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Re: Recommended Content Management System?

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Jul 20, 2002 at 15:28 UTC ( [id://183605]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Recommended Content Management System?

I'm curious as to the drawbacks of Slash. What do you mean? I'd also throw AxKit in there for the sake of completeness. (Everything seems like a bit of overkill.)

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Re: Re: Recommended Content Management System?
by Jazz (Curate) on Jul 20, 2002 at 21:10 UTC

    From everything I've previously seen and read about it (up until your reply made me dig deeper), Slash didn't suit the purpose because it permits users to submit top-level posts, or "stories". We need a system that permits only a handful of people of our choosing who can post articles and tutorials. A "features list" or more thorough description of what Slash does or doesn't do would have been helpful. I couldn't find anything that remotely resembled an official features list on slashcode's site.

    I looked at many of the sites that run Slash, and they all look pretty much identical with the exception of a few simple color differences. They all have the site logo on the left, the search box on the right, two link columns on either side, the slash credit on the bottom, the left column always has the polls, "Most Recent Journal Entries", "Older Stuff", etc. This would indicate to me that either it's not a trivial task to make the site conform to a different look and feel, that they all prefer the standard Slash look or that 90% of the users are lazy ;) Perhaps it's that they are "working on the documentation".

    But! There were a couple of sites using slash that looked and behaved exactly like what we want.

    I'll download Slash, run through it and see how it goes. Thanks!

    Jasmine

      You can disallow user submissions, and the standard system does permit editors to choose exactly what to post and where. All of the look and feel is done through templates (Template::Toolkit, even!), and is highly customizable. There's even a handy plugin mechanism, where you can do offbeat things.

      I suspect the users are, in fact, lazy. I certainly am. :)

        Excellent! I'll get on it this week.

        Thanks much,

        Jasmine

      I happen to co-run a slash site. We started running it in the slashcode 1.x days (still using 1.x now, actually). 1.x can be a real pain to configure, otoh, it is a pretty scalable and flexible system. I've heard the Bender codebase (2.x) is a lot easier to use. As far as users submitting top-level posts/articles/stories, is this really a bad thing? You do have complete editorial control over what gets published in the slash system as a top-level content node (i.e. story/article).

      I don't know if this is a factor, and I've heard it's changed in 2.x, but slashcode is a pain to virtual host.


      --
      "I aim for the stars. Sometimes I hit London."
      ~ W. von Braun
Re: Re: Recommended Content Management System?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2002 at 12:19 UTC
    As someone who has used Slashcode for at least three sites I can confirm there *are* drawbacks. 1) Lengthy setup time, and steep initial learning curve, even if you buy the book co-written by chromatic :-) 2) No simple way to modify the workflow (it is set up for the Slashdot.org workflow and no other) 3) Not easy to modify the layout of the main index pages 4) Does not work straight out of the box (but that is perhaps the same point as number 1) I'd seriously looking at Squishdot (a Zope product) for my next slashcode-like site. PS I'm Alex McLintock - not "vroom" - is this a security flaw? or is "vroom" the "Anonymous user"

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