indy-wp/README.md

## indy-wp - staging an indymedia wordpress site on docker for development

**Independent Media Center** – a ready‑to‑run WordPress codebase that recreates the archived [indymedia.org](https://web.archive.org/web/*/indymedia.org).  
The stack runs inside Docker and pulls all required plugins via Composer.

## Indy Wordpress on Docker

The theme repository is available at:
https://codeberg.org/radioparalelo/indy-wp-theme

This repository is mirrored at:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indy-wp

Other indymedia open code projects:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia

About security:
This code does not, as of now, contain security modifications. 
Wordpress usually runs with internal logs which are to be considered unsafe. This code needs to be modified to run safely on a server.
Plugins on wordpress are also a vector of potencial attack.

If you are able to modify the code, or have any other ideas, join the Open Media Network project:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia

Contribute:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indy-wp

Wiki:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indy-wp/wiki

Issues:
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indy-wp/issues



**Features**

- Newswire – Publish and aggregate short news items.
- Open Publishing – Front‑end submission for articles, podcasts, and videos.
- Media Archive – Store and browse images, audio, and video with searchable metadata.


## Alternatives!
This is an experimental codebase, for development purposes.

There are several alternatives for hosting indymedia websites, created by indymedia collectives.

See: 

- IMC Press 
https://0xacab.org/imcpress

- Oscailt CMS
http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/oscailt/

- Epycion
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/epicyon

- Drupal
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/770/index.html

- Indybay
https://gitlab.com/indybay

- MIR
https://web.archive.org/web/20050308225521/http://mir.indymedia.de/en/2001/08/5.shtml
https://web.archive.org/web/20080512092418/http://mir.indymedia.org/

- Active
https://web.archive.org/web/20050308055010/http://www.active.org.au/doc/

- IMC Slash
https://sourceforge.net/projects/indymedia/

- Sandstorm
https://sstorm.sourceforge.net/

- Dada IMC
https://web.archive.org/web/20020910064521/http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Devel/DadaImc




![Indymedia on Wordpress](https://codeberg.org/radioparalelo/indy-wp-theme/raw/branch/main/screenshot.png)


**Included Plugins**

When you build this project the plugins below are fetched from WPackagist (a Composer mirror of the WordPress.org plugin directory) and installed.

indymedia/indymedia-wordpress – Core IndyMedia functionality.

- activitypub – Federated social publishing (ActivityPub).
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
- antispam-bee – Spam protection for comments/forms.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/
- archiveo-importer-wayback – Import Wayback Machine archives.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/archiveo-importer-wayback/
- easyfonts – Simple font management.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easyfonts/
- embed-privacy – Privacy‑friendly embeds (YouTube, etc.).
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-privacy/
- exif-remover – Strips EXIF data from uploaded images.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/exif-remover/
- frontend-post-submission-manager-lite – Front‑end post submission handling.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/
-   indieweb – IndieWeb micro‑formats, endpoints, webmentions.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/
-   lh-wayback-machine – Wayback Machine integration.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/lh-wayback-machine/
-   og – Adds Open Graph meta tags.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/og/
-   pretty-rss-feeds – Cleaner RSS feed output.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-rss-feeds/
-   remove-ip – Anonymizes IP addresses in comments.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-ip/
-   safe-paste – Secure paste‑bin functionality.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-paste/
-   syndication-links – Auto‑generates syndication links (Twitter, Mastodon, etc.).
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/syndication-links/
-   unpredictable-image-filenames – Randomizes uploaded image filenames for privacy.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/unpredictable-image-filenames/
-   webmention – Webmention support (IndieWeb).
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/
-   wp-super-cache – Page‑caching to improve performance.
        Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/


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### Get it running in three steps  

1. **Clone the repository**  

   git clone https://codeberg.org/radioparalelo/indy-wp.git indymedia-wp

   cd indymedia-wp


3. **Build the Docker image**  


   docker build -t indymedia:test .


4. **Start the container**  

   docker compose up --build -d


   Then open **http://localhost:8080/wp-admin** in a browser, run the WordPress installer, and activate the plugins you need.

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### What the project contains  

| Component | Description |
|-----------|-------------|
| **Dockerfile** | Builds a clean `wordpress:php8.2-apache` image, installs Composer, WP‑CLI, and copies your custom theme. |
| **composer.json / composer.lock** | Lists the 18 plugins (WPackagist mirror) that are installed into `wp-content/plugins/`. |
| **indy‑wp** | Indymedia custom theme (built and ready to use). |
| **config/php.ini** | Optional PHP tweaks (upload limits, memory, etc.). |
| **docker‑compose.yml** | Docker compose file for a full stack (MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc.). |
| **README.md** | This file. |

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### Installing the plugins  

After the container is running, open the WordPress admin, go to **Plugins → Installed Plugins**, and click **Activate** for each plugin you want.  
All plugins are already present in `wp-content/plugins/` thanks to `composer install` that runs during the image build.

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### Adding or updating plugins  

1. Edit `composer.json` – add or change a package from WPackagist, e.g.:

   ```json
   "require": {
       "wpackagist-plugin/wp-super-cache": "^2.0",
       "wpackagist-plugin/new-plugin": "^1.2"
   }
   ```

2. Re‑build the image (step 2 above).  
   Composer will fetch the new versions and place them in the image.

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### About

The core theme is **Twenty Twenty‑Five**, licensed under **GPL v2 or later**.  
All other code in this repository is also distributed under the GPL v2+ (see individual plugin licenses).  


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### Contributing  

1. Fork the repo.  
2. Make your changes (code, docs, plugin list, etc.).  
3. Submit a pull request.  
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