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Re: Rebuilding the Textpattern demo site
Bloke wrote #297811:
Ah, so instead of just saying “Try Textpattern v4.6” it offers you options of trying … and each one has a different set of default content and maybe back-end options?
Sounds great, but really I meant it much simpler… (also in the interests of it remaining feasible)
I was thinking of just one demo that is a bit more fully-fledged than the one-page start configuration so that you get to play about with a typical site. Thinking aloud:
- Maybe something like a typical portfolio site with an about section and blog section: you get to show how sections work, how categories work (for portfolio types), how images are linked in, how comments work and how a link list works, how monthly archives work, and pretty much all of that can be done with standard tags (give or take).
- As “icing on the cake” an admin-side dashboard (smd_tabber) with, I dunno, “recent articles”, “new comments”, “latest images”, possibly some standard tasks like “write an article”, “show portfolio items” (=article list by section), “add a new image” etc. That’s the kind of thing I set up from time to time for clients.
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Re: Rebuilding the Textpattern demo site
jakob wrote #297810:
(BTW: Imogen has long hair – very windy in central Germany too)
I shot this video about an hour ago, about a mile from my house. It’s usually more like this photo (both safe for work).
Bloke wrote #297811:
And each one has a different set of default content and maybe back-end options? That’s probably what Pete meant in the OP when he referenced “different versions with as-released content” […].
As I interpret it, there are a few demographics that this site will serve:
- Textpattern users who need to test/try/break something quickly, without the barrier to entry of building a test setup.
- Textpattern users who want to test/try/break something on a blank canvas, without the barrier to entry of building a test setup.
- “Huh, Textpattern, what’s that? Oh, look — a demo.” (without the barrier to entry of building a test setup)
Phase one is rebuilding the server with:
- stable release, as-released
- dev release, as-is
Get that done & secure, squirt it to another couple of servers around the world, and move to phase two:
- stable release, zero content
- dev release, zero content
That’s achievable with some SQL. Should be straightforward. After that:
- stable release, plenty of demo content
- dev release, ?plenty of demo content, perhaps
That’s SQL and shell script territory, once the content has been decided.
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Re: Rebuilding the Textpattern demo site
gaekwad wrote #297815:
I shot this video about an hour ago, about a mile from my house. It’s usually more like this photo (both safe for work).
Wow! Dramatic video. Nice corner of the world you live in. No sea here for 500 km…
Everything else sounds good.
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