Comments on: WordPress for Project Management

By: Spencer Hill

Spencer Hill — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:13:02 +0000

The calendar, address book (for clients and team) and email can be integrated directly with Google Apps. I’d love to explain the concept more. Manymoon is a great example of what that looks like in action.

By: Spencer Hill

Spencer Hill — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:08:49 +0000

Hey Patrick. FINALLY someone who not only has this idea but wants to collaborate with others on it openly! There are TONS of these concepts and apps out there but all of them are closed source and it’s obnoxious!

I’ve already started development on a series of plugins to do this, and I’m pooling some existing open source code that already does many of these features to combine them into one mega application that does all of the above and a bit more. I would LOVE for us to put our brains together and work on this.

Peace!

By: Blake Peterman

Blake Peterman — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:14:42 +0000

This is a great idea! Anything you need I will help.

This would be the perfect solution for web designers

By: vijay

vijay — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:09:23 +0000

Hi Patrick,
Thanks for posting this article.
Its inspirational to see that WP can be a PM tool.
I am a newbie to WP and am still learning the ropes using tutorials on the net.

At work, we currently use XDK (http://www.vmtech.com/xdk.htm) a Word based Help Authoring Tools (HAT).
The current HATs are expensive, have a steep learning curve and because of proprietary technology not easy to migrate from/to.

I wonder if anyone has developed or is developing WP as a HAT.
The current core features (http://wordpress.org/about/features/) in WP (even without the millions of plugins/themes available) are miles ahead of what any HAT can offer.

In particular, WP has easy to use editor. This is a boon for collaborative management of knowledge.

However, the one primary requirement for WP to become a HAT would be a Table of Contents (TOC).
• Could TOC be auto-generated based on category (i.e. heading levels as categories)?
– I have seen simple JavaScript examples for TOC.
• The author should then be able to sort or move topics around (rearrange TOC).
– I have not seen this feature anywhere.

Do you think it is possible to create an advanced TOC in WP?

Your thoughts on using WP as a TOC?

Cheers,
Vijay

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:14:35 +0000

This would be fantastic, I am looking for great open source Project management web based colabaration tools

and wordpress is just so Easy to implmenet with the fantastic CMS drivng content, I would be very keen to see your Project

By: Roland

Roland — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:43:46 +0000

This is a pretty cool idea and I am interested in learning if this is still an active project or just some thoughts. From what I learned about the existing PM solutions for WP, they mostly work in the backend and don’t show up/allow to use the frontend, which can be a bummer for end users.

I would like to see this as a plug-in for WP3/BP using groups as projects (maybe it is possible to have a project which includes subgroups for (temp) work groups within the project). The feature set of Basecamp/ProjectPier/… is sufficient and we shouldn’t worry about specialties (invoicing, etc.) for the first release.

Is there some collaboration space already in place somewhere where I can contribute?

By: Mridul

Mridul — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:25:33 +0000

Great Idea..!!! i would also suggest, you look in buddypress [plugin for WPMU] group functionality [you have registered users for the group] to assign a project, instead of using a new blog as a project[it might take lot of unnecessary resources]. my less then 2 cents..!!

By: Christopher Beckwith

Christopher Beckwith — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:01 +0000

Excellent!

I currently use Basecamp at the company I work for as well as the $12 Personal account for myself (the free one doesn’t include file storage). For the company, using the native Basecamp is perfect. They offer great support, cost effective prices, and always introducing new features. I completely support all of you investing in Basecamp if working for a medium to large company with disposable income.

However, for people simply wishing for only the important Basecamp features and look, for themselves and another person or two, this seems like a great alternative. Sure Basecamp can be affordable, but if you sign up for Basecamp, Backpack, Beanstalk, Lighthouse, Tender, etc, all of these beautiful apps add up.

Open source solutions offer users starting out on a low budget unlimited storage, complete branding (through css), and modifying features (through html). If Basecamp increases prices or goes under, you are not out of luck as you would be self hosted. ActiveCollab started out as the perfect open source alternative to Basecamp and promised to remain free forever (in one of the posts), but as we know later retracted that by charging enormous self hosted price points.

Thank you Patrick for your devotion to open source and let me know if I can help in anyway. Everyone be sure to checkout and use Google Apps for your mail needs, calendar, docs, and wikis for free.

Cheers,
Christopher

By: David Whitmyre

David Whitmyre — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:17:31 +0000

This is exactly what I need. I have used basecamp, but it was too expensive for what we were doing. I would gladly use this. I am not a developer or I would lend my hand. I support you moving forward with this and thank you ahead of time for all of your efforts.

David

By: Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:16 +0000

Subscribing to my blog is the easiest way. Sometime in January I should have some more show for the project. I’ve been waiting on WordPress 2.9, Hybrid 0.7, and for some of my “real” work to clear up.