[Ubuntu-SG] WordPress and OpenID

[suhaw koh]

Hi CDR,

WordPress does support OpenID:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/

Cheers.



suhaw

On 17 May 2010 15:33, C David Rigby <c.david.rigby at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Monday 17,May,2010 03:28 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
>
> Okay, this may not sound good but what we can do as alternative is to run
> the blog, forums and wiki differently. I agree this would be a chore since
> we would need to log in multiple time. But I personally think that by having
> them on different places or on different platform would ensure that on of
> the service is up when the other need to be down for maintainance.
>
> And yes, wordpress is multi-user and should be able to handle it quite
> well?
>
> With regards,
> Yi Hao
>
> Greetings Yi Hao,
>
> Yes, the administrative overhead for multiple sites on multiple hosts would
> be significant. Multiple accounts for the users could also be somewhat
> tedious, though the burden can be eased by using CMS packages that support
> OpenID.
>
> I would be less concerned about up time issues. Our problem at the moment
> stems from using hosting provided by a member who is no longer able to work
> with us due to other commitments. The server is obviously still there, since
> it is showing the off line maintenance mode message. Using a large service
> provider such as Amazon would further insure reliability, I would think.
> Still, outages are rare even for the smaller shared hosting services I've
> used in Singapore.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>  +65 98574690
> yihao.ho at gmail.com
> yihao at statick.sg
>
> Store Admin,
> Statick.sg,
> Singapore's Premier Entertainment site.
>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Prakash Advani <prakash at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:49 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 17,May,2010 03:16 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:26 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 17,May,2010 02:47 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got a few question though. Must the site be on drupal? I can help
>> maintaining if the site was on wordpress or something.
>>
>> Hello Yi Hao,
>>
>>
>> I freely admit to being a Drupal partisan. Yes it is harder to learn, but
>> it provides much more functionality and is far more customizable. It is
>> designed to be a CMS for building online community sites.
>>
>> I am not wedded to it, though. If we, as a group, want something else,
>> fine. Wordpress seems to me to be primarily a blogging-oriented CMS, but I
>> admit that I do not know it nor the full extent of its capabilities. AFAIK,
>> we could get a free WordPress blog on the wordpress.com site. Does that
>> meet our needs?
>>
>> I have used Wordpress, its easier than most other content management
>> systems. Use it if you are happy with blogs/static pages and photo album..
>> but don't need any more features (wiki, etc)
>>
>> However drupal and other content management systems will offer more
>> features like Wiki Modules.
>>
>> Whats important is also who is managing the site and what tools they are
>> comfortable with.
>>
>> I am quite comfortable with Wordpress and run my own Blog:
>> http://cityblogger.com . I am happy to help.
>>
>> My suggestion is as follows.
>>
>> - We can leverage some cloud instances offered by Amazon to host the
>> website.
>>
>> - I have shared hosting on Dreamhost and I also also provide some hosting
>> space.
>>
>>
>> Hello Prakash,
>>
>> Thanks for the input and the offer of support. Can you point me to links
>> on the Amazon service?
>>
>> Amazon EC2 offer cloud services.
>>
>> Kingsley Wood (copied) from Amazon is offered free credits to people
>> attending my talk.
>>
>> Can we given them credit in terms of putting their logo of they provide
>> this?
>>
>> My blog space is still available.
>>
>> BTW Wordpress is multi user..
>>
>>
>> As far has hosting on your account, that is great. We would not need a
>> great deal of storage.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>>
>> What sorts of maintenance tasks would you be comfortable doing? In other
>> words, to you want to write articles, do administrative work, some
>> combination there of?
>>
>> Cheers
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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