>> Lance McBride: I'm going to continue on. We're going to get into some more
of the more advanced task capabilities within WordPress. We're going to review
the plug-ins. And then I'm going to turn it over to Ed and I think he's going
to talk a little about vTools.
>> Ed Perkins:
Are we going to do that now?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
We will check.
>> Lance McBride: We'll figure out what we're doing and then we'll do it. All
right. Let's start out with contact forms. So to do this, you need to install
a contact form plug-in. We're using contact form seven. And everybody wants
donations so it's always a good thing to donate to the plug-in creators. When
you do that, you'll be able to create a new form. So here are some of the
forms that I've created. This is for our region six career expo site. And
when you create a new form, you will be asked to enter the data for that form.
So here is who you're going to send it to. That's my e-mail address. And then
these are contact form fields that you're going to plug in. And in this case,
I entered a subject of Rising Stars and then put in the subject. Then you can
put in anything else in here if you want to. If you want the user to be able
to e-mail you a file, you're going to need to be able to build that into that
form. This is your body. You can type in there whatever you would like to as
well. I can see I need to do some work on this one. These are some of the
actions that will occur if the user successfully or unsuccessfully makes this
form work. So I am going to suggest one thing that you want to change if you
use this particular plug-in. The success -- no, the failure messages on these
two items are so close that you can't tell what they are. And so I changed
this to failed to send message. And then eliminated the your in that and that
way I can tell at least if it fails, why it fails, if it's just a fail to send
or if it was referred to as spam. So it's kind of a nice piece there. And
then the form itself is this, so you're using -- what did you call them, Ed?
Quick links? Short links? So these fields here.
>> Ed Perkins:
Oh, yeah, yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Right there are fields that you would --
But those don't go in the form.
There's a --
>> Lance McBride: There's a fields generator that you can use to generate some
of these forms and so like ->> Ed Perkins:
The asterisk means it's required.
>> Lance McBride: Right. Okay. And so some of this, like this CAPTCHA is
actually an additional plug-in that you would use. And then rate the fields
for that CAPTCHA that you would use to put in the form.
>>:
[Indiscernible] are they going to be in the database on the website?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
No.
How does that work?
>> Lance McBride: That e-mails you their contact information. At least that's
the way this plug-in works. There are other plug-ins I believe that will take
that data and insert it into a database.
>> Ed Perkins: There's a related plug-in contact seven database or whatever
that records everything that was put into any form that was used into a
database. And so the only problem with that I find is that, so if you have
seven forms and you only really wanted to record one of them, everything
that -- all seven forms is -- it's all or none.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. It's not really a useful one. But there may be other
plug-ins that aren't. The IEEE plug-ins for instance that may work for what
you would like.
>>:
So this will be directly lowered to the --
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yes.
-- e-mailed to the person, the e-mails out there.
>> Lance McBride: Whichever you put here.
addresses just comma separating.
And you can add additional
>> Ed Perkins:
Whatever.
Right.
And you can also add a CC field as well or BCC.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. Yeah. So we're currently -- we use this on Rising
Stars and we're currently using it on the region six career expo as well.
>> Ed Perkins: Where it says additional headers, that's where you put the BCC.
It would go in there.
>>: So one example is the rising star.
or [indiscernible]?
Do people use the [indiscernible] form
>> Lance McBride: So Rising Stars we used -- for registration, we used event
bright, which I'll get into in a little bit. But for just general contact
information, we used this form and then for the region six tech expo, the
companies that have interest would use these forms to e-mail.
>>:
So essentially they e-mail to you.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. In fact, on the micro volunteer project that we have
going, we are using these forms and I think it's Chris. He's taken all the
information and just compiling it into an Excel spreadsheet from the e-mails.
>>:
Sometimes hundreds comes in.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
I don't know how many he said he had now.
So is there some automation?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
That's correct.
No.
I don't have anything for you for that.
So people can just go directly to the database.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. There's nothing right now that we've got for that.
No good solution under IEEE. Again, there's probably a solution for generic
WordPress sites that have a plug-in that you can plug in there.
>>: So I guess what would happen when they do the attachment or they write
[indiscernible]?
>> Lance McBride: So for one thing, that's why I used this CAPTCHA. So that
requires that the user, assuming it's a human, be able to read this four-digit
number and then plug that number in. So that's why this is on here to get past
the spam robots. So if you have got -- there are some robots that will go out
and just plug data into these type of forms and just send it to you. So you
get -- it's just junk coming through. So at least with this, it shows that
you've got a human user or a very smart robot.
>>:
Oh, okay.
That one, huh?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yeah.
So you'll just send that to us?
>> Lance McBride: So I'm going to go over to CAPTCHA in just a minute. Hey,
there it is. What do you know? So I'm using the really simple CAPTCHA
plug-in. It's really simple to use. You just activate it and plug the code in
as I just showed you in the form. Once you have got all of that set up, then
you can produce a form like this that I told you about before the break.
Pretty straightforward.
>>:
CAPTCHA.
>> Lance McBride: That's the one I'm using. There are numerous CAPTCHA
plug-ins. I will say that. And even in our IEEE tool set, we have I think 3
or 4 of them. So I just use the really simple one. Works nicely. And you end
up with that. So one other thing. If you're developing websites, you need to
know more about how your users are using your website in order to better
provide them with better user experience. So on IEEE we use this plug-in
called counterize and counterize has a lot of different plug-ins and things
that you can look at if you're so inclined. So for instance, I don't look at
the browsers that people are using, but if the you're interested in what
country they're coming from, their IP address, what keywords they're using to
find your site, if you're interested in their operating systems, out links,
what they're doing after they leave your site, what pages they go to. So
there's a lot of different statistics that you can glean from this and figure
out what is working and what is working on your site.
>>:
So does it count the numbers like from Spain?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yes.
Like three of them from Spain?
