On 04/03/2017 08:18 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > PS I am a little confused about why you are interested in Wordpress on > Debian given your statement "I avoid blogs and web based support > groups". > It is none of my business, but Wordpress is one of the most used > blogging software applications on the planet......
I'll take your postscript first as I think doing so will shed the most light. Just because WordPress is at the top of the blogging market does not mean it has no other strong points :} It has what it calls "static pages". Looks and acts like a typical webpage. I had apparently not mentioned some historical details _on this list_. I am a member of a church which once had a website. Our new pastor wanted to revive that idea. We hired a consultant to implement and host the site - he had used WordPress to implement sites for other churches. My involvement will be routine maintenance not justifying billable consultant time. I need to get familiar with using WordPress. No way am I going to use a live system for my education. My personal system is Debian. A couple of clicks in Synaptic got me WordPress on Apache's 'localhost'. It runs fine and updating *content* is well thought out. I'm exploring the feasibility of some visual tweaks, likely involving use of a child-theme. As to why USENET or "mailing lists", I'm intrinsically text oriented and the GUIishness of blogs creates a nearly impossibly poor signal to noise ratio. I'll have to double check, but I think I've already been down the path you related in the major portion of your post. I asked on this group because having already done web searches I need to ask a question that INTRINSICALLY can *not* be answered by a web search. "Has any human reading this list, in their journey thru life, encountered a non-bloggish forum where "WordPress on Debian" would be a socially acceptable topic?" Google et al can not parse that question. It's trivial for humans. The universe of possible answers has exactly two members, "yes" and "no". _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
