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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.


April 7, 2020 at 9:13am

Wekan has "Add Board / Import / From Trello", so you can import Trello boards to Wekan

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    You can install Wekan server to your laptop or some other server or computer, and have that data locally there

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      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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