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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 11, 2020 at 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.

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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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                    ok

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                      Just a moment I'll try image link

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                        I did not get it working yet

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                          Anyway, text link works

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

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                              Yes. Wekan and Trello has some features that are at both. Then there are features that only Wekan has (like Swimlanes etc), and some that only Trello has.

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                                Trello is closed source, so I don't know how they implement all those. Wekan is all different code, graphics and design.

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                                  Okay, it's a little more cumbersome, but it can be workable. Anyway, is it possible that in the future you can implement the embedded video feature?

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                                    Do you mean like embedding video link to card?

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                                      Hmm, maybe if I would have custom field type video, and it would have direct link to video file, and there would be player in Wekan itself.

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                                        I need to think can it be done securely

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                                          Thank you for your patience. One more question that has not been clear to me: to adjust the size of the images to the size of the card, what would I have to do or is it a modification that you have to do?

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                                            something like this code:

                                            <img src="https://image.jpg" width="200" height="200">
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                                              that code already works

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                                                Cool!

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                                                  :)

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