Blog

This is not a blog. It is a page describing my attempts at merging my Mediawiki-based sites with Wordpress software.

Why not stick with the wiki?

I will for my own "lab notebook" here on Wildsong.biz but I need something on http://GEO-CEG.org/ too. The wiki on Geo-CEG will be used as a documentation repository.

I also need to consider bbPress which is a Wordpress forum software package.

My requirements

Workflow management would be great

Database backed? Don't care, text only would be fine

Roles and authentication - someday an OAUTH2 thing would be great but I have enough on my plate already. I want the two packages (wiki and blog) to use the same MySQL database for now.

Software

General reference on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_software I tried a bunch of different packages out and ended up staying with Wordpress.

It is installed but now I need to integrate WP and Mediawiki. I don't want all the Mediawiki URL's to break. I want to have a WP front page with access to the old content undisturbed.

So I guess that means the top level index.php page has to be smart enough to know what to do.

Having single sign on for both systems would be nice but not important since only 2 or 3 people actually do edits in the wiki part. Allowing discussion pages is a big goal.

Wordpress + Mediawiki integration options

Here are some of them.

package	comments	link	updated
Wiki Embed	embed any wiki content in wp 9000 downloads 4 stars	http://wordpress.org/plugins/welcomewiki-lite/	2013-08-13
Wikiful Mediawiki Bridge	3500 downloads 4 stars	http://wordpress.org/plugins/wikiful/	2013
WPMW		http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WPMW	2013-08-05
PhotoCommons		http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PhotoCommons