Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx and Wordpress?

[Tom Masterson]

I believe it is part of wordpress but I will have to look when I get to my 
computer which won’t be till later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Tom


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> On Jan 2, 2023, at 16:48, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> To insure I am following, there is a plug in called classic editor?
> I may be able  to allow dreamhost  the chance to create a test environment 
> for  me, they did offer.
> Granted they use an older edition of lynx, but I do appreciate what you 
> provide here.
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, Tom Masterson wrote:
>> 
>> I have 4 sites that I work on all in Wordpress.  The accessibility of 
>> editing them depends on what plugins you use.  She classic editor is very 
>> easy to use and in many cases I simply use lynx and if it is a large Chang 
>> pull it to vim and then save it back to lynx press tehe save button on the 
>> page and press on.  For things that need to be pretty I ask my wife for help 
>> as colors and image placement have little meaning for me.
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jan 1, 2023, at 18:51, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> I agree with ease, my personal site is in html, so  when I have to change 
>>> things  like a phone number, I can just use an editor.
>>> However, this site will be new.
>>> dreamhost provides the WordPress tool, but they also just provide regular 
>>> ftp for uploading.
>>> If I could find  someone willing to do the work, I would just  pay them 
>>> within, reason.
>>> Everything will be local, as in in my dream host workspace.  just desire a 
>>> tool, and since WordPress is offered, thought I would ask.
>>> Keeping in mind that I use shellworld, although I do have links for DOS on 
>>> my computer, any easy creation tool that is not WordPress  then?
>>> Karen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2022, Tim Chase wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2022-12-30 23:42, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>>>> While I generally have few issues accessing WordPress created
>>>>> sites, at least the one I have encountered, that does not necessarily
>>>>> translate to the tool itself.
>>>> 
>>>> If I understand correctly, I believe you're talking about the
>>>> accessibility of the admin/authoring portions of Wordpress which
>>>> is independent of the accessibility of the resulting site published
>>>> using Wordpress.
>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone successfully use WordPress with Lynx?
>>>> 
>>>> It's been a while since I've played with an install.  If the
>>>> admin/authoring panel isn't accessible from lynx (which might well
>>>> be the case since there was a major shift a while back in the
>>>> content-editor widget, changing from a more straightforward text
>>>> entry box to a rich-edit box), there's "wp-cli" (https://wp-cli.org/)
>>>> utility which lets you manage just about every aspect of a Wordpress
>>>> install from the command-line, including posting and comment
>>>> management.
>>>> 
>>>> That said, unless I *have* to use Wordpress for something, I generally
>>>> prefer using a static site generator (SSG) to maintain my personal
>>>> sites.  I use a combination of Nikola (https://getnikola.com/) and
>>>> a custom SSG that I wrote for my own uses depending on which site.
>>>> But there are lots of others like Hugo or Jekyll.  Big advantages
>>>> include:
>>>> 
>>>> - everything is local
>>>> 
>>>> - the generation process just creates an "output/" folder that you
>>>> can copy up to your server however you want (whether FTP, rsync,
>>>> scp, or some web GUI)
>>>> 
>>>> - there's nothing dynamic on the server that could be exploited/hacked
>>>> since it's all just text files
>>>> 
>>>> - the resulting pages are FAST even on a ridiculously underpowered
>>>> VPS instance or shared-hosting box
>>>> 
>>>> Anyways, just a collection of my random thoughts & ramblings.
>>>> 
>>>> -tim
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>