Okay, so I can't make extra stuff with UNA(due to my own lack of coding skill), but the social element of UNA works.
The solution I apply is to mix UNA with Wordpress, using - Iframe pages in UNA.
UNA become the main Site and WordPress as a sub-site, I call [services.site.com]
That way there are never any conflicts between the Service part and the Social part.
I can get Wordpress to read profile info from UNA and use that for people writing reviews on the Service Site.
It might not be the optimal solution, but it is the only solution I can find, which doesn't require me to use time on heavy-duty UNA development.
Since UNA is a framework, I imagined UNA as a car. Only the frame and the engine is there. You can add a basic paintjob, but the steeringwheel, the tires, doors, seat and everything else, you have to make and install yourself. It runs, but doesn't go anywhere.
Fortunately I can use my Mercedes with UNA.
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Question for information, what do you do with WordPress that you can not do with una?
Yes, you're right, that's what I wanted to ask in fact.
WordPress has an abundance of community plugins for all kinds of purposes. From the most ridiculous to the most useful. even the ridiculous can be useful at times. The Marquee might be old-fashioned, but I found a new use for it on my site. Fortunately the marquee is part of the HTML vocabulary.
Here at UNA - you have an awesome body, but with almost no clothes. As attractive that might be, I prefer to see my woman with clothes on most of the time.
I can see that it is going to take a lot of time before any accessories become available that are not overpriced(compared to the WP accessories). So my solution is to join Wordpress and UNA together in two separate domains, using Iframe. So far the result is satisfactory. I dont even need to transfer data back and forth from the two systems. The only grand piece of work involved, is to find a very simple WP template and then cancel the header content. Once it is done - the result is not bad at all...
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Wordpress has lot of features missing in UNA
- mod_rewrite Titel to URL for SEO purposes
- lot of templates, which can be simple customized
- adding categories on demand
- widget areas which can be highly customized
- articles/site can easily be edited with the "Edit" button in the front end view
- plugin support is amazing
- User menu automatically adds new links if you want to
- fully control of tags, categories, add meta data for SEO
Simply the usage is a lot better. UNA´s backend looks a little bit like the scripts
ever looked years ago. NO intuitiv usage possible.
And many missleading unlogically thinks - like when i search here in discussions,
i have to choose a category sometimes, sometimes not....
Or when i click in the search an articel it leads to the profile and so on.
A community system should be state of the art - and wordpress has done that job since it existed.
I only use UNA because the point system and the Affiliate plugin which i really need (but it´s not tranfered to una)
Hi Pethol,
May I kindly recommend you to just work more on UNA or ask professional help from UNA team to realize your ideas.
UNA is capable of many things it is a wonderful tool to create different kinds of portals.
I agree that in the world of coding, there are no limits. The problem is, that i refuse to code webpages in assembler And I am no master in HTML, PHP, JAVA and CSS.
I like to work rather than talk. I find people talk too much in general. The time they used on blabbering, they could have used to just do the job. Actually I think that most talking or debating is more a form of justified procrastination.
Gosh! If we talked about everything in my unit in Syria during combat, we would have been dead a thousand times by now. Unless educational, most talk is cheap.
Pethol plugging in Wordpress to UNA might sound like a simple answer to your problems - but I suggest that using iFrames is probably going to introduce a new level of complication to your development. Better to spend the time getting UNA to do what you really need it to rather than taking a shortcut now. We are happy to support you as required.
Thank you Mark. It's not that there is anything wrong with UNA and she will be staying as my main woman. My 'problem' is the lack of accessories.
If UNA was a woman, she would be bitching you guys every single day, for not having enough accessories to wear. :-) She's certainly bitching me!
But yes. Iframes has their problems and they are not a permanent solution. But for demonstration use - they will work fine and I need that most of all right now.
Now after yesterday's announcement from the PM, I'm even harder pressed for time than before.
Also I don't spend all my time on this project. I have other jobs as well, I need to take care of. Working for a government like this is not a laid back job.
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Hi mark I sent a message earlier about Iframe, but I like your suggestion, and would rather use UNA, there is a caveat though as Pethol said there are a plethora of pluggins and features in wordpress which are well documented, whereas UNA is a long process of trial and error, especially for the new developer who is just learning the framework, I see that the documentation is getting better however my needs are quite urgent. Please provide steps of how to do so, If I were to provide access to my other webapp which I would like to house within the UNA echo system as an embedded site, and give members to my site access to the webapp right from within my UNA homepage. I haven't found any documentation to show me how to do so, so your professional help and advice would be highly appreciated.