indy-wp/README.md

indy-wp - indymedia codebase on wordpress

Independent Media Center – a ready‑to‑run WordPress codebase that recreates the archived indymedia.org hub.
The stack runs inside Docker and pulls all required plugins via Composer.

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.

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://github.com/RadioParalelo/indy-wp.git indymedia-wp

   cd indymedia-wp

2. Build the Docker image

   docker build -t indymedia:test .

3. 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.:

   "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).

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

Support the indymedia network being rebuilt: https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia

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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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