This is the plan I outlined in today’s email. As I said then, the reality will probably be very different.
- I install WordPress with links to the existing website
- You check that you can still access the site and get to the calendar plus the member information. You should still need to use gin-fizz to see the member information. Please check. Also confirm that there is a small link at bottom right of the front page, under ‘META’, entitled ‘Log in’. You will not be able to use this link at present.
- I enter your email addresses into WordPress and set you all up as ‘subscribers’. The system should send you an email. Not sure whether it creates and sends a default password. We’ll find out.
- You let me know how it has handled passwords. Somehow you should be asked to enter your own password. Then Log in. Your browser should remember the login details so you don’t need to enter this every time in future.
- You should see the WordPress dashboard. There will be a menu on the left. Chose ‘Users’ / ‘All Users’. Confirm that you can see your name, with role of ‘subscriber’, and none other. If you have another email address, try changing it and see what happens – how do you now log in? You should be able to change this by clicking on ‘Your Profile’ in the menu on the left. But make sure that you change the email address back after this testing since that’s currently the link to the stuff in the existing website. Now click ‘Users’ / ‘Users Extended’ and try changing Home phone, Mobile phone or address. Again you will probably want to change them back after testing you can change them.
- You may also want to try forgetting your password on logging in to see how WordPress handles this.
- That should have completed the subscriber testing.
- I now set you all up as ‘authors’. I believe you will receive another email from WordPress to advise of this status change, you may need to reset your passwords, I’m not sure. Let me know.
- Log in again and click ‘Posts’ / ‘Add New’. Try entering a post and see what happens. Select a category for the post, I will set up a list of categories which are just our activities. At any time you can see the results of what you’ve entered by clicking on ‘Gentlemen in Nyon’ in the top bar. Then click on ‘Edit Page’ to get back to the editor. Creating a post may seem a bit daunting at first but I’ll provide some guidelines when we get to that part. The important part is to remember to click ‘Publish’. You will be able to include photos etc in the posts. I would also like you to test changing a post you have created. You should be able to view, but not change, all posts created by others.
- I’ll later provide links so that you can change what activities you subscribe to and also so that you can enter your own calendar entries – and edit those you’ve created.
