On Thursday, 9 June 2016, Justin W. Flory <
jflory7@gmail.com> wrote:
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@gmail.com