Some of you are only following the link to my root page. *The actual pages linking to Wordpress/DSpace galleries are at the bottom of this page!* Here is an example of a direct link to one of these featured hybrid galleries: https://montaguearchive.org/index.php/hurricane-of-1938-page-3/
On Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 1:32:27 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Has anybody explored using DSpace with Wordpress? I would like to have a > conversation with developers and users about how this may be best achieved. > > Our website, montaguearchive.org, operates under our own rented web > server and has both Wordpress and DSpace services integrated within the > same server. Our Wordpress is intended for our curated and promotional > content, while our DSpace houses and makes available our digital > collection. Each of these services were designed for different purposes and > I think it is important to explore ways in which a small historic > organization may be able to combine the strengths of both. > > Dspace doesn't seem too friendly for visitors who just wish to browse and > be introduced to things. I have had complaints about this. On the other > hand, Wordpress is simple and good for producing quick, good looking > websites. Do any of you host a 1000 page wordpress site? What do you think > of the Wordpress 'Media Library', once it gets big? Wordpress has it's > limitations.. > > Take a look at the links on this page: > https://montaguearchive.org/index.php/2021/03/30/hurricane-of-1938/ > > I am not a professional programmer, but I have hacked enough php code to > get these linked pages to produce galleries of content directly from our > DSpace PostgreSQL database. I wrote this code about a year ago, so forgot > much of what I was doing. Basically, I believe I used a single column CSV > file of URIs (for each page) in DSpace and communicated directly within my > local server, using CURL, to retrieve DSpace content and populate a gallery > page in Wordpress. Those of you who are interested may try this above > example now and return to this thread for discussion. > > I am hoping new ideas, suggestions and solid examples may develop here to > expand the idea. > > Comments? > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/d6ab11b9-297c-4654-91f5-c12e292568f7n%40googlegroups.com.