>> Lance McBride: Yes, that's exactly the point. So here's an example of some
of the reports. So if you go -- once you've installed this plug-in, it will
put this on your left menu, counterize, and if you click on that, you can click
on various subpieces to that or you can just hit the page. And the page has
all of the statistics that it gathers. So it's kind of a useful one. So in
this case, this is for our region six site. And for the period that we're
looking at here, we had 22,000 or so hits in the U.S. from China and France and
the Ukraine. I don't know why we always get a lot from France and the Ukraine
but that's good.
>>:
It's a visitor to the site.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So every visitor that comes and visits this site,
there are tags that are associated with that visit that come from your
browsers. For instance if you were to go to our region six site, the site
itself would capture what browser you're using for instance. It's part of the
transfer there. The ones I'm more interested in are things like hit counters.
I was mentioning this to you earlier, that the IEEE region six site, when I got
it, we had about -- I think it was 40 unique visitors for the year. So it
wasn't a real popular site. And so now, this is, in the last 30 days, we've
had 3,300. So for me, that's a big improvement and it's something that I'm
really happy to see that people are starting on use the site more. If you're
interested in the hits of the day or the months, hits for the current month,
you can look at it by hour. Maybe more people are coming by your site during
lunchtime. So if you post new content, maybe you should post it around that
time or before that time or after that time. Whatever your marketing structure
is. Another one that I like to look at is where are they coming from. So we
get a lot from Google. I still don't note why these are, but www.IEEE region
six has that a referring domain but that is -- we get Google, we get Yahoo.
Some of this other stuff. I guess these are Bing down here. So there's
most -- the majority of our traffic comes from Google which that's the most
popular search engine. We already knew that. Where are people going? This is
a critical piece to your site. If you want to know how your site is used, look
at this. So the home page is the most popular. It's not unexpected. But I
still don't understand this one. We have outstanding life member groups
announced. I think there might be a post about somebody famous with the same
name dying on that site. That's why people go there. I think Bill Murray is
the one that's on there. So that may be why people go to that. Region six
information, this is where we list all of our contacts for regional officers.
So obviously people are visiting that site. The calendar has come up
considerably since I put that up. And people are using that. So you kind of
get the idea. Here's Bill Murray's site right there but you want to look at
this and pay attention to how people are using your site. That way, you know
what to make changes to if you need to to drive traffic to those pages. All
right. That's kind of the counterize and the statistics side. Let's talk
about theme customization which each already talked about so I won't spend too
much time on this. But so this is the customization for the Rising Stars
conference and here you can see that you can change the new header. These are
some of the uploaded headers I used previously. This one didn't quite fit so I
changed it to that one. You can change some things in the themes, some things
you can't change. Another good plug-in is the redirector. So this is the
simple 301 redirects. And let's say somebody comes to your site and they want
to look at -- we want to associate let's say another site or another page with
our site. So the IEEE Rising Stars conference, people can go to the IEEE
region six site slash Rising Stars and that will redirect them to our Rising
Stars dedicated site. This does a couple things for you. If you're hosting a
conference and you want to get high on the Google search engine list. This
gives you two hits into that Google search engine statistics. So it's nice if
you're trying to get more interest in your site.
>> Ed Perkins:
We should do that with --
>> Lance McBride: I don't know if that makes sense yet. We'll talk more about
search engine optimization real shortly. But it creates a doable link. It's
really easy to use. So here are some of the redirects that I've created so
let's see. VC. So okay, R six career expo. So this is the new site that I'm
putting together and now if you go to IEEE-region six.org slash R six career
expo. It will take you to the dedicated region six career expo site. And some
of these others, areas and sections, these are two pages. We used to have our
contact information split up into areas and sections. Well, I combined that
and created a redirect to take us to just the one page.
>>:
Can you put a page relative linking in there too?
>> Lance McBride:
You could do that as well.
I think you can anyway.
>>:
Just drop down to the middle of the page --
>> Lance McBride: Yes, you could do that too, we should do that. That's a
good idea. And then for Rising Stars, we set up a visual conference site and
redirected that to vie copious and it didn't work out but that's a different
story. But we had that set up. The MapPress, so Ed talk about this a little
bit already. If you want to add Google Maps into your site, just activate the
MapPress easy Google Maps. That easy. Simple or easy. You're getting the
idea here? So when you're in the editor, let's see. Did I do that -- I did
that backwards. All right. So within the editor, if you have a MapPress
plug-in activated, you'll see this interface and it will look just about like
that to start out with and then you'll click add and you can create a map, add
a point of interest, and it will bring that up in the Google Maps. You can add
multiple points of interest if you have more than one that you want to add to
the map and it will put a little balloon on them. And you can set a size so
you can do one of the standard sizes or you can create a custom size and you
can add a title to it and then it has this ID. That's the critical piece. So
then you'll save that. Did I save that? No. Let's see. I saved it anyway.
And then it will give you a link and you'll add the link to your text for your
site so this is again one of these short links that you'll plug into your site
and the WordPress will interpret that later when it regenerates or generates
the page and put that map in there.
>> Ed Perkins: That's one of those short codes in square brackets. I'm not
sure what happens when you put something that's not a short code into square
brackets.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe that's how you do comments.
Maybe everything is interpreted.
I don't know.
>> Lance McBride: So then I already talked about this a little as well but I
want to reiterate on it so this is how you would at categories so again when
you create a post, you can assign categories to that post. So for instance I
could assign -- I could create a post, assign it to awards. And then if I take
the category awards and I move it into the menu structure, then it will list
that here. So this as I said, this is our awards static page. Any posts are
in the awards news and then I have a couple of other static pages as well that
we've created so now anytime I create a post, assign a category of awards to
it, it will show up in the page here. I don't know if that makes sense. So if
I click on awards, I get the static page. This is our awards static page. If
I click awards news, I get the words category. And so all of the posts that
have been assigned category words show up sequentially from newest to oldest
down the list. Does that make sense? This is the blogging aspect of
WordPress. Search engine optimization. So when we go back into the editor for
both the pages and the posts, you'll see if you have this installed, the
WordPress search engine optimization by Yost, you will see this. And so here
it will pull a lot of data from the page that you created. The content that
you have created in your page. So you want to do this as kind of a last step
which is why it's all the way at the bottom. So you can plug in a keyword in
this case this is educational activities newsletter so I plugged in the keyword
of education. And then the search engine title. It will pull this from your
title of the page. You can change it if you'd like to but you don't have to.
