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Official Discourse Install Guide

Recommended Server Hardware

• 2 GB of RAM
• 2 GB of swap
• 2 processor cores

With 2 GB of memory and dual cores, you can run two instances of the thin server (NUM_WEBS=2), and easily host anything but the largest of forums.

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Websites

• http://drawsketch.about.com/od/learntodraw/Beginner_Drawing_Lessons_Learn_To_Draw.htm
• http://www.thriveart.com/
• http://www.drawspace.com/
• http://www.toadhollowstudio.com/index.html
• http://www.fivepencilmethod.com/tutorials/
• http://www.universalclass.com/i/course/how-to-draw.htm https://www.udemy.com/courses/search?q=draw
• http://www.klinecreative.com/free-online-art-lessons.htm

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/* Delete revisions */
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "revision";
/* Only use this if you no longer care about any of your current revisions! */

/* Delete trashed posts */
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "trash";

/* Delete Unapproved comments */
DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = "0";
/* Only use this if you no longer care about the current queue of unapproved comments! */

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Pre-requisites

Server running Debian/Ubuntu Server with Nginx webserver set up.

Initial setup

Update System

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

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Sources

• Website Configuration
• setwebcfg - Set a main page and/or error page for one or more buckets
• Request URIs

People

• http://stackoverflow.com/users/1089189/marc-cohen
• http://stackoverflow.com/users/1672803/mike-schwartz

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feed.xml

---
layout: nil
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
    xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"

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Initial setup

Update System

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Git

sudo apt-get install git

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Misc.

• Words, Writing and Copy . GitHub
• Pattern Libraries
  • Twitter Bootstrap
  • Zurb Foundation
  • BBC - GEL (Global Experience Language)

Version control systems (VCS)

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Static site generators under consideration:

• Jekyll with Octopress (mostly going with this!)
• Pelican
• Docpad

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WordPress vs Static Site

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<?php
	if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 && !is_paged() ) {
		post_class('first-post');
	} else {
		post_class();
	}
?>