Old site, new CMS (i.e. WordPress)

  • I used to have a site which used to run multiple installations of NucleusCMS. It used Nucleus at a time when WordPress still didn’t have the theme system. So Nucleus seemed a much better deal. More so since Nucleus is fluent in allowing design flexibility. But the problem with Nucleus (it still is) is with multiple categories, etc. For complex sites, this feature is a must. I have since transformed the site into WordPress. It uses two installations in fact. But that is because the two are totally separate.

    The first (actually the core of the site that existed) is here: https://www.northeastvigil.in/archives/

    It is a news site. The transfer of items is still on, but it will give you a fairly good idea how it looks like and how it has been structured. It has taken an awful lot of time to transfer the database. Nucleus, if you remember, has a multi-blog functionality – a definite plus point over WordPress. I have imported the database manually. With around 20,000 items of a database of multi-blogs and categories, it was a hassle. Slightly unnerving too. All I need to do now is asign all categories to all items. Slightly boring this is ?? More than half of this has been done, and show it can be shown here ??

    Most of this site looks the same except one set of categories and subcategories which acts as a microsite in itself. See it here: https://www.northeastvigil.in/archives/?cat=64

    The second installation is actually in an encyclopaedia format. For almost a year I have flirted with Drupal, TextPattern, NucleusCMS, etc, but none of these would fite the requirements. Both design flexibility and structure somehow was difficult to find in one CMS. Until, of course, I decided to settle for WordPress. This could have been done with TextPattern too. But that needed too much of homework to be done. And I really wanted to get cracking with it.

    You can see it here: https://www.northeastvigil.in/facts/

    My only grouse with WordPress now is that I have had to tinker around with the core files a bit. Not with the script itself so much. But for the design element.

    Reactions, suggestions, ratings, please.

    Cheers.

    Subir Ghosh
    https://www.northeastvigil.in

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  • looks pretty good to me. a couple suggestions/ideas, based on your comments –

    I think it’s well worth the effort to clean up the code so that both the html/xhtml and the css validates at the w3c.org validator. this makes adding new features, etc go much smoother in the long run.

    WP “plays very well with others”, in other words, it’s a great platform for integrating with other things as you need them. Typically for myself and for clients, I’ll do a xoops install “under” wordpress (as opposed to using wordpress as a xoops module) when I set up a site based on wordpress, the xoops cms, then allows the addition of a tremendous amount of very powerful features, and is quite easy to tie into the existing WP install, and to apply the same theme/styles to.

    that’s my 2cents.

    Thread Starter subirghosh

    (@subirghosh)

    Thanks for pointing that out Chris. Validating wasthere on my mind but had forgotten it so conveniently. ??

    I will get that done.

    Tx.

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