Re: [Hampshire] Village History Website

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Author: Chris Dennis
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Village History Website
On 05/05/16 17:09, Tim via Hampshire wrote:
> On 05/05/16 16:02, Chris Dennis via Hampshire wrote:
>> On 05/05/16 07:14, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:
>>> On Wed, 4 May 2016 22:42:26 -0700, hampshire@??? said:
>>>
>>>> It’s not much data, and I think you can just let Wordpress find the
>>>> assets on disk
>>> I concur. You're trying to fix a problem you don't have (yet), and
>>> Wordpress frequently handles large sites without much problem.
>> Thanks all for your replies.
>>
>> I think I will stick with WordPress. I was worried that users would
>> get bogged down trying to find documents and images in WP's single
>> list, but I'll try the 'Pods' plugin when looks like it can make it
>> easy to add more post types ('documents', 'maps', etc.) and ways of
>> categorising them.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
> Would there be anything in using some form of photo album like Gallery
> (http://galleryproject.org/) to display the documents? I don't have any
> experience of this other than having a small photo gallery on one of my
> sites, you might have to scan and save them as jpg rather than pdf??
>
>
> Tim

Thanks for the idea, but no -- this project will be more than just pictures.

In fact we've found an excellent site, the quality of which we'll aspire to:

     http://www.eastmeonhistory.org.uk/


This site does uses... WordPress.

Cheers

Chris

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