. writer, team lead, editor, publisher, managing editor
Categorize/tag content for easy base organization
Search that works
Be a CMS as a core function, not an add-on
Handle making certain pages or content areas static/non-database driven
Must not lock us in. Data should be portable to another CMS.
Packaged for Fedora

Like to have

== Meets the requirement.

== Partially meets the requirement.

== Does not meet the requirement.

Requirement	Status
OpenID	as a plugin
Good WYSIWYG editor
Easy to organize content by taxonomy, structured and ad hoc
Support for draft->review->$foo->publish workflows
Workflow to ship the content for l10n only at certain stages
Workflow go back to a certain stage if a mistake/error is found in the source-language content by the translator
Translators have a 'review' step in the workflow for translated content before it is published, so that they can see translations in context
Modern technology with a vibrant community and likelihood of being popular beyond the next twelve months
Good federation tools to make it easy to find disparate content through one UI
One set of things it is great at, not be all things for all people
Be a modular design (v. monolithic)
Have an active and large community
Have support for DocBook	as a plugin

Explanations

Several of the items above have been noted with 'as a plugin' next to them. This implies that either a plugin exists for the feature (usually accompanied by a ).

L10n that doesn't break the translator workflow

I am unclear as to this reference and what it implies. If there is a document that defines this functionality, I can re-explain it to the WordPress developer, Joseph Scott, and he may be able to give a better explanation.

IRC Interview

This information was gained from a chat with Joseph Scott who works for Automattic and is a WordPress developer. This chat was archived and can be read at WordPress IRC Chat Interview.

Contact

• Fedora Contributor: Clint Savage
• WordPress Contact: Joseph Scott