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I made my own CMS just for this, to collect stuff in one place and then maybe use that elsewhere. At first I did RSS -> third party sites -> Twitter and Faceboo
by PavlovsCat 13y ago
I made my own CMS just for this, to collect stuff in one place and then maybe use that elsewhere. At first I did RSS -> third party sites -> Twitter and Facebook, but I got tired of that after a while (I'm not really using either, so why spam stuff there), but just knowing that I could do that is kinda comforting. For now the only "syndication" I do is to output nodes text/images in JSON to make mashups that automatically grow as I add and tag content in the "repository", or to output links to mp3 files as playlist for a flash audioplayer, etc.
I initially planned to open source it, but then I decided I'd rather just do my own thing without having to worry how it works for others, and especially how they would upgrade it when a new version comes out. But I recommend it wholeheartedly. Make your own CMS and have it do exactly what you need it to do, with all the metadata you could possibly want!
For example, recently I added the ability to add a date to nodes, as exact or rough as I want (millenium, century, decade etc up to specific days... I don't even have a use for that currently haha, I just wanted to have it). I don't just have tags, I have several taxonomies, some just visible to myself, nodes are nested in two ways (imagine every comment here could also have a "subtree" of comments, ad infinitum), and I could even use it to make something forum-like if I wanted to, since each node has settings for who may attach what to them, and who may attach what to those nodes in turn, several levels deep. It was a lot of work, and the code sure is ugly, but so far I have seen nothing out there that even tempts me to switch. Nothing fits me as well as the glove I made for myself :)
- davidhariri 13y agoLove to be able to see this glove!
- PavlovsCat 13y agoOkay then.. I didn't wanna post links, because I've been hellbanned here before, and am paranoid about identifying myself for that reason, but just for you I'm making an exception, may it inspire you greatly :) http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/ http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/ is where all the content lives, at http://johann-lau.de/ http://johann-lau.de/ you should see a photo slideshow which comes from http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/photos/ http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/photos/ and be able to toggle a music player that is fed from http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/music/ http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/music/ (the music is my shame, I can't even master myself out of wet paper bag haha, using free beats by people who know what they are doing is one of my resolutions this year), the music player is also shown at http://aww.johann-lau.de/ http://aww.johann-lau.de/ if you scroll up, hover over the bird and then the musical note. http://ilikehopefulstreetart.johann-lau.de/ http://ilikehopefulstreetart.johann-lau.de/ only shows a subset of the photos (all photos that have the the tag "ilikehopefulstreetart" in a hidden taxonomy), and there is also http://favouritequotes.johann-lau.de/ http://favouritequotes.johann-lau.de/ which is very simple (click to display a new quote, they all come from http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/favourite/quotes/ http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/favourite/quotes/ ). I'm yet to combine random quotes with random photos. Oh, There is also http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/meta/ http://a.sandboxx.org/johann/meta/ which are mini-mashups if you will, that reference : my code is not very D.R.Y., but the resulting website kinda is ^^