[wp-hackers] Wordpress as a CMS

[Peter Westwood]

On 23 Dec 2009, at 07:08, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Peter Westwood wrote:
>> BackPress.org has more info.
>>
>> The activity on BackPress has been decreasing partly because there  
>> isn't much that needs changing in it and partly because very few  
>> people know it exists.
>>
>> There was a huge spike of activity at the beining of the projects  
>> life when all the code from WordPress was imported - the shared  
>> code hasn't changed that much since then so it is unlikely to have  
>> increasing activity by its very nature.
>>
>> I am trying to keep the code in BackPress that is also in WordPress  
>> in sync so that one benifits to the fixes from the others.
>
>
> So you peaked my technical curiosity and I started reading the  
> website but there doesn't seem to be anything that tells one how to  
> get started with a sample app.  IOW, there's no "Hello World"  
> example.  Also, I couldn't find anything on URL routing.
>

The best place to start for an example of use at the moment is  
probably GlotPress as that was built using BackPress from the ground up.

BackPress itself doesn't have a basic url router at present and I  
suspect different projects are doing things in different ways.

GlotPress has one implemented here - http://trac.glotpress.org/browser/trunk/gp-includes/routes.php

I am in the process of implementing a different one for another  
project which I hope to get an early alpha of out soon.

I think in the long run it would be good to have a basic url router  
included in BackPress or maybe even a couple of different ones for  
people to pick and choose from hopefully this is something that will  
come from more people using it.

> Any chance you could write a blog post on the topics?
>

Once I have some code to share I will definitely write some stuff up

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