Re: [Popcorn] wordpress integration

[David Humphrey]

Hey Matt,

This sounds really interesting, and we'd be happy to help your students
as they do the work. A big push for us with Popcorn Maker this year is
deep integration in social media platforms, and your idea of integrating
with WordPress is pretty similar in its scope.

Please encourage your students to post to introduce themselves on the
list, or ask technical questions in dev-p...@lists.mozilla.org, or
better yet on irc.mozilla.org/popcorn.

I'll leave further thoughts below.

Dave

On 13-01-29 10:38 AM, Matt Price wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> I have two ambitious student projects that will require integration of
> wordpress with popcornmaker, so I'm going to bite the bullet and try
> to take on the taks of developming one. Has anyone made progress on
> this front lately? I'm trying to think of what is required for it,
> and it seems to me roughly to be something like this:
>
> - run a dedicated local instance of popcornmaker
The only downside to this architecture is that it will require one to
run WP plus a node.js instance, database, etc. Have you thought about
doing something where you iframe the editor into WordPress and use a
Mozilla instance of the app?

> - replace persona authentication with wordpress-internal
> authentication, or get wordpress to generate a persona or persona-like
> token for PM (I have no idea how persona reallyworks so I'm not sure
> if that's easy or near-impossible).
See:

*
https://webmademovies.lighthouseapp.com/projects/65733/tickets/3009-publishing-wo-persona
*
https://webmademovies.lighthouseapp.com/projects/65733/tickets/3008-pluggable-authentication-system

It would be great to start on that second ticket first. Jon Buckley
(jbuck on irc) could likely provide a plan for them.

>
> - replace the internal wordpress editing apacities with the PM
> interface, probably by generating a lightbox that activates after some
> basic information is entered into the default editing interface
Still thinking that doing a Popcorn Maker UI that fits nicely in a WP
editor box div's dimensions, and use an iframe would be awesome. That's
what we're going to do for mobile, facebook, etc.
> - get PM to "save" projects directly to the WP database, rather
> than/in additon to its own internal saves.
> - somehow co-ordinate between WP and PM templates
>
> ... for a start. Anyway, mostly wondering if anyone has given this a
> try yet? If we can make this work, it could be the start of a VERY
> cool & ambitious oral history project. Since many (most?)
> technically-inclined public historians are WP users, it would be cool
> to show this off to the profession (at HASTAC in April?)
>
> Ths for hte help,
> Matt
>