WordPress

What is Wordpress?

WordPress is a CMS relased under GPLv2. You can download it on http://wordpress.org/, and you can find and download plugins and themes on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/.

Howto set an IMC with Wordpress?

You can set an IMC site installing WordPress and the IndyPress plugin. This plugin is avaible on its SVN repository: http://code.autistici.org/p/indypress.

IMCs using Wordpress

http://napoli.indymedia.org and Roma are currently working on WordPress.

http://abruzzo.indymedia.org and http://piemonte.indymedia.org are working to migrating to WordPress.

About Indypress

Developing

MailingList: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-wordpress-dev

MailingList archive: http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-wordpress-dev/

Wiki: http://code.autistici.org/trac/indypress

IRC: #indypress channel on irc.indymedia.org server

Download and install IndyPress

The simple way

Open the plugin page, search the plugin with IndyPress and install it!

The repository way

Download zip archive (You need subversion and zip packages on you linux system)

1. Run in a terminal svn co http://code.autistici.org/svn/indypress
2. Go to indypress directory with cd indypress
3. Run bash makezip.sh into terminal, that generate the zip archive of IndyPress

Install into WordPress

1. Go to admin area of WordPress, in the Plugin section
2. Upload indypress zip archive as a new Plugin
3. Active the plugin and enjoy to IMC world!

Features

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Translations

IndyPress is currently supporting i18n!

Supported languages: English, Italian.

Configuring Indypress

See http://code.autistici.org/trac/indypress for guide.

Configuring, optimizing and extending Wordpress

AntiSpam: WP Captcha Free works well

Caching: WP Super Cache or w3total cache or Varnish+wp-varnish plugin

Embedding: Embedly

Forcing HTTPS: WordPress HTTPS

Importing Feeds: FeedWordPress