October 2021
Installed the new LCC logos.
LCC provided EPS and we used the vertical red on while converting it to SVG at https://cloudconvert.com/eps-to-svg
This SVG was read into Intaglio and used to produce
– a red logo over a white square size 512 and png used for favicon
– The main site logo is put as SVG into the text widget “Header right”. A red logo over a white square didn’t look good. So we used a red logo over a white square with another white square on its right saved as SVG and then converted to an SVG size 100 x 200 at https://www.iloveimg.com Note: the logo looks low relative to the header on the left (but the old one was also low). Could fix this some time.
– a white logo over red square with CAMDEN for Twitter
August 2021
Widened the whole site by 120 px:
in Dashboard>Dynamik>Design, Widths tab, add 120 px to all the layouts (distributed evenly in the multi-column layouts). Also in the Wrap tab, change Inner left/right padding from 20px to 5 px.
This shows the old Widths settings:
June 2021
In November 2019 the search box disappeared from the main navigation bar, appearing only when the window was narrowed. We used various fixes such as putting another search box in the right-hand column.
First checked the role of search-3 (in widget Header Right). See the custom css under Dynamic. It has display: none but appears above the Nav Bar when the window is narrowed. If changed to display:online the menu appears below the logo.
Decided to investigate properly and saw from Wayback machine that there was code for a search box in the menu. So then investigated and found that Genesis 3.0 stopped providing nav bar extras around the time we lost the search box. See explanations here. That link provides PHP to add to functions in the child theme dynamic-gen. This has been added and the search addition uncommented.
Plugin for Flickr embed stopped working – date not recorded. But it came back again!
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.
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 is configured
- to accept posts from users with author and editor access to WordPress via the email address they registered with.
- and to post to a particular category (i.e. OtherNews).
The sender has to put an excerpt in brackets e.g.
:excerptstart Euston Road, where's the cycle track? Pic credit: Michiel Joseph. The pace of progress on TfL and the Mayor’s Streetspace plans is currently too slow. The plan itself is vital, and the progress thus far is valued. But we’re not moving fast enough. :excerptend
The rest of the post follows. It should not include any definition of a category. Plugin updated 25 Oct 2021
NOTE: Oct 21 someone attempted to send from noreply@ionos.com and I received a warning email (from Postie) that the message had been put in the Spam mailbox marked as at the postie email address. Same again July 2022 but no action taken.
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
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…
