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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0011716mantisbtwebpagepublic2015-02-01 09:38
Reporterrakekniven Assigned Todregad  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Summary0011716: Your Blog doesn't link to your main page
Description

http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/ has no link to get to http://www.mantisbt.org/ easily

My idea: A navigation bar at the top would be fine.

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giallu

giallu

2010-04-02 15:55

reporter   ~0025002

have you got any wordpress customization skills?

I think we would love to make it more uniform with mantisbt.org main site and fix this issue at the same time

rakekniven

rakekniven

2010-04-03 05:34

reporter   ~0025005

I ran some wordpress pages for friends so I know a little about administration and theming.

Do you use an CMS for mantisbt.org?

How can I help?

giallu

giallu

2010-04-03 09:25

reporter   ~0025007

The site is just a bunch of custom built pages; it's all in our public git repository here:

http://git.mantisbt.org/?p=mantisbt-web.git;a=tree

so you should be able to grab from there the HTML/CSS code we are using and port it (I mostly mean the header/footer/color scheme part) to a wordpress theme.

Thanks for consider contributing!

rakekniven

rakekniven

2010-04-03 09:58

reporter   ~0025008

I had a quick overview about it!
Creating a wp theme is not done quick.

I have another idea:
What do you think of using a CMS like Drupal for your website?
You can easily put your content into it and have a lot of benefits like

  • integrated blog function (every dev can have it's own)
  • thousands of modules to extend your site.

What I can offer

  • Creating a drupal theme with your style
  • Administration help
  • Shifting content of existing pages

Cheers,
Mark

rakekniven

rakekniven

2010-04-05 05:06

reporter   ~0025026

I spend an hour to create a draft: http://mantis.rakekniven.de/

What benefits you get:

  • i18n, i10n for content, menus ...
  • User management
  • RSS aggregation (e.g. your blog)
  • Newsletter (incl. double opt-in)
  • Easily editing content without using php, git
  • Multiple contact forms (categorys)
  • Support of Captcha's (text, math, image)
  • many, many, more

What has not been done:

  • Migration of content
  • Adapting your style

Requirements:

  • php support
  • mysql database
  • ca. 15 MB webspace (it will grow with your attachments)

ok .. I will wait for your response before spending more time on it.

Cheers.

giallu

giallu

2010-04-05 11:12

reporter   ~0025028

I think that's a bit overkill for what we are doing today in the website, but I'll let other developers/admins chime in to decide what to do.

In the meanwhile, if you find a simple way to fix the present issue in the WP installation, feel free to ping me.

rakekniven

rakekniven

2010-04-05 11:34

reporter   ~0025029

Ok.

After many years of contributing to KDE my main wish was to use a CMS. GIT/SVN are not the best way to maintain a nice website. They keep a page static and slow maintained.

A CMS helps you to use functions which are already done and ready to use instead of building them yourself within many hours.

For WP I cannot provide a solution without digging into WP theming. I love drupal and know it a little ;-)

Cheers

yw84ever

yw84ever

2010-04-05 12:57

reporter   ~0025031

@rakekniven, thumbs up on http://mantis.rakekniven.de/

i like the direction

vboctor

vboctor

2010-04-14 01:53

manager   ~0025117

We are already have some dynamic aspects of the website like the blog/wiki, which we haven't been updating very often. So I'm not very optimistic that the website will be super dynamic once we deploy a tool like Drupal. I feel like we will end up having to maintain and patch yet another tool.

It is also not clear to me whether Drupal will integrate Word Press or replace it with its own blogging engine. Also I don't believe we would be interested in a blog per dev, given the frequency we are updating the common one at the moment. I think we need consolidation of useful data to our customers.

Just out of interest, does Drupal offer a good option from having one consolidated environment that achieves the following:

  1. Wiki
  2. Blog
  3. Forums
  4. MantisBT via a plugin.
  5. Documentation

This will give us one platform or even if we still use the standalone tools but integrate them into a CMS like Drupal, then we at least get single-sign-on.

rakekniven

rakekniven

2010-04-14 02:17

reporter   ~0025118

Drupal will not integrate wordpress. It has a very nice content engine which also provides blogging function. It handles content types e.g. before entering new content you have to select the type like page, story, blog, poll ...
Your Wordpress install does not provide SEO URLs. Drupal can offer "clean urls" and auto aliases which are SEO friendly.
e.g. instead of http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/?p=90 it would be http://www.mantisbt.org/preselection_of_next_highest_value_in_Change_status_to_dropdown

Drupal has no powerful wiki function like mediawiki or dokuwiki.
Blog > Yes
Forums > Yes
MantisBT via a plugin > Just found a drupal module for user management http://drupal.org/project/bugbits
Documentation > You like to create your documentation inside drupal and export it to other formats?

As mentionened above I would offer my help for maintenance.

rakekniven

rakekniven

2015-01-15 08:28

reporter   ~0042165

My basic issue "http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/ has no link to get to http://www.mantisbt.org/ easily" is still open.

dregad

dregad

2015-01-16 05:44

developer   ~0042172

Fixed.

You can now link to http://www.mantisbt.org/ by clicking the blog's title, and go to the blog's home by using the eponymous menu item.

While I was at it, I also added a link to the bugtracker.