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Why does oxwall use wordpress for blogging? [Answered] | Forum

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Joseph
Joseph Jun 18 '14
Why does oxwall use wordpress and not its own blog plugin?
The Forum post is edited by ross Jul 6 '14
ross Team
ross Jun 22 '14
we use wordpress software, because it is mainly intended for blogging and has tools which native oxwall plugin does not have. 
Joseph
Joseph Jun 22 '14
why do you not just put those tools into native oxwall? why not make oxwall the best?
Joseph
Joseph Jul 4 '14
bump
Pete
Pete Jul 4 '14

why don't oxwall build a plugin so we can all use wordpress


JB Tech (FoxTechs)
JB Tech (FoxTechs) Jul 4 '14
There's, in the development world usually, a line between great features and features that work/make sense for your software. Oxwall is an Open-Source social networking or "community" software, meaning it and it's features are aimed at letting people run social-based websites where users can interact and create content.


Wordpress is a blogging software that is also open-source, meant for letting people start up their own blog; and with an un-modified version of WordPress installed you can easily see it just includes the features you'd expect for a blog. Any mods for social interaction or things like ecommerce are able to be added thanks to third-party developers making plugins for said software.


The same is for Oxwall. It comes with expected social networking/community website tools and features like Newsfeed, Chat, Groups, etc. And while the Blog plugin could use a bit more focus in the future, I believe having a huge WordPress inside Oxwall plugin would not only be a bit unusual to have, but it'd make no sense in terms of development for the software. If Oxwall was meant to be a software for simply social-based blogging, then it would make sense to have such a feature or tool available, but that's not what Oxwall is.


Developers however, can simply make a said plugin for this but I don't see how much of it would be useful really. The only useful thing WordPress related is having your Wordpress blog posts get posted to your Oxwall blog's instantly, and there already is a plugin that does that.


Until then though, if you're persistent on the idea, I recommend posting it at www.oxwall.uservoice.com

Joseph
Joseph Jul 4 '14
oxwall is also built off of wordpress anyways Chris is right they claim we can do anything with it and no coding experience needed all I am saying is it would go better for oxwall even if it was a custom plugin just like their store on here to display their software doing the work oxwall is suppose to be much more than social networking its suppose to be whatever you make of it as well some oxwall users want a social network that works like oxwall but they want their blogs and such to look amazing as well like wordpress a sort of having the cake and eating it too
ross Team
ross Jul 6 '14
FoxTechs thank you, this is exactly what our team would say :)