Technology behind the community website

Friday, 17 June 2011

This post replaces an obsolete static page of the Canadensys website, which was last updated on May 28, 2010.

The community portal is powered by WordPress, an excellent and easy-to-use open-source Content Management System (CMS) using PHP and MySQL. It allows us to create blog posts, update pages, add translations and edit settings from a well designed administration back-end.

We are also using the following WordPress plugins:

• Broken Link Checker
• Disable WPautop
• Disqus Comment System
• FeedBurner FeedSmith
• Google Analyticator
• qTranslate
• Index manager: our own plugin to automatically add an index of h2 titles at the top of a page, using some jQuery (see example). The index can be activated with the custom field pageIndex. Sadly, we haven’t found the time to publish it to the WordPress community. Contact us if you want to help us out.

Icons used on the site are created by famfamfam.com. All content of the site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Use a standard compliant browser like Firefox, Safari or Chrome to enjoy the site at its fullest.