You want to put in a description here. So the meta description is if you bring
up Google and you search for let's say DeLorean and it will put up a list of
DeLorean pages and each page will have some kind of description underneath it.
That's where this comes from so you want to include that in there. It's
important as well. And then you can put in meta keywords, specific meta
keywords if you want to as well but it will pull those from the page. Why is
this important? Any ideas? Who's done search engine optimization before?
Anybody? So we only have one person. All right. So back in the day when we
were creating static web page and websites, you could put in these things
called Meta Tags. That's what this is doing. It's creating those Meta Tags
for you automatically and those are important because when the search engines
come and they look at your page, they look at those Meta Tags to see what is
this page about. Some of them anyway. And they will use these tags and if the
content has for instance the keyword, and somebody doesn't search for
education, that gives it let's say two hits versus a page that doesn't have the
meta keyword of education. It may have education in the content of the page
but it may not hit the two links so this is a way to get your page, your
content, higher on the search engines than any others. That's why it's
important. So the tools. I'm going to cover this for those of you who are not
involved with IEEE this may not make a whole lot of sense but for those of us
with it, this is huge because do a lot of event-based programming for IEEE so
the IEEE vTools events requires an IEEE log in to add the data. When you do
that, you can schedule a meeting and so this is like for this meeting, probably
put in this data into this form for this meeting and so it shows up in the
all-in-one event calendar for region six. You go to region six right now, look
at the calendar, you'll see that for today's listing. It just automatically
appears as long as the calendars are set up to pull the feed from the vTools.
If you need it to show up instantly, you have to manually refresh that feed and
I'll show you that in a bit here. This is the form that you would use so you
plug in your title, description, and there's a bunch of other fields down here.
It's only about three pages long. But those are critical to get your data into
the calendar. So the other thing is there are applications, remote control
applications. I know for the iPhone and iPad, I have them on my iPhone and
iPad. I don't know about Android phones. I'm sorry I'm not an Android user.
There probably is but if you would like to be able to manage your site like
from here, let's say you're here and you have a blog site you're saying how
great Lance's talk is ->>:
It's also on Android.
>> Lance McBride:
app.
That is what I figured.
So confirmed, there is an Android
>> Ed Perkins: It's just the dashboard part of the site.
use your browser to look at the site.
It's nothing -- you
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. These applications are limited. I will say that.
But you can take a picture for instance and you can write some text on a page
and create a post and get that all from your phone or your tablet, create it,
but what I found is like the pictures, there's no scaling of the pictures so my
native iPhone picture shows up in the page which is like gargantuan. It's huge
and there's no way to change that in the application.
>> Ed Perkins:
scale in?
Oh, they won't let you click on the thing and go in and put the
>> Lance McBride:
Not on the iPhone app anyway.
>> Ed Perkins: Can you see the text? If you can see the text, you go in and
you can put an image tag. You can put ->> Lance McBride: Doesn't work that way. So there's some limitations. But it
is kind of handy if you are doing some remote work and you have to absolutely
get something online, you can do it with that. So let's talk about eCommerce a
little bit. I think this will be more interesting to folks. As we've said,
there's no credit card transactions on IEEE WordPress sites. But there are
ways still to do eCommerce. And so for conferences, we've been using event
bright. Show you that in a minute. And if you're selling items, you can use
Amazon, Pay Pal, or some other eCommerce engine. We have for instance a
company that's creating promotional items for us. They're going to sell those
items on their website and we will link over to them. That's how we're doing
that. Event bright is a great site if you're setting up if you're registering
and require payment for registration. They take a percentage.
>>:
I thought they had the --
>> Lance McBride:
That's right.
>>:
Is that right?
Oh, that's right.
Non-profit.
It's depends on your status.
I have been paying.
>> Lance McBride: You need to set up your non-profit.
I think it's a taxpayer ID and some information there.
that up.
>>:
They'll require a page.
But yeah, you can set
So you can have no percentage.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So that's good. So this is what we set up for the
Rising Stars conference. If you clicked on register for the conference, it
would take you to this site and you'd get an idea what the fees are and so
forth. Obviously this is ended. It's time-based. From an Amazon perspective,
again, if you're selling items through your WordPress site, this is an Amazon
link. I haven't used the Amazon or Pay Pal links so I can't tell you too much
about them but I will tell you that they exist. Looks like you can set up your
Amazon store right on your WordPress site which is really neat. And then this
is your simple Pay Pal shopping cart. There's a couple of Pay Pal plug ins
that are really useful. This one is one and then the other one is this one
here. Then there's another one that I didn't put up here. If you're a
non-profit and you want to get donations, you can set that up. There's a Pay
Pal donations plug-in as well. Which is kind of neat. So here's some
resources for the Pay Pal plug-ins and the Amazon web store. I would strongly
encourage you to go down this path rather than setting up your own secure
servers. I've been down that path. I'm not prepared to discuss all the
details that are required but if you like looking at security logs on an hourly
basis and feeling nervous about hackers getting into your site and stealing
credit card information, by all means, go down that path. Otherwise stick with
somebody that's already done it and monitors it.
>> Ed Perkins: Pay Pal plug-in you have to pay for, don't you?
premium plug-in from WPM U dev.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
that one.
Because it's a
Yeah.
Do they all have to be paid for, the Pay Pal ones?
Or just
>> Lance McBride: No. There's some free ones here. So these two are free.
There's several that are free. All right. I was going to show you, go back to
showing you some stuff on here. Not that one. This one. No, not that one.
Where is it? So I've kind of shown you what some of the stuff looks like but I
wanted to go through it with you so you can see how it's used. We'll start out
with counterize and it's loading I think. There we go. So as I mentioned
there, you've got the countries that you could go through and you can see all
the different countries that come in. The most visiting countries in 24 hours,
most searched keywords. So these are what people are using to find our site.
