[Bradford] Degrees of integration?

[Paul Colley]

To give all this a bit more context, these are just some of the questions arising from an imminent three-way merger. Civi is a given - it is already being shared by the three organisations. WordPress is viewed as a more manageable option than Drupal (I realise that they are not wholly comparable). Mailchimp is already being used quite extensively across the three organisations. The initial impression I get is that you can mash the three together but you will have to compromise on functionality. I could easily be wrong.
P.

      From: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
 To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk; Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> 
 Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2016, 13:31
 Subject: Re: [Bradford] Degrees of integration?
   
HI Paul

Re WP features, I think it is better to decide what you need because you are 
very unlikely to need every feature of CiviCRM and then check if what you want 
to do is available with WP. I just know that some features are mentioned in 
the documentation as only available in Drupal.

Obviously not up-to-date with the extensions! None of the setups I am aware of 
use Mailchimp! As you need the CiviMail module to implement the MailChimp 
module this seems a bit like having a dog and barking yourself - but perhaps 
people who are familiar with MailChimp will find it easier to use than CiviMail 
or maybe they need a feature of MailChimp which isn't supported in CiviMail. 

John
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On Thursday 10 Mar 2016 12:29:29 Paul Colley wrote:
> Hi John and thanks.
> It sounds as if you know at least something of the 'few features' that are
> not available in a Civi-WP setup? If you have a moment, are you able to say
> anything more? Your comment as to MailChimp sounds pretty final. Is this in
> spite of the couple of Mailchimp integration extensions that seem to have
> been developed? I appreciate that not all extensions are created equal.
> Cheers
> Paul
>      From: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
>  To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk; Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
>  Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2016, 9:34
>  Subject: Re: [Bradford] Degrees of integration?
> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> You can put CiviCRM on top of WordPress (or Joomla! or Drupal) but there are
> a few features not available in WordPress. Unless you have very specific
> needs, these are unlikely to make any difference.
> 
> CiviCRM comes with its own CiviMail module which gives you MailChimp like
> functionality. You cannot link it to MailChimp.
> 
> There is a north of England CiviCRM meetup which meets from time to time so,
> depending on your timescale, you could come to one of their meetings or I
> could talk the issues through with you.
> 
> John
> --
> 
> On Thursday 10 Mar 2016 00:14:16 Paul Colley wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of / thoughts on the extent to which
> > CiviCRM plays nicely with either/or/both of WordPress and Mailchimp?
> > 
> > I am aware of the forums and communities that exist around these wares,
> > but
> > thought I'd tap the hive mind anyway.  Cheers
> > Paul ColleyBradford CVS



  
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