Re: [LUG] website

On 3 Nov 2015, at 13:28, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joseph, sorry but that's blinkered and wrong thinking.

I think you would be astonished at how much of the web is run on wordpress, and how many major companies use it as a backend. It's far from a toy.

http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

On 3 November 2015 at 13:25, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK a bit selfish, but I have a problem accepting word press as viable long term cms solution and thus count myself out of any effort to use it ongoing

IMO its a toy being used where you should have something more robust in place like Drupal or umbraco. Almost every wordpress site I'm asked to advise on is a f&* up.

On 3 Nov 2015, at 11:54, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On 03/11/15 11:40, Simon Avery wrote:
>> Perhaps the best thing is to get the existing site back up for now
>> (forcing password resets...)
> Clearly the issue here was that I set the passwords on the idea they
> would be sent out and people would pick up the notification and change
> them with the links provided,
>
> However on getting the site back up.
>
> Is it that important we get it back up quickly, there are quite a few
> plugins that may, for security reasons need to be reviewed, there is
> other content that can be moved around (try looking at the mint
> tutorials and the menu is low down so goes off screen)
>
> I don't think there is a pressing need to rush, maybe being off line
> for a month, while we fix it, but have a way for visitors to be
> notified,
>
> Right now the text file that lists the events has plain text e-mails I
> know this is a BAD thing, to just copy / paste this info in to the
> site. So perhaps we need a contact section so people can use the
> website to send e-mail and there is a captcha to stop spam / robots.
>
> I do agree with the integrated list sign up thing not sure again how
> best to implement this. I think iframe was suggested.
>
> lets NOT rush things, and make more work for people who are already
> very busy later on. But have a clear time scale and objective.
>
> We could re-launch for 2016 with a vastly improved website.
>
> Paul
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