Item1290: Foster Blogging and News on Foswiki.org

We want to better our communication with the world. That is why we have set up a WordPress-Blog at http://foswiki.on-the-net.de.

MartinSeibert has an admin-account and a valid FTP login. We have a virtual Server with 512MB RAM and 5 GB hard disk space.

The following tasks are open:

• Find out, if SvenDowideit and ArthurClemens will help with WordPress solution. (MartinSeibert)
• Update the WordPress 2.6 to WordPress 2.7.1 (IT colleagues of MartinSeibert or anybody else, that can do the job)
• Set up a nameserver entry for http://blog.foswiki.org, that points to the IP address 81.3.45.113. That is where the blog is. (SvenDowideit)
• Start blogging. (MartinSeibert)
• Offer WordPress accounts for everybody in the community, that wants to joing blogging. (MartinSeibert)
• Integrate last 5 blogging entries on Foswiki homepage. (SvenDowideit)
  • How can we insert the RSS-Feed of the weblog on our Website?
    • There is the HeadlinesPlugin -- AndrewJones - 25 Mar 2009
  • I would like to exchange the Project Update section with the future blog posts as soon as we have 5 news.
• Integrate blogging entries in our Twitter feed and on the Facebook page and other possible syndication platforms. (MartinSeibert)
• Integrate WordPress in Foswiki.org as much as possible
  • Tweak the WordPress templates, so that they look similar to our Foswiki homepage. (ArthurClemens)
  • Sync login credentials from Foswiki.org to WordPress.
• Work out the benefits of WordPress as a separate solution. (MartinSeibert)
  • We could save a lot of effort by using a Foswiki blog solution (i.e. the styling and login credentials sync no longer needs to be addressed). It will also show how flexible Foswiki is. It looks bad to have a Foswiki blog extension that even we wont use. -- AndrewJones - 25 Mar 2009
  • Please refer to OurBlogTalk for the answer on this. -- MartinSeibert - 31 Mar 2009

If you need server or admin logins, just contact me. -- MartinSeibert - 14 Mar 2009

Thank you all for your help. -- MartinSeibert - 14 Mar 2009

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Further reading on the issue:

• OurBlogTalk
• CreateWeblogAndNewsletter

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I sent a mail to Arthur and Sven to ask them for their support: http://tinypaste.com/be81f -- MartinSeibert - 14 Mar 2009

The first two blog entries are live already: http://blog.foswiki.org -- MartinSeibert - 15 Mar 2009

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Closing stalled process.

-- MichaelDaum - 13 Sep 2011