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I just landed in Barcelona. I am sure there is a reason but they seem prime candidates for Solar

What's the feel about moving away from talking about WordPress and more talking about CMS based on Wordpress? - It seems that we are all going to have to move away from wordpress.org and WordPress branding.

I am thinking that this might be a bit over the top but Im interested if anyone uses the tools and recipes designed by coopcloud to deploy their self hosted applications.

I've been looking at alternatives to Google Workspace / Office 365 for SME / non-profits.

Broadly I have been searching for something that allows an organisation to use their own domain, includes email and nextcloud hosting and a mechanism to manage users/email addresses for the organisation.

In my ideal solution alongside an email server we would have access to a cloud hosted LDAP server/instance to manage users passwords and permissions and then administrators would be able to spin up instances of applications such as Nextcloud, Wordpress, CiviCRM and other Open source applications as a service.

I used the list of Hosting Providers on the Nexcloud website alongside the following list I found - https://github.com/thetuxinator/nextcloud_providers?tab=readme-ov-file

As yet we haven't made any decisions but created a shortlist of providers to consider: These include:

https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/nextcloud https://www.stackhero.io/en/services/Nextcloud/pricing https://cloud.ionos.co.uk/solutions/nextcloud#packages https://www.commonscloud.coop/advanced-office/ https://www.federated.computer/pricing/ https://brixly.uk/email-hosting-with-nextcloud-

None of these seem perfect (I suspect that plenty of have some proprietary components in there (their own User provisioning and billing components )

I'm not sure any of these are perfect. I've also been looking at https://docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/strategy/ which appears to be aiming to provide mechanism to deliver such services for organisations on top of Baremetal / Cloud Compute and Storage. (Though this doesn't appear to include email and LDAP at the moment) I can see these would be natural extensions.

I'm also looking to see to what degree this could be achieved using Web Hosting Services (Cpanel now supports creating sub-users that can be configured to access to email, ftp and web storage but I am not sure whether their credentials can be used for single signon for Web Applications running on your account such as WordPress and NextCloud. I need to look at the other major WebHosting Provisioning systems such as ( I think Plesk is one)

When looking for plugins how do people sort through all the 'free' plugins that sound great but are actually 'fremuim' where all the key features are actually in a PRO version?

How do you locate the fully featured proper open source plugins that are well maintained and used?

Im fairly new to WordPress but have a background in commercial #CMS and #CRM systems.

Im exploring Wordpress for a #membership based club that does a variety of organised #events for this reason Im also looking into #CiviCRM amd the integration between the two as I think our isolated commercial membership system is a deadend.

Im struggling to find a set of plugins that:

Bridge the gap in terms of flexible data collection forms that could be used to collect information from website visitors and manage events

Security and access control for page, block and form access

Content lifecycle management functions such as stakeholder identification, content review, approval

The problem doesnt seem to be finding plugins but chosong between them. There seems to be so many out there for functions that I usually had core in the CMS amd many seem to fremium with basic free functions but requiring payment for most functionality.

Id prefer truely free, open source solutions not tied to a single commercial vendor.

Welcome comments amd recommendations especially from other membership organizations.