@jac yes, there’s a load of possible integrations, and several you can do yourself (as I do) with JavaScript
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac yes, there’s a load of possible integrations, and several you can do yourself (as I do) with JavaScript
Brilliant, sounds positive! Yes mate a one off payment for the theme. It’s looking to be the best I’ve found so far.
I wonder can something like your RSS parser run with this?
@jac not natively, but ghost also has an API so with some modifications, it’s possible.
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac not natively, but ghost also has an API so with some modifications, it’s possible.
Sounds great Mark! That’s something that I’d hoped you’d say 
.
I see Ghost are running Discourse as their forum software… always liked the look of it but so costly to run I believe.
@jac said in WordPress site:
@jac said in WordPress site:
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac enjoy. Feel free to ask questions of course. There’s also a good level of support on their forums
https://forum.ghost.orgLooking good… Just looking for themes
to find some.
Going back to this, having had a pretty extensive look for themes this probably is the best one for what I need it for.
@jac said in WordPress site:
always liked the look of it but so costly to run I believe.
No, actually you can self host Discourse - see below
https://sudonix.com/topic/86/nodebb-vs-discourse/7?_=1643973071754
The problem with this is that it is based on Ruby and requires it’s own “docker” container. Not a simple setup to maintain if you’re a beginner.
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac said in WordPress site:
always liked the look of it but so costly to run I believe.
No, actually you can self host Discourse - see below
https://sudonix.com/topic/86/nodebb-vs-discourse/7?_=1643973071754
The problem with this is that it is based on Ruby and requires it’s own “docker” container. Not a simple setup to maintain if you’re a beginner.
Thanks for the link mate.
I do like it but I think it’s best to stick with NodeBB .
@jac said in WordPress site:
@jac said in WordPress site:
@jac said in WordPress site:
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac enjoy. Feel free to ask questions of course. There’s also a good level of support on their forums
https://forum.ghost.orgLooking good… Just looking for themes
Going back to this, having had a pretty extensive look for themes this probably is the best one for what I need it for.
Without setting out a big list the main thing I would require from Ghost is:
A nice theme
Good intergration of plugins
Ability to import RSS feeds
A wierd one, but to have it looking like and functioning like a football site, with widgets, league table etc.
@jac said in WordPress site:
Ability to import RSS feeds
See this
https://ghost.org/integrations/custom-rss/
@jac said in WordPress site:
Good intergration of plugins
The list of “plugins” isn’t extensive for Ghost - can you elaborate a bit more on what the requirements would be ?
@jac said in WordPress site:
A wierd one, but to have it looking like and functioning like a football site, with widgets, league table etc.
Certainly possible, but may require custom code
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
See this
Official Ghost + Custom RSS Integration
I believe this is only if you wish to create a new RSS feed for your content?
So forum.domain.com will host the forum and the main site a domain.com will hopefully import RSS feeds and articles written by myself and hopefully others ( something which I wanted to do with a general football website) and alongside that will have a fixtures page and league table, tickets information, fan information etc just like the forum pages do currently.
@jac said in WordPress site:
I believe this is only if you wish to create a new RSS feed for your content?
Yes, you’re correct. Sorry
@jac said in WordPress site:
So forum.domain.com will host the forum and the main site a domain.com will hopefully import RSS feeds and articles written by myself and hopefully others ( something which I wanted to do with a general football website) and alongside that will have a fixtures page and league table, tickets information, fan information etc just like the forum pages do currently.
Yes, that sounds fine.
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
Yes, that sounds fine.
Maybe build up and do a podcast with it, prediction league etc.
@jac said in WordPress site:
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
Yes, that sounds fine.
Maybe build up and do a podcast with it, prediction league etc.
Baby steps at first of course! It’ll be a new system for me, one which is more set up for bloggers but hopefully it’ll work out for me as a football (county) based site.
I just need to find the right domain and have a good think whether this sort of thing is needed.
@jac No issues. Let me know !
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac No issues. Let me know !
Thanks mate.
It’ll take:
A new domain
Getting to learn a new system (although by the sounds of it it’s relatively easy)
A lot of patience
Finding a way to import RSS feeds
Setting up forum on a sub domain
CSS changes
Links to the forum at the bottom of posts?
And more…
Like I said above, I need to see if all this is necessary. There isn’t any blogs/ news sites so there is scope but do people really want to read content anymore? I fear not.
@jac said in WordPress site:
@phenomlab said in WordPress site:
@jac No issues. Let me know !
Thanks mate.
It’ll take:
A new domain
Getting to learn a new system (although by the sounds of it it’s relatively easy)
A lot of patience
Finding a way to import RSS feeds
Setting up forum on a sub domain
CSS changes
Links to the forum at the bottom of posts?
And more…
Like I said above, I need to see if all this is necessary. There isn’t any blogs/ news sites so there is scope but do people really want to read content anymore? I fear not.
Basically a site that includes all content in one place.
