Quick Blogcast vs ?

First I looked at GoDaddy Quick Blogcast, This works fine, is extremely quick to get going with, but is single author only without paying extra for a Blogcast account and has allowed me to publish rapid updates of articles as to fishing match lengths in use, not that many people were reading at the time. So this did the job in the short term. But after 6 days I decided it was not good enough.

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WordPress vs others

I already knew of WordPress, which is very robust and fairly quick to reconfigure, and Wiki based collaborative software e.g. WikiBlog and MediaWiki, these last 2 are much more for collaborative groups where most people both read and write articles. In our situation there are only a few writers, there should be a lot of readers, who you would like to have the ability to comment when they want to, and your regular commentators can be promoted to be contributors or authors. The commenting should capable of being being moderated, either pre-moderation or post-moderation and by multiple moderators. You can host free but with advertising supported blogs and less ability to add functionality at www.wordpress.com. The associated www.wordpress.org is the project software support and download site. GoDaddy have a very simple one or two click setup system to add WordPress and many other packages to your site.

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Setting up with WordPress

It took about 10 minutes to setup and a short evening to configure to my initial tastes, but I’m a tinkerer rather than setting out a design in one go. Sort of suck it and see, take feedback and advice from our readership. If anyone dislikes the current themes, or any articles they can easily be switched-out or changed in response to feedback.

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Registration

You need to register to comment, since there are morons out there generating comment spam even with BOTS trying to do that anti-social activity automatically. Some users will be trusted to submit articles, one off articles can always be submitted by email for posting, people can be made contributors – where they can submit articles for moderation, authors when they have gained more trust – can post and edit their own articles, editors (only commitee members) where they can edit their own and other peoples articles and moderate them. There is always the ability to take down bad articles completely and/or to revise them and republish them later. Articles can be started, left unpublished as drafts, you can come back them and finally, publish them when you feel they are ready for public view and be revised as necessary in response to feedback and advice.

Flexibility

Articles can be made to be readable only by logged in users, hidden to all except editors, password protected, linked into series (via plugins). We are likely to have many articles kicking around as drafts that most users won’t see until they are ready. Most simple comments will appear almost immediately, but when they hit certain criteria they will be held for moderation. Registering is also very quick and simple you only need to supply an email address, which will never be passed to anyone else.

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Costs

The WordPress Blog does not cost any more $ (and I mean $US) on the account.

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Initially I set up the blog, so that it had to be entered specifically from places in the main set of static pages. It could be found at saltaire-aa.org with links to it on the front page and the committee contacts page. Later I modified things so that it goes straight into the blog still at saltaire-aa.org and out to the more static pages when required. Content can be changed on the fly, new content is seen when the home page is reloaded, modified content is seen by readers the next time they refresh a page after it has been modified, or a new search is made whether by text, category or tag (if the content matches the search criteria).Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5

Extra functionality

WordPress can have a lot of extra functionality added from its fresh install state by using plugins. In fact the sliding notes you see on this page are implemented using a plugin. There are plugins in use to build A..Z indexes, tables of contents, block spam, change time settings for DST, check for broken links, load a random article, format foot notes, have multiple authors, provide granular visibility, display time to events, calendaring events, add mapping into articles, support series of articles, sliding notes, nice notes, statistics, allow loading of one post/page to link to another page/post even external pages, provide ticker functionality, improved registration functionality, automatically backup the database and eventually even online shop functionality and a whole lot more.
Plugins used

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• About December 23, 2011
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• Yearbook data May 24, 2011
• [Waters] February 20, 2009
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    • (Sunrise / Sunset)* June 18, 2009
    • Lock Codes December 30, 2011
      • Lock Codes Admin September 3, 2010
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    • Bait restrictions June 1, 2009
    • Fish kills May 29, 2009
    • Weather – BBC (3 Days + Latest Obs) May 15, 2009
  • Leeds Liverpool Canal July 4, 2009
  • River Aire July 4, 2009
  • River Wharfe – Linton Falls July 4, 2009
  • Tong Park Dam December 10, 2011
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• [About] December 30, 2011
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