Region. We get a lot for region. Western region of the U.S., all those you
want. This is what people are doing after they are leaving our site. So
they're going to IEEE itself or maybe the Rising Stars conference. So you get
an idea. There's a lot of statistics here that you can glean and look through
and get in insight as to how to better optimize your suite for the future. I
never really went over media but I want to do this a little bit. When you add
a new piece of media, which you can do that through this interface, not only
through the editor so you can just drag the files in here. Showed you how to
do that earlier. But you can also edit the media. You can delete things if
you're no longer using them. Delete permanently or edit this. So here's the
link so you're talking about where you get the link for the promotional stuff.
>> Ed Perkins:
That's still a page.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Right.
You have to actually edit the photograph.
So this is the file URL here.
Yeah, that's what you want.
Sorry.
You want the file URL.
>> Lance McBride: So let's go through and look at plug ins. I wanted to go
through all these plug-ins with you. So from the IEEE site, we'll skip through
some of this stuff. So there's the 404 notifier. Everybody know what a 404
is? A page not found. Ad rotate. Somebody asked about can you put ads on the
site? Yes, you can. Ad rotate is a good one for that. Let's go to settings
for ad rotate. This is the problem with plug-ins. They put their settings in
different places so you have to know where their configuration is. There it
is. So we go to ad rotate. I don't think -- we aren't currently using this.
I'm getting set up to use this on our site. So we currently have two
advertisements. You could pay for the pro version or not. So if we click on
the setup, take a look at these. We have two demo images installed here. One
is a 468 by 60 and one's a 200 by 200. They have expired. So you can set an
expiration date up for them. So if we click on this, so here's the ad code.
So you can add this for instance into the promo site if you wanted to. You can
save it. You can preview it. There's all kinds of settings and features you
can use here in the ad rotate. But this is a way to get advertisements up on
your site.
>> Ed Perkins:
There's a short code too if you scroll down to that.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. We've got advanced custom fields, advanced iframe. I
haven't used these. Ajax event calendars. There's all kinds of different
calendars that you can use. I'll show you how to do the Google calendar here
in a minute. Ask net we talked about. We're using this all-in-one event
calendar. This is the mobile theme switcher so here, you can detect -- it will
automatically detect if you're browsing from a mobile phone for instance and
create a simpler theme, a simpler field to the site. I don't use that.
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah, yeah.
>> Lance McBride: If you'd like to have RSS feed automatically posted to
different blogs on your WordPress site, you can do that with auto blog.
>> Ed Perkins:
Right.
So you get the RSS feed and it turns into posts.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. If you want to use Avatars -- I don't know.
are they really used much these days?
Avatars,
>> Ed Perkins: I don't know. If you're having people write blogs but we're
not using it for that. We're doing it for information.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
If you want to create the new Facebook, you can use that.
Yeah, right.
Face Press.
>> Lance McBride: You can automatically block spam bots if you want to with
bad behavior. The better WordPress re-CAPTCHA, again, another CAPTCHA plug-in.
I don't even know what blueberry power press does. Add podcasting support to
your blog if you want to create audio blogs. Another calendar which we don't
use and CAPTCHA which you don't use. Sticky posts.
>> Ed Perkins: That's for categories. They're sticky posts by default which
means your post always shows up at the top of the list. So if you had some
generic information, like whatever your blog was about and you could have some
kind for questions contact me at such and such or make that -- just stay there
at the top. There's contact form seven.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. Collapse automatic.
jQuery collapsible -- I have no idea --
Wraps the context into a lovely
>> Ed Perkins: If you're really an HTML, that probably means something to you.
But it doesn't mean anything to us.
>> Lance McBride:
Tag clouds.
I can't use tag clouds.
>> Ed Perkins: The thing is, our themes, if you look, there's widget that
shows you a tag cloud. So you'd have to add plug-in to do it.
>> Lance McBride: Contact form seven is what we're using. And there's
different modules so you can add hidden fields, send all fields. You can do
the database like what we talked about. But again, that database just takes
all of the data from all of the forms so we don't use that. Counterize, I have
a bunch of counterized plug-ins activated. The custom CSS manager is something
I really haven't done much with. You can use that if you're wanting to change
the look and feel.
>> Ed Perkins: There's some examples we can show them later of that because
that -- yeah. It's probably useful to show them.
>> Lance McBride: Okay. If you want to create a Google search instead of the
WordPress search, you can activate that plug-in. Custom post type user
interface. So you can read that there.
>> Ed Perkins:
That's more advanced.
>> Lance McBride: Here's another contact form seven plug-in. Duplicate posts
so you can create if you would like to create duplicate posts. We haven't used
that either. There's dynamic widgets which you can create different widgets on
different pages.
>> Lance McBride: Right. So if you have what particular [indiscernible]
content and from that particular one you want to have a widget that might have
special things that only apply, you can do that.
>> Lance McBride: This is a slide show in using slider light.
is like the gallery except it rotates images.
>> Ed Perkins:
much required.
The slide shows
And WordPress I think has that built in now so it may not be so
>> Lance McBride: All of these plug-ins I'm assuming were acquired at some
point by somebody in IEEE so they're using it somehow.
>>:
Attached like a [indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins:
Just upload the PowerPoint.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yeah.
You upload it.
Upload it as media.
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: And it would create a text link to that PowerPoint
presentation. So it's not like the content. PowerPoint presentation would
show up in the page. It would show up as a link to a file.
>> Ed Perkins:
When you click to it, then it will download the file.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
It's in the media.
Media library.
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah, that.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins:
We got to have somewhere in there there's too many JPEGs.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah, I did a lot of work recently --
>> Ed Perkins: You can select things that are not -- look at bulk actions -no, no, wrong one. Images but it won't show you anything that's not an image.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins:
There's instructions, okay.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So that was -- all right. So right here there's an
instruction. So this is an Excel file. It's the same -- it's just a document.
