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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

KDE primarily uses Hugo for its websites. In most cases, running a website locally consists of installing Go and Hugo, and then:

git clone <repository-link>
cd <cloned-repository>
hugo server

A few special websites might have additional instructions on how to set up local development, like the main KDE.org website, Planet KDE, or the KDE Developer platform.

You can read more about developing with Hugo in the Hugo KDE repository wiki. You might also want to check out the Hugo KDE repository itself, as it's where most HTML/SCSS/JS development happens.

To create a new Hugo website from scratch, you will want to read the Tutorial from scratch and take a look at the Hugo KDE Website Template.

Lastly, to deploy our websites, we use Continuous Delivery (CD).

In addition to Hugo, we also use MediaWiki for our wikis, and Jekyll in some rare cases.

KDE's web needs steadily change, and there is always room for coders who are able to contribute HTML, SCSS, or JS. Contributing is a matter of:

• Visiting our Matrix group: #kde-www:kde.org
• Checking out the list of KDE Websites
• Start hacking!

Contacting the KDE Web team

• IRC channel: #kde-www (see IRC Channels for details)
• Matrix channel: #kde-www (see Matrix for details)
• Mailing list: KDE Mailing Lists (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

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