{"id":257,"date":"2023-02-10T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:49:44","slug":"control-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Control Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All these different <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Content_management_system\">CMS<\/a> variations, researched or implemented, have a universal point of failure. Doing what I want, the way I want it. Great strides have been taken towards customization in all, they&#8217;re terrific for most purposes. But some have limitations and others (like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a>) are large targets for hackers. For a non-expert in such security matters it can&#8230; cause some anxiety. To the point both the CMS and &#8220;internet experts&#8221; recommend using the minimum number of plug-ins to extend functionality. That&#8217;s. No. Fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.django-cms.org\/en\/\">Django<\/a> is a framework, like one of my previous choices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/coldfusion-family.html\">Cold Fusion<\/a>, which allows you to build what you want the way you&#8217;d like to  do it. For better or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Training materials have been ordered and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\">Python<\/a> is being brushed up on. The latter language is arguably the main criteria for choosing Django. A long history with Python in the film industry have I, though skills have oxidized somewhat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the learning materials reviewed, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/djangoforbeginners.com\/\">Django For Beginners<\/a>&#8221; seemed the best start. In detail, it covers the framework and best practices. Python has advanced a version since it was a day job. Syntax changes abound and there will always be room to improve programming practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these different CMS variations, researched or implemented, have a universal point of failure. Doing what I want, the way I want it. Great strides have been taken towards customization in all, they&#8217;re terrific for most purposes. But some have limitations and others (like WordPress) are large targets for hackers. For a non-expert in such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-security","category-tech","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}