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The idea

Salford Lads Club (officially, the Salford Lads and Girls Club) is a youth & community centre that has existed for over 100 years. They have an active community both locally (the centre is well run and attended) and also worldwide (thanks to that The Smiths photo).

SLGC have a website at the moment, but the idea is to port this content to a wordpress and then get various social media elements combined and integrated.. in a day.

Where

At Salford Lads and Girls Club, in Ordsall, Salford

When

11th November 2009 27th November 2009

Who

@stevieflow
DC

SLC elsewhere on the web

SLGC on Wikipedia

SLGC on Flickr

SLGC mentions on Twitter

Youtube Playlist

"Spec"

Current Site is at http://www.salfordladsclub.org.uk
New wordpress installed at http://salfordladsclub.net
Older site at http://dev.salfordladsclub.org.uk/
Site now "live" at http://www.salfordladsclub.org.uk

Items to cover:

• Transfer of existing content
  • posts
  • Static pages

• Wordpress themes installed for review
  • Constructor
  • Techified
  • Snowblind
  • Modern Style
  • Vina
  • Web2.0
  • Tropicala

*Favicon!

• T-shirts sales and donations are important
  • Look at Paypal
  • Chip In?
  • JustGiving widgets

• Widgets of SLC on the web (see below)

• Photo Archive (on Flickr)
  • Upload of football team photos from SLC

Plug ins and configurations with other sites

WP Plug ins to install

Strike through = installed!

• • About Me
  • Amazon Showcase
  • DISQUS Comment System - need to register
  • FD Feedburner Plugin - installed needs config
  • FeedBurner FeedSmith
  • Flickr Badge Widget
  • Google XML Sitemap - failed to install
  • XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.1.6.3
  • Twitter Tools
  • Ecwid Shopping Cart - part installed, needs shop config sorting out
  • Google Analytics for Wordpress
  • Flickr Gallery
  • Contact Form 7
  • Really Simple CAPTCHA
  • Google Maps for WordPress
  • Bookmark Export
  • WordPress.com Stats
  • WP-Stats-Dashboard

Other Possible Plugins

Alternative Wordpress Image Uploader Using Flickr

Registration email account has been set up (What is this?)

Register SLC on the following

• Twitter (waiting on support request with Twitter)
• Google - Profile set up
  • Gmail /
  • Analytics
  • Webmaster
  • Feedburner
  • YouTube - [1]
• Yahoo - need to find original!
  • Delicious
  • Flickr
• Fundraising
  • Just Giving
  • ChipIn
• Gravatar (with info@)
• DISQUS - Have signed up - but will need to register for comments when move to .org.uk is done
• Technorati

2do

Upload photos to flickr

Create a delicious account and tag past news articles

Sub Footer

Add link to Ecohosts - http://ecohost.coop/wind-banners

Needs Attention

Home page - check links

Header banner / image

Static Pages Content

Visit / Volunteer / Hire / Press pages

Pages that have comments closed - no need to display the default message that, erm, comments are closed - Comments for this page are closed.

Store

Have configured - but needs payment gateways adding

Shop page needs to change to new shop, but for now existing shop page could have a bit of html tweeking

Other Content

Open Street Map - it (Salford Lads' Club) is not mapped on OSM yet!

Go Live

• When moving to .org.uk domain need to
  • Set up Google Analytics
  • Configure Feedburner
  • Google webmaster
  • Google maps API key
  • any inline links

WP Notes

• Sidebar photos are 133x133px
• Pingbacks and trackbacks disabled
• Default Avatar set to Gravatar

More Tasks

Images

Although we have the images from the old server I seriously think that editing each page and re-adding the images, and reformatting the page is the way to go. Pages are a bit messy now. The 'gallery' feature, that means that all the images attached to a page/post can be shown as a small gallery is really good.

Images are referenced by number so quite easy to do.

Can also be used as a training tool...

We could also do with a better image for the Contact Details and about on the sidebar and footer

SF - I just started to try and finish this, but think you are editing them at the same time! (8.54pm, 27/11/09)

Bookmarks

I opened a Delicious account, but cant seem to get this plug-in working on a Page http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/delicious/

WP stuff / notes

Featured posts

Turns out this is an implementation of http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/

I'm not a fan of rotating banners really, but at least this has forward and back buttons,and the picture link lets you chose which feature to go see.
Crucially for me, the controls are in the theme header file:

   function startGallery() {
       var myGallery = new gallery($('myGallery'), {
           timed: false,
           delay: 5000,
           slideInfoZoneOpacity: 0.8
       });
   }

Search

Search needed a fix, as 'Search Result For ""' was displayed, missing the search term. In the theme, search.php

 <?php //echo sprintf(__('Search Result For " %s &quot', 'techified'), the_search_query() ); ?>

replaced with

 <?php echo 'Search Result For "'?>
 <?php the_search_query() ?>
 <?php echo '&quot'; ?>

Problems we encountered

Moving wordpress to a new host

Ok, so we've done this before, but it was still a little tricky. Number one problem is the references in the database to the old URL. This handy find and replace script came in useful (I used PHP Myadmin to access the database, and replaced salfordladsclub.net with salfordladsclub.org.uk)

update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],'[string_to_find]','[string_to_replace]');

Widgets for some reason the widgets had reset themselves to defaults (probably after doing the find and replace, so could be my fault) but it seems to be a problem others have had, and also it was quickly fixed manually.

.htaccess file we needed one of these when we changed the default way the site uses it's urls - seen it before, but forgot. Links within the site were down for a few mins while I scrambled the htaccess file together.

plugins and permissions quite a lot of creating files, setting permissions. etc needed for plugins. The copy and pasting of content really is only half the job!

Theme Problems

We added the disqus plugin and that calls it's style sheet in last, so hard to overide it's settings - so put some style calls directly into the Theme header.

The language file has an odd thing going on with what to print in the footer - ended up overiding it with plain text in the end.

Widgets

Sidebar widgets seem have got messed up in the domain move - apparently this can happen! Have searched for easy fixes, but looks as though we may have to rebuild them ourselves - can copy and paste text widgets from .net over.
Fixed by copy and paste!