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Public area => The Pub => Topic started by: godboko71 on May 21st, 2011, 11:17 PM
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I know you all have mentioned there is a possibility for a portal in the future. So I have been thinking, is there a need for a portal?
Anyway I was thinking, and I don’t know how simple this would be. How about a configurable Front Page, this front page could grow into a content management system over time, but could start simple.
It would start out as a simple configure page with a few options:
- Normal Board listing and no Front Page
- Blog board set to default (Shows the blogs from the board set)
- FAQ Board set to default (see above)
- Board set to default (see above)
- Gallery set to default (see above)
- Template Override (For advanced users)
The Template Override would allow advanced users to show whatever they want on their front page. Be it a set of blocks, pulled content, what have you.
Long term this could lead to a pages module/add-on for static content, an articles module/add-on for more dynamic content (could have different article types with different fields ect ect.)
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I've actually raised this very thing myself because I actually need to implement this for InI...
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I've actually raised this very thing myself because I actually need to implement this for InI...
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I use a portal because I don't like landing on the boardindex and all I use is the frontpage, no side blocks anywhere in the forum. I display a welcome block, only the topics considered news and announcements, a few random images from the gallery and that's about it really. So what's described above would work just fine for me.
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Template overrides aren't needed per se-- could simply be a page pulled through SSI.php.
Wedge.org currently uses the same method as Noisen though: I hacked into BoardIndex.template.php to show my custom stuff in it. It's a bit ugly and won't be done this way in Wedge, of course.
Thing is, Dragooon is working on a portal for Wedge right now, and I do see myself including it in Wedge eventually -- he's a capable coder and honestly I could do with extra developers because it seems like it's never going to end for me, eheh.
So, we'll have to see.
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The template overrides is more so a person could mix blocks and their own content (be it ssi, api’s to other software, plain text.)
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......... similar to spoogs, a portal would make a great difference to me.
Gee up Dragoon :lol:
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A front page would not be the same as a portal. It would be a front page, and customisable but still JUST a front page...
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I am working on a simplistic portal/cms which is extensible enough to cater enough amount of needs. I'll be resuming work on it in a day or two, next up is pages.
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-sigh-
A front page would not be the same as a portal. It would be a front page, and customisable but still JUST a front page...
I am working on a simplistic portal/cms which is extensible enough to cater enough amount of needs. I'll be resuming work on it in a day or two, next up is pages.
Cheers
Billy
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A front page would not be the same as a portal. It would be a front page, and customisable but still JUST a front page...
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A front page would not be the same as a portal. It would be a front page, and customisable but still JUST a front page...
Anything else is not related to a portal per se, but is considered "portal business" because other portal software did it. (Pages, etc.)
I'm not very excited with the idea of considering pages to be part of a portal process, really.
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That's why I'm thinking of renaming to CMS or something like that, I haven't really decided on a name yet.
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But technically -- you don't need to give it a name if it's going to be in the Wedge core... It's just gonna be called Wedge :P
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And you're set!
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Waddayamean?
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Nothing, just that I don't need to think of a name now. I was at Dragooon's Awesome Portal for Wedge 1.0 - Draconian until I read your post.
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:lol:
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I would actually prefer a new SSI.php to work on the portal myself but a CMS sounds great!