James Crisp wrote a nifty Contact Feedback plugin for Mephisto for the new Thoughtworks Studios site. The plugin looks nice, and fills a common need in Mephisto. Also, the Thoughtworks Studios site is extremely well-done. I had seen it before, but didn’t realize it used Mephisto. Major kudos to James Crisp and Thoughtworks!
For anyone that asks: it looks like the main difference between this, and my own feedback plugin is that mine doesn’t send emails. It stores them in the DB and lets you browse in the admin. Nice since your inbox doesn’t get the spam, but I’ve been finding that I often forget to check it :)
Thanks for your post, Rick.
Mephisto was the right choice for the ThoughtWorks Studios website. We tossed around a number of tools, many of them PHP based and full of features. We chose Mephisto because it’s a Rails application which is well implemented, super fast and has great potential.
We’ll be submitting our website template for the community, and are keen to support Mephisto in any way we can.
@Zac – Submitting your template for the community would be fantastic. With such a great theme to learn from I have no doubt that many Mephisto site designs will improve and that Mephisto’s overall popularity will grow as a result. I look forward to it.
Did you see this—Mephisto vulnerable to XSS attacks?
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Mar/0392.html
Yup, it’s been fixed in stable-0.7 and edge for a few weeks.
A comment while passing by – No date/time on posts? I’m always amazed that folk accept that … I mean … doesn’t that strike you as just plain odd?
BTW: I like what you’re doing but, FWIW, I don’t find MarkDown a draw, at all.
cheers
It is a bit weird, but that’s just this theme. I also don’t use markdown, but good thing Mephisto supports textile out of the box.
Thank you, will test on my blog :-)
@Ben – Markdown may not be a draw for some however I am positive that it is and will be a draw for just as many.
Textile is great for people that know HTML however I have found that non-technical folks much prefer Markdown.
I would expect a Mephisto based solution to be deployed by techies however I would equally expect non-techies to supply the content in many cases.
Most importantly, as Rick has pointed out, Mephisto supports both.
Hello Mephisto Community Thank for the great Mephisto-Blog – using it as a BLOG/CMS (www.ccos.de). Want to build a seminar catalog system into Mephisto (something like Shoppify) but could not find a way to build a plugin which can use its own db migration. I therefore have 2 q-s: 1) is there a way or better example to build a plugin separately as an app with its own db migrations and then have it plugged into mephisto? 2) does shoppify something similar – but what about new releases (and migrations) in new mephisto releases (trunk – versions?) which come with new migrations? Thanks for your comments Michael
I am going to install this mephisto today. I already tried Wordpress and I want to compare the system coz my friends are saying Mephisto far more faster… :D