6144: Re-brand Composr CMS and several of its sub-systems - Composr CMS feature tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

6144	Composr advocacy and funding	General / Uncategorised	public	2025-02-01 19:58	2025-02-02 15:59

Reporter	PDStig	Assigned To	PDStig
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	6144: Re-brand Composr CMS and several of its sub-systems
Description	The name "Composr" is not leading us much market traffic on search engines. Additionally, it is too close to the name "Composer" which is a popular PHP repository. As such, we need a different name for the CMS. It was proposed we re-brand back to ocPortal. This is a good potential because there are no companies or software to my knowledge with a similar name. Furthermore, SEO still has ocPortal still pretty far up in ranks from sites that still list us as ocPortal. Additionally, the following must be re-named as well to improve our chances of coming up in search engines: - Comcode (there is a company and site by this name) - Tempcode (this is an online code editor) - Selectcode (too similar to SelectCoder) - Filtercode (too similar to Moodle's FilterCodes module) - Conversr (this is a name of a software company) - Anything else we find which is "unique" to Composr but actually exists out in the wild already Additionally, once we re-brand, we should purchase domain names of the same names and have them re-direct to the homesite.
Additional Information	This is a v12 project
Tags	Risk: Major rearchitecting , Roadmap: Over the horizon
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Adam Edington 2025-02-02 07:11 administrator ~9797	I always thought the leap to Composr was a strange one. Then the renaming of the addons to match the name change was also weird (to me). If ocPortal is getting better results than Composr it seems likes the obvious choice to revert to that. However, Tempcode returns the Composr tutorial when I search for it. I rarely search for the other terms, and a reorganising of the tutorials to remove the deadweight would give me less reason to ever search for Filtercode, Selectcode, etc. so I'm not sure that the components must be renamed but reverting the name to ocPortal seems to be a no brainer.

PDStig 2025-02-02 15:59 administrator ~9798	To clarify: ocPortal is not getting better results than Composr when comparing the two strictly; Composr obviously gets more results since that's the active name for the CMS. But ocPortal still shows up since it's the old name, and some sites still have not updated our name. What I mean is that, if I do a search of Composr and compare the placement of Composr CMS relative to other things, and do the same for searching ocPortal and comparing the actual ocPortal software relative to other things, ocPortal places further up relative to other "ocPortal" results than Composr does relative to other "Composr" results. This indicates to me ocPortal is a more organic name than Composr.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-02-01 19:58	PDStig	New Issue
2025-02-01 19:58	PDStig	Status	Not Assigned => Assigned
2025-02-01 19:58	PDStig	Assigned To	=> user4172
2025-02-01 19:58	PDStig	Tag Attached: Risk: Major rearchitecting
2025-02-01 19:58	PDStig	Tag Attached: Roadmap: Over the horizon
2025-02-02 07:11	Adam Edington	Note Added: 0009797
2025-02-02 15:59	PDStig	Note Added: 0009798