New theme for the Magazine

[Ryan Gauger]

Yes, I have been dealing with slow loading time on Fedora Magazine. I think we do need another theme, maybe less resource-hungry...

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Ryan Gauger, Nashville Notes Public Relations


On Nov 22, 2013, at 04:16 PM, "Chris A. Roberts" <croberts at cintrixhosting.com> wrote:

> I agree I think we can find a good theme or have one designed that would work nice with WordPress, the benefit of WordPress is the availability of hundreds of plugins out there. One being PressBackup that has saved our site once :) The good thing about WordPress on Openshift is the tools that we have to manage it and GIT.
>
> Also I have accepted a position at Red Hat as a Frontline Global Support working with Openshift/Cloud so if something really breaks we have a member of the Marketing team on the Support team :)
>
> - Chris Roberts
>
> From: "Mike Ruckman" <roshi at fedoraproject.org>
> To: marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:05:21 PM
> Subject: Re: New theme for the Magazine
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:12:31 -0700
> Joe Brockmeier <jzb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:14:34PM +0200, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote:
> > > Comments/Thoughts/Flames?
> >
> > At the risk of really opening a can of worms, the OSAS team is
> > migrating some of its sites and standardizing on Middleman - a static
> > site generator that is a lot more resource-friendly than WordPress,
> > and might be easier to manage.
> >
> > Would we have the interest/flexibility to consider that, or are we
> > tied to WordPress?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > jzb
>
> This seems really similar to Pelican (granted, I just spent a little
> time looking over their getting started page - so I could be wrong),
> which I use for my blog [1]. A static site with disqus for comments
> would be easy enough to manage.
>
> Still though, at it's heart we'd still have to come up with a theme
> that does everything we need. So I don't know that it would put us any
> further ahead if we switched tools.
>
> // Roshi
>
> [1] http://roshi.fedorapeople.org
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