Posts marked with the tag “cms”
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Categorization bug in WordPress
Thursday, 26th November 2009 • Internet • No comments
I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own server is supported mainly by community effort instead of a dedicated team means that when a particularly unusual bug crops up, it’s difficult to get a response or solution quickly.
The problem I’ve been noticing over the past few months is particularly annoying, and there seems to be no obvious cause. Searching Google and the Wordpress.org forums has found no reference, so I can only assume that something within my own configuration is awry. I will continue to search for the problem, but here’s a breakdown of what’s happening.
When I create a new article (which WordPress calls a “post”), I assign it to a category using a list I defined when setting up the site. The problem comes when re-editing the post: in many instances, the system then adds the post to another category at random when saving. I can only surmize that WordPr
Newspaper publishing in today’s online world
Monday, 30th June 2008 • Work, Writing • No comments
I joined a newspaper company in 2001 to help maintain and develop a newspaper CMS system, which the development manager began creating on his own in 1994. In the past seven years, we’ve brought in web browser interfaces, RSS feeds, AJAX data handling, online publishing tools which allow the output to be sent direct to our printers, some 100 km away. The whole pre-production process for online and print output is controlled through our custom CMS. We’ve improved the public site, added loads of functionality and both brought in and removed features which have been cool and which have been faddish. We have around 30,000 visitors per week (it’s a local paper) and the CMS has needed maintenance and work from day one. It’s a great system, customized for our own needs and yet portable, saleable as part of a publishing concept which has been pushed internationally in the German-language newspaper market for the past four years. Editors, journalists, entrepreneurs and business managers have been bowled over by what it