Big news website powered by TYPOlight?

[rajmund]

Hi!
Has anyone ever used TYPOlight to power a big, crowded news website? I'd like to use TL to rebuild one - for now it is powered by Wordpress (sic!). Do you think TYPOlight can handle it?

[Tru]

Well, me and my friend have been developing a quite big news website for some time. However we came to the conclusion that it will be better to launch it on Wordpress. WP is already written to be a blog or news portal and has many useful features like categories, tags, about author block, author/editor/etc account permissions, easy-to-use editor with uploaders and many other things.

In my opinion it is a nonsense to develop a news portal on TYPOlight. It is not impossible, but I believe the time of development is not worth it, when there are already many blogs system like WP, ExpressionEngine and others.

[acenes]

Clemens has a nice example in the showcase:

http://www.typolight.org/references/show/26.html

[rajmund]

Oh, I haven't noticed this example in the showcase Thanks!

Regarding Wordpress - it is not the worst platform on the planet, but it's not as flexible as it could be. It is good enough for blogging but not good enough for a news website. Every little customization in a view or logic requires looking for plugin, writing a plugin or changing template code. There are no template modules (like in TL or Joomla). WP is not as rich in out-of-box features as other platforms. I have used WP on about 10 websites so far and I'm getting tired of having to write a widget even to put a linked image in a side bar

What's more Wordpress documentation is a nightmare, especially when it comes to advanced subjects like writing plugins/widgets. Some functions (and most of the classes from newer versions) are not even mentioned in DOCS, and there is no one, consistent, comprehensive API doc.

[Medianomaly]

Yeah, having used both, what Tru said about WP vs. TL, I probably would have said the opposite.

It's so easy and quick to set anything up, a news site would be a cinch. Plus if you have many people contributing, the user permissions system is so much better suited.

I generally enjoy developing in Wordpress, but man it is a mess. In addition to the documentation problems you mentioned, the API is just so damn sloppy.

I just don't want someone else coming across this post and thinking TL isn't suited for this -- completely incorrect.