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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 6:43pm

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.

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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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                                                That is a recent fix that setting width and height works again https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v384-2020-03-16-wekan-release

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                                                  Well, I'm going to prepare Wekan to play with it on my dedicated home system, thank you very much for everything.

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