On 29 Nov 2013, at 16:44, Joe Cutting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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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