Here's a doc file. So you could do the same thing.
>> Ed Perkins:
Actually, if you go to the 2030, IEEE 2030 post.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Yeah, that's the PPT from the 2030.
Upload the PowerPoint to the library.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
It doesn't work.
That's correct.
A link to the library.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So you'd use this file URL for instance right here.
So that's the URL that you plug in and then if we go to the posts, because I
put it in a post.
>> Ed Perkins:
IEEE 2030.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
That's it right there.
So if I edit this.
Put the PowerPoint right on the --
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
undo.
Click on the link and it downloads the PowerPoint file.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Just
I'll do that.
Just don't save it.
>> Lance McBride:
here.
>>:
That's it right there.
So video is a little bit different.
You would embed that in
Can you show it?
>> Lance McBride: I'm trying to think if I have anything that I could show
you. Ed probably does.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins: That's what we were talking about, yeah.
and see if they have anything there. Insert video.
Look on the M cert
>> Lance McBride: Insert video right there. And then that's where you put the
URL, so if you upload the video into your media, you could get the URL from
that. Or if you upload it to YouTube ->>: The embedded -- has an embedded thing, too. So if you have the -- get the
YouTube code for the thing and paste the event code in there.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
Let's just pick a video.
[NO AUDIO FROM 0:42:40 to 0:44:44]
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Search.
We need 2030.
Which is -- it's older than latest.
>> Ed Perkins: What category? IEEE news.
Scroll down. [Indiscernible] category.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Right here?
No, no.
>> Lance McBride:
Look for IEEE news category.
IEEE news.
IEEE in 2030.
I think it put it, it's IEEE news.
I saved it.
>> Ed Perkins: I think there's two of them.
it. That might be the one.
>> Lance McBride: Let's go back and see here.
category? IEEE news. I'm not seeing it.
>> Ed Perkins:
It's not there.
I think you added it and I added
It's under category.
Go back to the search.
>> Lance McBride:
disappeared.
The video is gone.
When I clicked save, the video
>> Ed Perkins: Oh, because the iframes are not a supported tag.
inserted video and you put the embed code in [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
it.
What
It's an
Let's go back to YouTube and try this again.
So even though it claims it may do it, it may not actually do
>> Lance McBride:
So let's just see.
>> Ed Perkins: It knows it's something because it put the big square box in
there. Do a view post. That's the easiest thing to do.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
It's gone again.
It's gone.
>> Lance McBride:
I have done this before.
>> Ed Perkins: Use the advanced iframe. You put advanced iframe in and then
you put the video into the advanced iframe plug-in and then that interprets it
properly. So you really can't embed something.
>> Lance McBride: Not without knowing what you're doing, sounds like.
Ed when here up here to do that again.
So ask
>> Ed Perkins: Okay. Actually we probably should go to the plug-in and see if
there's any documentation for the plug-in. Like installed plug-ins. There was
no plug-in, was there?
>> Lance McBride: No, this was just embedded. I'll keep going down the
plug-ins list here. See if we can get some better idea of what we use. All
right. So where did we leave off here? All right. So easy team manager, can
create team members, a short description, social profile. So we might use
something like that for the IEEE organization. Exclude pages from navigation.
So you can remove them from any consumer site page listings. Like from
Facebook members.
>> Ed Perkins:
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. You can add additional content short codes so that
the short codes like we've been playing in for like the map blast are in there.
>> Ed Perkins:
revitalized.
So they might have put that into because the editor got
>> Lance McBride:
Another slider.
So this is another image slide tool.
>> Ed Perkins: That's for the genesis framework and then I keep looking
around, do we have the genesis framework. I didn't know what the genesis
framework was. So there's stuff that people have requested.
>>:
What is [indiscernible]?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
A slider.
Sliders.
Side bars or sliders?
What's a slider, what's a side bar?
>> Lance McBride:
slow.
>>:
Oh, a slide show.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
So slider is again the gallery that creates kind of a slide
Okay.
Side bars is like the left and right side bars.
Like side bars, okay.
>> Lance McBride: You can create your own short codes with global content
blocks. All kinds of good stuff in iframes. If you want to use Google
Analytics, another way to look at the statistics on your site, enable this
page. The whole calendar event, so again, I can show you how to do Google
calendars, but this is another calendaring tool. You can embed documents from
your Google docs folders and so forth in here. Google XML.
>> Ed Perkins:
Had another site [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. If you don't like contact forums, you can use gravity
forums and gravity forums with [indiscernible]. So if you have a mail chimp
account. [Indiscernible] icon so that's the icon up here. Right there.
Right?
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
can do that.
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah.
So you can set that if you enable that plug-in, you
That's what the IEEE is.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. Right there. Here, this is probably something we're
going to start doing with IEEE members sign-ons so IEEE members have to sign on
to the IEEE site, also use our site.
>> Ed Perkins:
Right.
>> Lance McBride:
the new content.
We don't know how to use that.
We haven't used it, but I think we probably will to allow
>> Ed Perkins:
set that up.
>>:
Probably need to check with staff and find out exactly how to
What's equivalent [indiscernible] IEEE but for what [indiscernible]?
>> Lance McBride: So that's where the -- what is it? Web user or WordPress
user. Somebody asked about that earlier, to provide user access.
>> Ed Perkins:
Oh, oh, oh, accounts, yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
>> Ed Perkins: Well, you can make user accounts but you have to log in.
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: There's a ton of different plug-ins that you can use for
that. So this in line upload, if you have for instance kind of a blog with
user content like let's say you've got, I don't know, a forum for your product,
you could have in line upload that would allow users to upload images as well
as create text in that forum. That's how that would work. If you want to
switch themes for an IOS device, because we have a mobile phone theme, you
could also use an IOS alternate theme. I don't know what issue embedded is.
