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Introduction

KDE hosts a variety of websites, from the highly dynamic to info, documentation, and promotional sites. Volunteering involves very different aspects ranging from:

• writing content
• moderating in the forum
• coordinating announcements
• staying in contact with KDE developers to be aware of latest changes
• administering dynamic sites like forum, wikis
• watching out for spammers in those
• enhancing functionality of the codebase
• styling/designing the look of our sites
• etc etc

The web team works closely with the promo and the sysadmin teams to make sure that KDE has a nice-looking and functional web presence.

Getting involved

Coding

There are a variety of options to get involved. KDE websites use either its own framework (Capacity, see below), or one of the well known frameworks around the web. This includes:

• MediaWiki
• Jekyll
• Drupal
• phpBB
• GOsa
• WordPress
• Redmine
• and more

KDE's web needs steadily change, and there is always room for coders who are able to contribute HTML, CSS or PHP.

Note

Capacity is about to become deprecated, as the main site is being prepared for a move to WordPress Drupal to be decided

Discussion about kde websites

• IRC channel: #kde-www
• Matrix channel: #kde-www
• Mailinglist: kde-www See http://kde.org/mailinglists/ for details

Documentation

Setting up kde.org or other capacity based website on your computer

In order to do any development you will want to have a local version of the websites to test before committing. The instructions for how to set this up are here: Local Website Setup.

Documentation for MediaWiki

KDE's MediaWiki instance are using the family setup.

The theme is located at Aether-mediawiki gitlab and the extensions are the following:

• ConfirmEdit
• DocumentationTags
• Contribution_Scores
• DynamicPageList_(third-party)
• EmbedVideo
• ImageMap
• ParserFunctions
• MassEditRegex
• LiquidThreads
• SpamBlacklist
• TitleBlacklist
• UserMerge
• Interwiki
• Matomo
• Nuke
• And the translation bundle

Documentation for the Jekyll theme

You can find the documentation for the Jekyll theme in the project README and a Tutorial is available at KDE.org/Jekyll.

Documentation for the cdn export (webpack)

The code is available at websites/aether-sass.

Websites using this theme:

• The wikis: userbase, techbase and community
• KDE.org/applications kde.org/applications
• kde.org

Documentation for Capacity

The current default framework for many *.kde.org domains is the /media-framework, aka Capacity. Any documentation about this should go here:

• Setting up a staging vhost
• Capacity HOWTO
• KDE.org/kde.org-menu

Warning

Probably outdated content below

Working with Wordpress on kde.org

Note: this is not reflective of the current state of kde.org but will be helpful once kde.org has been ported to neverland and wordpress. Wordpress Help

• Discussion for a new site here

Themes

• Neverland

Site Maintainance

• Status of our *.kde.org domains
• International
  • German kde site
  • KDE India website

Meetings

• September 2008 Meeting Outline
• wiki meeting in june 2009
• website meeting at GCDS 2009

The Team

See here

Sub projects

• /KDE Forums - KDE Community Forums
• /Season - KDE Student Programs