Gaurav
Roller has been made up from ground zero as a network of bloggers
or enetrprise blog network. There are many advantage of this approach.
Though individual can also use it. Companies like Oracle and IBM use it.
-arvind
On 29 November 2013 19:56, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, there are nice-looking media share buttons available by third parties
> (e.g., AddThis: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/
> entry/apache_roller_blogging#rol10). I don't think we need to re-invent
> the wheel by developing (and needing to maintain) our own, especially if
> they end up looking not as good as the commercial equivalents. Also, I'm
> reluctant for us to standardize on one company's media buttons, partly
> because we're a non-profit and shouldn't be sponsoring a particular
> commercial company's widgets over the others.
>
> As for Google Analytics, which I also use, again, there are multiple
> companies offering similar services and I'm not sure we want to tie
> ourselves down to a single commercial company. (Some don't like GA:
> http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/why-i-am-
> dropping-google-analytics-in-2013-piwik-here-i-come/) A blog owner just
> needs to plug in the maybe 6-line snippet provided by the company into his
> blog template for tracking to be activated. Not much is gained by already
> coding in an empty snippet where the user will have to plug in his tracking
> code vs. just having the user copy-and-paste the entire snippet. Another
> problem with the former is once the snippet changes it's a maintenance
> headache on our side to keep it up-to-date. Also, if a user doesn't use GA
> the blog may still be alerting Google even if no key is put in the snippet;
> users might not appreciate Google being informed without their knowledge of
> everyone who is hitting their website.
>
> If Roller was a programming language, it would be 3rd generation language
> not a 4th generation one like WordPress or Google Blogger where everything
> is done and pre-packaged for you. Its niche is primarily Java developers
> who don't mind working directly with Velocity, Tomcat, MySQL, 3rd party
> widgets, search engines, usage trackers, etc. in exchange for having full
> control over what they want to do. It is all this freedom that is probably
> why you came to us instead of WordPress/Blogger, starting to push users
> into particular 3rd party services would probably be a step back for us.
>
> That said, this is just my $0.02. If you put your theme in GitHub we'll
> all have a better idea of what you have in mind.
>
> Cheers,
> Glen
>
>
> On 11/29/2013 08:37 AM, Gaurav wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I found the social media share buttons missing in Roller. I have
>> implemented it in my theme, Is there any specific reason that the social
>> media share plugins are missing ? Also, we can have google analytics
>> tracking code by default in the themes so user just have to place there
>> GA-ID to activate tracking. As all blogging platform provide this thing by
>> default, what you suggest ?
>>
>>
>