The Java query allows you to use jQuery. You've got the MapPress which we
already talked about. Media tags allows you to tag media and attachments. I
don't know if you noticed [indiscernible] already without this tag plug-in that
you can add more functionality. Here's another slide show. Meta slider. Meta
Tag manager. So again, this is kind of the search and optimization side of
things. You can add Meta Tags with this. We don't use this because we already
have a search engine exception. Mine valley creates a [indiscernible] to
include content from another posted page. So you were asking me about how to
embed images. This might be a way to at least embed the images not zooming in
on image from another site. That's a different matter. Probably a plug-in to
do that, though. Next gen galleries, this is an image gallery, again, next gen
public uploader is another plug-in that allows users to plug in [indiscernible]
our site. On swipe.
>>:
Another tablet.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
So this is a tablet view of your site.
>>:
So the [indiscernible] public uploader [indiscernible] upload picture?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yeah.
If I want to upload my picture, I can do that.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
That's correct.
Yeah.
So right now, IEEE region six, so can I upload a photo?
>> Lance McBride: No. Because I don't have that activated. I don't allow
people to comment on stuff, but if you did have that capability, this is what
you'd use so you could upload an image to it if you wanted to. I can think of
a lot of ways to -- I can think of a few ways to be useful and a lot of ways to
misuse this. Page links allows you to point to WordPress pages or posts or to
a URL of your choosing. Here's password protected.
>> Ed Perkins: Right. So this is the one that you would put on your site if
you couldn't get into without the password.
>>:
Oh, you can get in without password.
>> Ed Perkins:
No, no, you have to have a password.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Right.
This is one you'd set up to have password access.
To do any post?
>> Lance McBride: It's more like you had talked about a video server where
you'd have access for people with a log-in ->> Ed Perkins: I think you could go to the site you just looked up and says
enter password. So you can't even get to the site without typing a password.
>>: So for example, logging to a bank site, I need this so that they can let
people so use the site that way. Is that -- no? That has nothing do with
this?
>> Ed Perkins: So if your site's under development, you can put password
protected on so nobody can see your site until you're done developing.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
document says.
Yeah.
This looks like it accesses the whole site.
You can right click on visit plug-in site and see what the
>> Lance McBride: That's true. If you have any questions about any of the
plug-ins, you can come over and look at the plug-in documentation. Doesn't
protect any images.
>> Ed Perkins:
[Indiscernible] you can probably just get the URL.
>> Lance McBride: That's the thing. Whenever it comes to security, you have
to be very careful about what you do. May not be the type of security that you
think it is.
>> Ed Perkins:
Another gallery.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So another gallery here.
detector that Ed mentioned.
>>:
This is the plug-in
What is it?
>> Lance McBride: It looks at all the plug-ins you have and analyzes to see
how much time they spend to load and things like that. So if you've got one
that's really slow and take up a lot of resources, you can identify it with
this. If you want to use poll daddy, we don't use this anymore. We used to
use it, but IEEE now has the ability to create surveys and so forth. If you
want to create a poll on your site, poll daddy. Posting. This is the posting
by mail features so you can e-mail content and Ed mentioned that one. So posts
in a page. This is the one where you can actually have a static page and has
posts show up in it. That profile builder.
>> Ed Perkins:
So that means users are going to have profiles.
>> Lance McBride: Where your Avatars and things like that come into play.
translates. Multi removal content.
>>:
That's useful, right?
Q
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yeah.
So how do we use that one?
Can you show us an example.
>> Lance McBride: I'm not going to have an example [indiscernible].
translate. Probably as good as you can get out of Google translate.
Q
>>: Let me understand. Q translate means that I can translate the whole page
into Chinese or is like when user goes to the website, they choose a word and
have it translated to Chinese?
>> Lance McBride:
bad Chinese.
[Laughter]
It's more like it would take the page and translate it into
>> Ed Perkins: I suspect there's some probably icon that you click, you know,
Chinese or English or something like that and it would re-display the content
[indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
form seven.
Yeah.
All right.
That really simple capture is the one that works with contact
>>: So if for example, I need to have a web page to have a mixture of Chinese
and English, I cannot equal Chinese.
>> Lance McBride:
WordPress.
>>:
You copy the word in Chinese and then [indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
So anything you can put into word you can copy into
Paste it there.
Paste it in, okay.
>> Lance McBride:
You were going to ask a question.
>>: I don't quite get this [indiscernible] is it all plug-ins that the R six
website users or just people can download them from here?
>> Lance McBride:
could use.
>> Ed Perkins:
You could use them as well because they're publicly available.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
These are all plug-ins that region six and any IEEE site
Yes.
That's correct.
They're not necessarily embedded in your website.
>> Lance McBride: That's correct. So a lot of these I have activated so you
can see here like that one I have activated. This one I had activated. These
two I have activated.
>> Ed Perkins: And the more plug-ins, the slower your site loads because it's
got more stuff to run through every time.
>>:
But you still [indiscernible]?
Hundred?
200?
>> Lance McBride: So IEEE has about 111? 115. But those are the ones that we
could load in so those are the ones that are installed but not activated.
Activated, I think there's when you start up the site, maybe 4 or 5 that are
activated. We'll see that tomorrow in the lab. As a non-WordPress user, the
sky's the limit. You've got 32,000 that you could install and activate if you
want to. I would just be careful if you install them and activate them. As
you saw earlier, if they're activated, sometimes they just stay activated, even
if you deactivate them. And I see that with some of the plug-ins we use from
the region six site as well. I tried to disable some of the calendars and get
rid of them.
>>:
[Indiscernible] malicious kind of thing.
>> Lance McBride:
Interesting.
>>: You think it does something and then it does something else to you and it
grabs all your data and things like that. Are there things like that?
>> Ed Perkins: Well, typically if you download it from WordPress, there's a
chelating process that they put these things through so that they're not going
to let people do that. There's a thing that no plug-in can go off and do
something with a third party site. There's a plug-in that I was using for
something and they were checking -- it was a spam thing and they were
referencing some third-party thing and somebody complained about it and the
plug-in got pulled off the WordPress.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. I don't think it would last long on the WordPress
site, but there probably are plug-ins out there that would do that if you're
not careful. And they charge you 20 bucks for it too.
