Summer 2018.
# Next two rules added by JD to make all accesses use secure HTTP
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This then stopped Steven from being able to post his ‘News from Elsewhere’. So I temporarily put the .htaccess file back to its original state. We stayed like that for two years…
2020
17th June. News from Elsewhere to use Postie Plugin.
When Steven started to post News from Elsewhere, David Hastings used the JetPack plugin to set up ‘Post by email’. But by that method posting by email won’t work with the security in place. See:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email
I installed another Plugin mentioned on the above page – ‘Postie’. It works by polling emails from an email address set up to receive the posts. It can be configured to accept posts from certain email addresses only. Also to post to a particular category (e.g. OtherNews).
17th June. HTTPS enabled
Our website can now be addressed as:
https://camdencyclists.org.uk/
which means the server is now using our security certificate to validate the site’s identity.
At first Chrome said ‘Not Secure’ because we had lots of internal links to images etc that may not be protected. But this was fixed by the end of July .
Upgraded WordPress to 5.3.2
George fixed settings in Events Manager – OpenStreetMaps
July 10th on…Checking and fixing internal links
Used WPLink Status to generate scans. (internal links only)
Errors from News From Elsewhere due mainly to links such as /author in the source becoming our links plus a few images that we should not have captured.
Our own links that had been http and are translated by the code in .htaccess. Have fixed those.
SEPT 2020
Back Ups – Sept 2020
Daily UpdraftPlus WordPress emailed to Jean since 30th July. UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore is a Plugin
Checked on 25 Sept and see currently going to David’s Drop Box. 300 Mb?
Amazon S3 Standard $.024 per Gig per month immediate frequent access. We do 1 Gig a day and keep for 30 days. Total 30 Gig. Cost approx £1 per month.
29 Sept 2020: Changed to Amazon S3 – George’s account and Jean’s secret key and access key. S3 Location: s3://camdencyclists1 (it is possible to get new key pairs for this account and s3 bucket).
12 Oct: (after 14 days of backups): email from AWS:
Your AWS account 414149896309 has exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services for the month of October.
AWS Free Tier Usage as of 10/12/2020 AWS Free Tier Usage Limit
1812.0 Requests 2,000 Put, Copy, Post or List Requests of Amazon S3
Widget and plugins checked Sept 26th
Put ‘articles and letters in press’ in Footer 2.
Problem – could not open widgets on dashboard
ADVANCED CATEGORY WIDGET incompatible with WP 5.5. DELETED
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-categories-widget/
Now using WP Category Widget which doesn’t allow nesting of categories (in bottom footer) but we think that looks better..
Google Analyticator sent error email (hid the Widget editor) when we disabled it the widget settings reappeared. Now de-activated.
Other smaller issues
- Foobox crashed but all is well now. It provides a lightbox and image sequences.
- Flickr embed inserts http instead of https causing insecure posts
Plugin for Flickr embed stopped working – date not recorded.
Need to get the links manually.
2nd April 2021
LCC announces a new website which turns out to omit a lot of content from the previous website. Spent some time searching for broken links and found about 20 which have all been disconnected.
Used https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/ and found the LCC button on Home page needed fixing
Updated plugins. Conditional widgets (3) and Postie (1.9.55). Updated WP from 5.6.2 to 5.7. Updated users to reflect current roles. Note that former users are retained in the list so that their posts can continue to be attributed to them.
