I hate Wordpress!
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I've just spent the last three days trying to get WP and theme called Fruitfull to do basic things. Things like getting the menus to go to the right pages and only show the "widgets" on the blog pages and not all the site. Why is WP so popular?
I spend my days building web apps. I have to think about the logic of how things work and give my users flexible control that's simple and easy.
So C5 fits with my thinking I'm sure could do anything with it, I love it!
So why the WP affair?
I want our editors to build pages on their tablets. WP has a great mobile app and that's the only reason I am considering using it.
If C5 had some kind of composer app thingy I'd be sorted.
If this is on the horizon or anyone is thinking about developing something please let me know. I'd pay:)
I spend my days building web apps. I have to think about the logic of how things work and give my users flexible control that's simple and easy.
So C5 fits with my thinking I'm sure could do anything with it, I love it!
So why the WP affair?
I want our editors to build pages on their tablets. WP has a great mobile app and that's the only reason I am considering using it.
If C5 had some kind of composer app thingy I'd be sorted.
If this is on the horizon or anyone is thinking about developing something please let me know. I'd pay:)
For me the administration area/dashboard/file manager is far too complicated for tablets. All those hovers and popups. I tried with the blog author hub which kinda works, but the composer page lets it down.
A simple interface like the WP app or a cms like Respond and the editors could get on with adding content very simply. These are not web people, they write stuff and take pictures.
I'm thinking about just writing and app that feeds data to the C5 site nothing to do with C5. Hang on, maybe you could just feed from another source?
A simple interface like the WP app or a cms like Respond and the editors could get on with adding content very simply. These are not web people, they write stuff and take pictures.
I'm thinking about just writing and app that feeds data to the C5 site nothing to do with C5. Hang on, maybe you could just feed from another source?
Chad has a way of doing that from pro-forms into publishing pro-blog pages. There is a worked example on his blog.
For more granular control, you can assemble a form to page front-end interface using an assortment of my Magic Data family addons and Blocks by Ajax.
For more granular control, you can assemble a form to page front-end interface using an assortment of my Magic Data family addons and Blocks by Ajax.
Thanks guys. Looks like ProBlog is the way... Goodbye WP it has to end! - it's not me it's you.
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Chad needs to put me on a commision :-)
@Johnthefish - it's true.
Yeah, so ProBlog has three ways for you to allow users to post.
1) from their user profile
2) from the dashboard by placing them in the ProBlog Editor group and granting them dashboard visibility
3) Using ProForms and having them submit a post to which you then can "publish" and approve a post.
Option 1 is likely what you will want. Placing users in the ProBlog editor group will allow them to only submit drafts, whereas approvers need to approve the post.
Placing a user in both the ProBlog Editor & ProBlog Approver will allow them to post draft and publish.
ChadStrat
Yeah, so ProBlog has three ways for you to allow users to post.
1) from their user profile
2) from the dashboard by placing them in the ProBlog Editor group and granting them dashboard visibility
3) Using ProForms and having them submit a post to which you then can "publish" and approve a post.
Option 1 is likely what you will want. Placing users in the ProBlog editor group will allow them to only submit drafts, whereas approvers need to approve the post.
Placing a user in both the ProBlog Editor & ProBlog Approver will allow them to post draft and publish.
ChadStrat
I think the only way is with your app. Logging into C5 directly isn't what I wanted.
Oh, you mean external.
Gotcha.
ChadStrat
Gotcha.
ChadStrat
C5's Interface is responsive bootstrap and works fine on tablets. What else do you need to have it work?
With advanced permissions you could simply set up a C5 installation where a certain user group can only access certain things and thus - restrict to "page creation ability" through composer.
Or it you could specify what else you need / what does not work well - maybe there's already a solution.
I think ChadStrat has some iOS App for the administration of his ProBlog add-on, I think I've read about that somewhere, but I don't really see the difference between a web (network)-dependent App and a responsive Website. For me, "Mobile App" really means "Can use without actual network access".
How do you think about it?