It's been an interesting thread, as someone who regularly uses WP for 'websites'.
Going back to the original question we had a custom HTML 'site' built that ran on a Mac Mini using the eCrisper kiosk software, connected to a Philips touchscreen. You may have seen it if you went to any of the Government Art Collection exhibitions in London, Birmingham and Belfast. Worked like a dream with a startup maintenance applescript, ran for a year and a half with no maintenance required at all.
I don't see why this couldn't be done using WP instead of the custom 'site'.
Tony
Government Art Collection
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
Sent: 29 November 2013 17:47
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Wordpress on gallery
WordPress is *so* far from being just a blog these days. Maybe so 3 years ago but it's all about the CMS now...
Mike
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On 29 Nov 2013 17:35, "Tony Crockford" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2013, at 16:44, Joe Cutting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > In theory there's no reason why you should use wordpress to build
> > touch screen gallery exhibits.
>
> Interesting stuff Joe.
>
> Our kiosks are optionally supplied with locked down computers capable
> of running a complete web server in standalone mode, so you don't need
> an Internet connection, the only issue for standalone mode is updating
> the data, a scenario we have several options to overcome.
>
> We usually install a flavour of Linux and use the built in LAMP[1]
> stack to run WordPress i.e. running a locked down web browser in kiosk
> mode that displays pages served from the built in web server.
>
> We use the Operating System screensaver technology to reset the kiosk
> - some of our exhibitions drop to a welcome page, some play a video on
> loop until touched, when they then enter the exhibition at the start page.
>
> WordPress isn't *just* a blog.
>
> We've used it for all sorts of web presentations and with the custom
> post capabilities and multi-heirarchy tags and category stuff built in
> to the WP core it lends itself very well to creating exhibitions of digital objects.
>
> It has a huge community of developers supporting it and as such
> removes any proprietary lock-in issues and visual presentation is
> limited only by the imagination of your designer.
>
> I think you _were_ being a bit negative.
>
> :o)
>
>
> [1] Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP - the building blocks of a *lot* of the web.
>
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