You know how a doctor only sees people when they are ill, in a similar fashion a support forum we (usually, not always, but usually) interact when we face a problem, I just wanted to include a bit of Friday positivity on the support forum and sing the praises of Volt and an aspect that I just thought “Wow, this is so good”.
I’m currently building quite an extensive website for someone. It requires quite a lot of user editable dynamic pages, with many already done, that are individually linked from a custom menu with a number of custom dropdown submenus. I’ve used multiple blogs to do this. People don’t see these as blogs, just pages linked from the menu.
Yesterday I was asked could the categories/names be changed for all and can many of the pages be moved around between different categories.
The problem that made me wince was that different content e.g. from blog 8 needed to be in 4, some in blog 2 in to blog 10, some in blog 3 in to blog 5 etc. A big switcharoo of content.
I found with Volt, changing the names of blogs for the URLs to match, reflecting the changes of these in HT Access, categories changed dead easy. Then the move of pages between blogs, initially I thought this was going to be a re-input nightmare, but then SFTP on the server, just moving the JSON files for the blogs between the Volt blog ID folders on the server was all I had to do, (and all images in those blog pages remain linked). I thought “Bingo! How good is this?”. It has really affirmed my liking for the PHP flat file approach instead of the MySQL database approach I 've used in the past (I know some other systems may be friendly to use, but equally there are some that are a nightmare).
Some may read this thinking “What the hell is he on about?” if that is the case, just take away from this that Volt is a truly great system, well worth every penny.
Happy Friday everyone.
