On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Nick Rosser <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted, > > Lots of questions :-) Thanks for the interest ... I'll try to answer them as > best I can: >
> One last > question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to > what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, > but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to > set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products > (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses > them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know > OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to > me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. > > NICK: not entirely sure to be honest, not sure I quite understand. The > digital content can be nicely accommodated but it would really depend on > your detailed requirements. > > Well, I have not yet really made sense of the support that OFBiz provides for digital content, save that my imporession is that it is suitable for individual, stand-alone digital products (videos, photos, novels in PDF format, &c.). However, it seems certain that however good that support is, adding a digital product to an ecommerce store selling digital products will not compare to what is possible when using WordPress. WordPress, as you may know, is commonly know for supporting blogging, but what seems less well known is that it is the software used to support many electronic journals and 'virtual newspapers'. It has built in support for different kinds of users, from mere members (those who only read the content), authors, and editors (who full the corresponding roles in regular new magazines and newpapers). Often, membership is free, but for commercial sites, one pays for membership, and the sites provide some free content as a kind of advertizing. Thus, what I have in mind involves a multisite WordPress installation that serves all content (both excerpts presented as ads in an estore, and the paid content). Thus, the shopping carte/checkout pages from OFBiz/BiFish would have to be seemlessly integrated into the WordPress site (not so much in terms of being embedded on the WordPress pages, but with the same look and feel, and seemless navigation between the two so that the user does not realize that the ecommerce pages and the content pages are coming from two different servers). Some time later this summer, I expect to be hiring a PHP programmer to add a sharable, searchable read-only archive to my Wordpress site in such a way that any author writing for any Wordpress site I am hosting can dynanically link to sections of documents in the archive. This model allows authors or journalists to include a great deal more detail and analysis in thier articles. in any event, I need a viable solution to make it easy for them to both advertize their content and get paid for it. I know some approach the problem by buying or developing an ecommerce plugin written in PHP to add onto WordPress, but I figure I ought to be able to support this using the ecommerce capabilities of either OFBiz or BigFish. What do you think? Cheers Ted
