I decided earlier on that I wanted to have a blog running Habari; it is one thing to write nice things about it and quite another to use it in anger and live with it over time. I mentioned the flickr integration on twitter and more details were asked for so that that is the purpose of this post.
I had started a blog to write about photo techniques (what few I have) but never did much with so this seemed well placed to convert to Habari. I deleted the WordPress files, added Habari and it is up and running.
I haven’t done much to it yet. Over time I will tinker and learn. You can find it here: http://www.eloquium.co.uk
Habari comes with some plugins bundled, two of which I used on the new blog. One is a WordPress database importer which seemed to work well, the other a flickr gallery. I have taken a screencast of the gallery and included it below.
You should note that I haven’t used WordPress to integrate with Flickr so I don’t know what the plugins are like. If you have used them then please drop the name of the plugin and any comparisons you would like to make with the video.
If you haven’t tried Habari, whatever the reason, you should also have a look at my last post where I asked for people’s reasons why they haven’t given Habari a try.
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ZATZAi, actually Habari is set up to end up being an even better CMS than WordPress. The number one reason is out extensible content-type system: you’re not locked into just having entries and pages. To add a new content type, it’s just a matter of adding _one_ line of code to a plugin. Additionally, the publishing interface is completely pluggable so plugins can easily add custom fields. Examples of new content-types we’ve been able to develop are: events, plugins/themes (for our repository), and podcasts. We’re also working on a cool system of sorting out where different content should show up in a theme (ex. put pages in the header, entries and podcasts in the content area, and events in the sidebar)
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Morgante, I haven’t tied the others yet but I noticed that they were available, thanks for bringing it up.
ZATZAi, good point. I am conscious that this is a WordPress blog but Habari fascinates me. I must try and get the balance right. I haven’t tried Habari’s pages yet, but it has them.
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How much is Habari paying you, and when will this blog’s name be changed to Habari fun?
Just kidding! I couldn’t resist that one. That is admittedly some pretty sweet looking integration they have going there. Habari does look interesting, personally I’d be most interesting in how it performs as a CMS, that what really drew me to Wordpress. That and all the plugins it supports.
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Thanks for the post! Nice screencast.
It should also be noted that it’s not just Flickr we support: there are plugins for storing files on your own server (standard uploading), Viddler, YouTube, and even last.fm. The Core API makes it very easy to build plugins (which we call silos) that integrate external services.