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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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Can I use Wekan as a CMS?

Can I use Wekan as a CMS?

Wekan / General · April 6, 2020 at 12:32pm

Hi, I'm a teacher and currently use Trello as a CMS, not as a "to-do" management. It is very easy and fast to use to organize content and programming of my courses at school. I can add formatted text (with markdown), images, videos, links, attach documents and files to each card, I can do searches, I can share it with colleagues and invite them to collaborate... It is taking a lot of time and effort and I would like to have all the data under my control, and I was wondering if I could use Wekan to do the same.

Thanks.

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April 7, 2020 at 9:14am

There is download options

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    With Wekan there is unlimited amount of user accounts, boards etc

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      April 11, 2020 at 6:13pm

      Installation is not a problem. I was referring rather to whether I could do the same things I do in Trello but in Wekan.

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        I have been playing with Wekan for a while at sandstorm.io and I really like it and I can see many possibilities in Wekan.

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          The text format is well preserved. The problems I see would be related to the size of the images, which retain their original size (take a look at the attachment). I also don't know if I will be able to embed youtube videos.

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            Here's what it looks like on Trello:

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              Sometime I could add generating thumbnails of images. It would make loading boards faster.

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                Embedding YouTube videos was removed from Wekan, because that code had critical security vulnerability https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v385-2020-03-23-wekan-release

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                  I did receive responsible security disclosure in email from security researcher

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                    In that security issue, when some Javascript code was added to card and saved, then after saving and opening card, Javascript could be executed

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                      I have not yet looked is there any safe way to embed YouTube. YouTube has a lot of Javascript.

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                        One possibility would be to download video and upload to Wekan card. But videos are usually very large files, so I think it's not a very good idea.

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                          Another possibility would be to download those videos, and add them to your own webserver as files, and then add links to videos to cards. That would make more sense.

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                            Downloading videos is also a good way to make sure video does not get lost, or some YouTube algorithm does not delete it automatically.

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                              I have all those videos. It is not such a bad idea to have them on my own web server. Anyway, could you make a thumbnail of the video as jpg and then link to youtube?

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                                YouTube has a lot of tracking. For example, I see from adblocker UBlock Origin that some video has 310 trackers, that is amount of blocked tracking urls etc.

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                                  Of course you can add links to YouTube. It's just not possible to embed them to card.

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                                    For example, with this kind of markdown at card:

                                    - [Nice cat video](https://youtube.com/...)
                                    - [Nice doc vide](https://youtube.com/...)
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                                      And video will open in new tab

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                                        browser tab

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                                          And for those images, you could attach smaller resized images

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                                            I mean, don't embed youtube video, but use a simple link to youtube by clicking on an image.

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