[Marketing] Re: [Magazine] Worpress Plugins to publish on downloadable format

[Justin W. Flory]

On 06/06/2016 07:38 PM, Eduard Lucena wrote:
>  Hi team,
>
>  I was investigating some wordpress plugins to make a monthly publication
>  of the Fedora Magazine, like I comment in the last meeting. A short list:
>
>
>  IssueM
>  https://wordpress.org/plugins/issuem/
>
>  The good thing is the autogeneration by date, issue-based publication
>  and simple configuration. GPLv2 Licence.
>
>  The cons: no table of content, no magazine cover, is just: publish this
>  articles and goodbye.
>
>  PDF Create Station
>  https://wordpress.org/plugins/kalins-pdf-creation-station/
>
>  The pros: Highly configurable, issue-based publication
>  The cons: One guy development make hard to update and get responses to
>  bugs and issues found in the plugin.
>
>
>  I need to run some test, but for now these 2 are the best options.
>
>  In other topic, I like to ask:
>
>  Is there a posibility to create a cover for the magazine? even if is
>  generic.
>
>  Is there a format to create a table of contents from the publications?
>  
Hi Eduard, thanks for taking the time to look into this and figure out 
what's available!

Looking at both, it seems like IssueM might be the better way to go on 
this because of its versatility and that it's easy to automate (by the 
sounds of it, anyways). I think it would be really cool if we could have 
a way to download articles as PDFs too (some of the Ambassadors have 
already expressed interest in printing out some of these articles, like 
the one of the school programs powered by Fedora that went out last month).

If you play around with either, let us know what you think of between 
the two and which one sounds better. It also sounds like IssueM is 
well-maintained and supported (which will be good for adding this as a 
feature that is maintained in the future, not blocking us from future 
WordPress upgrades).

As for creating a cover, I definitely think that's something that would 
be possible. Ryan might be interested in doing this specifically, or we 
could reach out to the Design Team if he's got a lot on his plate already.

A table of contents is something I don't know much about, but I imagine 
it should be possible within WordPress. I don't anything we have right 
now allows us to do this though.

Thanks for looking more into this! I'd definitely like to bring up this 
possibility with some others and see what their thoughts on it are.

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com