[Laughter]
>> Ed Perkins:
this and this.
Somebody's reading a blog, hey, get this great plug-in, it does
Click here to download. You know.
>> Lance McBride: So all of these are free because they're from IEEE. So the
ones on WordPress.com are free. But not all of the plug-ins that are available
are free so you could go to a non-WordPress.com site get a plug-in and they
might charge you a hundred dollars.
>> Ed Perkins: Or as you saw, contact, then the guy wants a donation.
free but he'd like to get a donation.
>>:
Many of them share their source code?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
So it's
It's all open source.
So you can see if [indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins: You go and download, you get a zip file, unexpanded zip file,
and there's all the code. So yeah. So you can see all the code.
>>:
Plug-ins reside on your computer?
>> Lance McBride: No. They reside on the database.
again, they're up in this ->> Ed Perkins:
So there again, there
They're actually physically files.
>> Lance McBride: That's correct. So the plug-ins, if you're creating your
WordPress side, you would download the plug-in to your computer and then
install it on to your site. At that point, it resides on that site.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. What you don't see here is in the regular WordPress
under the plug-in thing, you can search for plug-ins on a WordPress and you can
pick them and install them which means you download and it puts the code in.
So part of what we didn't say about WordPress sites is there's a whole
directory structure where all the WordPress code goes in and the themes go in
there and the plug-ins go in there and the media files go in there and then
everything else is in the database.
>> Lance McBride: So if you install a theme, it's the same as if you were to
install a plug-in. You download the theme, install the theme. And because
this is a hosted WordPress site on IEEE, we don't have access to install
plug-ins with themes. Is we've I guess gone and in IEEE have gone to some
extent to make sure that these themes and these plug-ins work well together.
>> Ed Perkins: Right. They actually have a Q/A site and they write things out
and see. Sometimes plug-ins will conflict with other plug-ins because they're
developed by different people and they chose and variable name or something or
other which conflicts with something else but they weren't using the other
thing so who knows if it's a conflict? There's like 30,000 of them.
>> Lance McBride: The other thing I haven't mentioned is you can take the IEEE
theme, whichever one you want, and you can host your IEEE site on a WordPress
site, install the IEEE theme, and then you have access to do whatever you want
to install on plug-ins or themes.
>>: Tell us again.
works?
>> Lance McBride:
it works.
>>:
Okay.
That sounds a great idea.
So can you show us how that
Well, I can't show you how it works, but I can tell you how
Tell us.
>> Lance McBride: I recently walked somebody through this. So they -- what
they wanted was they wanted to have their WordPress site as does the rest of
the world wants their WordPress site without the restrictions that IEEE puts on
it. And so they download it we can provide the IEEE themes, the look and feel
that we have for IEEE websites and then you can install those themes on your
WordPress site.
>> Ed Perkins:
theme.
If you're not an IEEE unit, they're not going to give you the
>> Lance McBride: That's true. If you're not an IEEE unit, you're not going
to get those themes but if you are and you wanted to do that, you could do
that. So I think it's Bonaventura or one of those California sites wasn't do
that. So that would -- it does a couple things. It gives you more control
over your IEEE site. You can install plug-ins I mentioned, whatever plug-ins
you want to, but on the other hand, you don't get the benefit of having it QA
through the IEEE organization.
>>: Question about the [indiscernible]. Somebody use IEEE logo, and create
their own website, IEEE website and collect information from members, is that
legal?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
>> Ed Perkins:
And I mean, that's like any other unauthorized use of IEEE.
[Indiscernible].
One of the members did that.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
It's not legal and IEEE would pursue that, I'm sure.
IEEE would pursue that.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
>>:
No.
Yeah.
I shot it.
Not good.
So that's not legal, right?
So I wasn't wrong.
>> Lance McBride: I'll keep going through this. We're almost to the end of
this. CMS like permissions for reading and editing. So you can restrict
content beyond the built-in user level access.
>> Ed Perkins: That's like the other one, I can't remember what it was called,
the app. The one we mentioned earlier. I can't remember the name. The user
groups or whatever.
>> Lance McBride: Right. RSS include pages. So here you can include pages
and not just posts in RSS feeds. So share and follow. Way to manage sharing
and following for social networking so this is the plug-in that you would use
on IEEE. So it's the one that creates this right here.
>> Ed Perkins:
No, down there.
It's the one in the post.
>> Lance McBride: That's right. Simple redirect. I mentioned this one
already. Plug in and allows you to redirect to another site, page redirect.
Dropbox upload forum. If you use Dropbox, you can use the short code to create
a Dropbox upload. Smart maintenance mode allows you to set your site to
maintenance mode so you can see the coming soon page. We talked about that a
little bit.
>>:
That's another thing you can use rather than have it just a please log in.
>> Lance McBride:
again. Yeah.
>>:
Yeah.
And I think this applies to the whole site though
Somebody was asking about that but I don't think she's here.
>> Lance McBride: There's a social media icons widget.
using that. Apparently don't need it anymore.
>>:
We're not currently
But you have that [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. The smart quiz. If you wanted to allow users to take
quizzes like they do on Facebook, are you a Jedi or are you a Sith? Stealth
publish. So this prevents specific posts. So this is kind of the -- this is
one of the better ways I think to create working content or work in progress
pages, use this stealth publish so you can publish or not. Subpages. So this
allows to you show subpages on empty pages. Most people probably don't know
what that is. Use it if you want to. Syndicate. So this is a syndication
aggregator so you can get feeds from a bunch of different places, plug them
into one. If you have a countdown to something, like we should probably put a
countdown to our next conference on there, you can do this. T minus count
down. Table press. I don't use table press.
