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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