The other other Derek here, (hm... this might get confusing considering myself and other Derek also share the first letter of our last names as well, maybe I can be Wordpress Derek and he can be Chisimba Derek, which looks interesting by the way)
I think if you can get Exhibit broken into the smaller pieces that it will definitely be able to integrate into Wordpress and others such as Textpattern, Mephisto, and Radiant. Or even really any blog CMS framework that you have access to the templates, and/or plugins. And we all know bloggers could find this useful if they want to display a "details" view of their list of music or books. A a timeline view of the posts they create. I think the Tiled view will be the hardest sale to a blogger as there are already so many image galleries that integrate into the blog ie. Flickr. It wouldn't be to difficult to create a widget that would create either a whole page for Exhibit in much the same way Mike and I have set up, nor would it be difficult to create a plugin that places one of the UI points into the sidebar and even have the references being created dynamically into the head of the template. The only problem right now is that because of how Exhibit loads data through flat *.js files or the google spreadsheet files, which is easier to update, it doesn't integrate so well into the backend. Which now that I think about it, some sort of editor could be created that would look at all the various "keys" and create some editable fields to add more entries view old ones and delete/edit them. I could possibly create a script that makes the *.js file writable thus allowing it to be updated. It would be probably more widely excepted though if Exhibit could somehow be modded to read directly from the Blogs own posts. I think that's probably the biggest problem, as you wouldn't be able to do a search or have any of the Exhibit content listed elsewhere on the site. Right now it's sort of it's own entity existing within Wordpress. It would be nice if the blog and exhibit content could live together. That might be a little out of the scope of your thesis. If and/or when Exhibit gets the separation treatment I'll definitely be all over the integrating scene. Can't wait. Cheers, Derek Derek Kinsman The Idea Company New Media Designer http://www.ideacompany.ca/ http://boring.ambitiouslemon.com/ 1.416.371.5652 David Huynh wrote: > Hi Derek, > > Perhaps with your expertise on PHP and Ruby, and particularly blog > engines like Wordpress, you could help us consider how such changes to > Exhibit might make it easier to write blog widgets for Exhibit. For > example, once Exhibit's UI is broken off into smaller pieces, can each > piece be coded into a widget and then a blog author can drag and drop > them into some layout template in a WYSIWYG fashion?... > > David _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
