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Can I use Wekan as a CMS?

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

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 11, 2020 at 6:14pm

geaplanet@geaplanet

6:14pm

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.

6:15pm

Here's what it looks like on Trello:

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

6:27pm

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

6:30pm

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

6:31pm

I did receive responsible security disclosure in email from security researcher

6:35pm

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

6:37pm

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

6:38pm

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.

6:38pm

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.

6:40pm

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

geaplanet@geaplanet

6:43pm

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?

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

6:43pm

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.

6:44pm

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

6:44pm

For example, with this kind of markdown at card:

- [Nice cat video](https://youtube.com/...)
- [Nice doc vide](https://youtube.com/...)

6:45pm

And video will open in new tab

6:45pm

browser tab

6:45pm

And for those images, you could attach smaller resized images

geaplanet@geaplanet

6:45pm

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

6:46pm

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

6:46pm

Just a moment I'll try image link

6:51pm

I did not get it working yet

6:51pm

Anyway, text link works

geaplanet@geaplanet

6:55pm

Okay, so when you click on an image nothing would happen. I would have to put a text link, right?