>> Ed Perkins: Table press lets you upload a CSV file and put a table on your
site so if you have -- maybe names and e-mail and phone number, you can
maintain an Excel save this CSV file and upload it and it's there and you don't
have to do any styling or anything like that so it's useful for stuff like
that. Or you can put definite Word and just paste from Word and there's the
table. So it's half and half. Some people like table press. You can also
have -- if you have a very long table, you can display ten entries and have a
more button to see the next ten or fancy things like that.
>> Lance McBride: So the next one
now. So this allows you to future
coming out and you want to publish
want to get the work done earlier,
is just an extension of that. The future is
timestamp posts. So if you got an event
that closer to the event but you actually
you can do that.
>> Ed Perkins: You can do that with a post anytime because when you go in
and -- I don't know if it's when you're creating the post but after you publish
it, you can go back and do a quick edit and you can go and change the time to
post as publish. Let's say you were supposed to publish this last week and you
forgot so you go back and you can change the date when it's published to be
last week. Inside you'll see it was created but in terms of the listing and a
list of posts, [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Tiny MC is kind of outdated. It creates some advanced
features within the WYSIWYG editor, which WordPress four already includes I
think.
>> Ed Perkins: It lets you do -- you can specify font sizes and font families
and some other nice things like that that you otherwise don't have access to.
>>: What happens with our other website, we can't do the four so we had the
three point something. I couldn't add the sides or the front of the web. So I
input this.
>> Lance McBride: That works. Yeah. So Twitter goodies will show your tweets
in the side bar area. So if you are a tweeter rather than a WordPresser.
>> Ed Perkins:
Or a Facebooker.
>> Lance McBride: Or a Facebooker. Whatever the right term is, you can tweet
nice. Twitter, widget pro, kind of same deal.
>>:
Tag cloud.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. The ultimate tag cloud widget. So again, we don't
really use tag clouds. So you can also use Google libraries. So JavaScript
libraries from Google's AJAX libraries. I don't even know what all that means.
Haven't really done anything with that.
>>: I have a question. Like our site use three point something. I always see
the notices that WordPress 4.3 or 4.1 there. How are we going to get it to a
new version? How do I update?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Well, your site is not hosted in IEEE, is it?
It is.
>> Ed Perkins:
Oh, okay.
>>:
So how am I going to upgrade?
>>:
MJ will do that.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
We don't have any control over it.
So I have to get accounts to do it?
>> Ed Perkins: Well, he's got to do it for everybody.
decision do it.
>>:
Whenever they make the
So right now they're not doing it yet.
>> Lance McBride: It's like taking Ford Motor Company and upgrading from
Windows 95 to Windows NT.
>>:
It's impossible, many of the things you can't do.
>> Ed Perkins: It's possible that some of the plug-ins we use don't work on
four so they can't do that because there's too many things.
>> Lance McBride: Visitor maps -- sorry, I skipped one. User access manager,
again, this is what you can use to control access to different pages and so
forth.
>> Ed Perkins:
That's like that other one you mentioned.
>> Lance McBride: And visitor maps will tell you who's been online if you want
to. It's kind of fun if you got people visiting from all over the world, you
can show that to all the people visiting from all over the world. vTools, web
in a box feeds. So that's kind of -- I think that's going away. Most sites
don't even use web in a box.
>> Ed Perkins: Web in a box still has a way [indiscernible] unit is they show
you current officers so if you can use that, you can get the list
automatically. So you don't have so edit that page every year when things
change. It's just automatically updated.
>> Lance McBride: So widget logic allows you to use widgets on only certain
pages. So it's kind of -- if you only want like the promos for your site
showing up on your home page rather than on your products and every other page,
you could use that. The WordPress business plug-in, you can add facts,
testimonials, again, this is kind of a more of a business plug-in.
>> Ed Perkins:
[Indiscernible] you guys to do business may want to check that.
>> Lance McBride: The WordPress importer will import pages and posts from a
WordPress export file.
>> Ed Perkins: Moving your blog from one place to the other, you would export
it and then you could import it into another.
>> Lance McBride: The WordPress search engine optimization is the one I showed
you -- or no, that's not it.
>> Ed Perkins:
It doesn't say anything about the media that are supported.
>> Lance McBride: WordPress e-mail, you can recommend and send pages to other
people. RSS import allows you to import RSS feed.
>> Ed Perkins:
Yet another RSS import [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
Another WordPress table.
>> Ed Perkins:
That has been superseded by TablePress.
>> Lance McBride: The document revisions, obviously we don't have this
activated and we have the ability to control revisions so we really don't need
that anymore.
>> Ed Perkins: But if you're doing a real content management system for some
reason and you want to control that design.
>> Lance McBride: E-mail Google Maps yeah, don't really need the Google Maps.
These are all different pieces to that. Another mobile formatter. Security
log audit. So if you have problems with people maybe hacking your site, you
can install that and look at that and then another related post plug-in. So
another RSS feed. So that's it for plug-ins. The last -- yeah. No go ahead.
>>: The Volvo version, if we put activate, does that mean automatically
create ->> Lance McBride: It depends on the plug-ins. You saw there are multiple
different mobile versions. Remember, there was like that one and there was an
IOS one and there was another mobile one earlier so it depends on the plug-in
that you work with as whether it automatically does it or not. And I don't
know how good these are at formatting things for mobile devices either.
>>: So if you do -- you mentioned about your iPhones.
for the iPhone? Show us how that works?
Did you have one this
>> Lance McBride: Well, we don't use it, but like I said, I haven't activated
any of these yet because I'm not totally convinced that they work the way I
expect them to.
>>:
So you activate and then what will happen?
>> Lance McBride:
Well --
>>: Anybody with iPhone will get it?
other one?
Is it automatically switched to the
>> Lance McBride: Let's take a look at the plug-in and see what it does. But
if it's automatic, then, yes, that is correct. If it's not, you may have to
enable that for a page or a post. Or something along those lines.
>> Ed Perkins: If I'm using Chrome and I go to region six, I just get a list
of stuff. I don't get like that map that we have on the home page, that
content doesn't show up. I just get -- it says welcome and then I get the menu
items and then I get -- and then a bunch of various posts. Things like that.
>> