And best yet, you'll get to submit the patches yourself :-) On Mar 3, 6:29 am, "michael.twofish" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll take a slightly different tack than Rick, though I wouldn't > contradict > anything. > > Habari won't meet your needs out of the box right now, and will > require > changes to make it work the way you want. But those changes aren't > going to be > horrible hacks, they're going to be the implementation of what will > come > eventually anyway. And best yet, you'd get to have some say in how > those > things work in core. > > On Mar 1, 11:32 pm, rick c <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Welcome, craayzle. I hate to say it, but at this point in its > > development, Habari may not be the way to go to meet your goals for > > the site. While Habari can serve multiple sites from the same code > > base, each site has to be created and installed individually. While > > the creation and installation can be scripted, Habari currently has no > > internal mechanism to do the creation. Once they are created, there is > > currently no way to administer each of the sites centrally. While a > > plugin to do so could be written, and is something I'd like to see, > > the capability isn't built in. Nor, at this time, are sites that live > > in subdirectories (i.e., mysite.com/myblog ) possible. One can make a > > site appear as if it lives at such a location, but to the best of my > > knowledge, only once per site. This functionality is intended in the > > future. Improving Habari's multisite capabilities is the intended > > focus of Habari 0.8, but it isn't possible now. > > >http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Multisiteshowshow multisite > > installations are handled at the moment. If you look > > athttp://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Installation#Predefined_Configuration > > , you'll see how a pre-filled out configuration file can be used to > > automate installation. > > > Regarding some of the other features you listed, if plugins for the > > functionality don't already exist ( take a look > > athttp://habariproject.org/dist/plugins > > ), plugins for most of it should be possible. > > > Fima Leshinsky already pointed you to the list of Habari powered > > sites. I don't know which of these are large or heavily customized. I > > do know some individuals are using Habari in client work. Such work is > > one source of the issues we find need improved with Habari. :) > > > Rick > > > On Mar 1, 1:18 am, craayzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > For the last couple of months I've been learning/developing on WPMU. > > > It's been pretty painful. This post does a decent job describing that > > > pain:http://www.phpvs.net/2009/12/08/an-exercise-in-wordpress-integration-... > > > > I'm looking to build a site that, at it's core, is a cross between > > > WPMU and Ning: a multi-site install of WPMU + Buddypress. More > > > specifically, any user should be able to register for their own site > > > (e.g. user1.domain.com) and on this site they can create as many blogs > > > as they wish (e.g. user1.domain.com/blog1). I believe Habari supports > > > this type of multi-site install. > > > > In it's full maturity, the site will have (in order of priority) > > > > * premium services with pay-pal integration > > > * facebook/twitter activity feed integration > > > * iphone/mobile phone support (both publishing and viewing) > > > * social networking features > > > * ad-revenue sharing > > > > It's possible to put together a prototype of the above in WPMU and I'm > > > getting close to shelling out $$$ to have someone develop it, but > > > longer term Wordpress just doesn't seem the way to go. > > > > Is Habari the right platform for me to build on? Can you point me to > > > any "large" and/or heavily customized sites running Habari or _any_ > > > sites running Habari for that matter? Anything else I should know > > > before taking the dive? > > > > Thanks in advance for reading and replying and great work so far to > > > all the contributors, it looks like a great product!
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