I'm having trouble deciphering these statements. For clarity: -Blog and Wiki will be same platform, not same visually. -The forums and wiki are considered "core EMC" website. -They (forum & wiki) will be aesthetically consistent with each other, and not suck visually. Is this accurate?
Correct. We might have limitations in header information (IE: accessing forum PM's/Alerts) as doing something like that would require loading wordpress and xenforo both for every page... But we can get close in visual appeal.
So the app I am making relies on the HTML of this site being what it is now. How much will the HTML change when the forum is upgraded? Also, what are some examples of other sites that have the same version we will be upgrading to? This will help me if the forum update changes the important parts of the HTML.
The HTML shouldn't change much unless the core of the template system changed in 1.2/1.3, which I don't think happened.
The HTML is changing probably 100%.... We will be leaving this theme, and moving to a responsive theme. It's also not a good idea to rely on exact HTML structure, and reduce targetting of data scraping to be more exact. But you'll likely need to update the app once this is done, however if you are working on a mobile access to the forums...a main benefit of this update will be making the forums mobile friendly.
I'm interested to see how the wiki is going to work with Wordpress... Wordpress is meant to be used for blogging, not Wikis Correct :3
Not anymore. WordPress has evolved into a general content management system, and used by plenty of businesses to power the website. It's just a really well designed system for managing content. When you look at all the professional WordPress themes these days, its for website layouts, not blogging. http://my.studiopress.com/themes/ http://themeshift.com/
The good news is that the part of the HTML that the app cares about is staying the same. this means that the new site won't break the app but I will be ready in case it does. The app doesn't rely on the entire structure, but instead focuses on about 4 lines for the thread detection. The actually thread reader relies on one line to tell it when to start and another for stopping.
Sorry to bump an old thread but.....any development updates on upgrading the site? Just wondering because it's been 2 months since the last update and I was just wondering if there has been any progress.
Just seen this and thought I should make a comment on it... I have no idea what I was talking about when I said "Wordpress is meant for blogging, not wikis'. The second iteration of the wiki, which I helped work on with JackBiggin and mba2012, was made with Wordpress. Silly me
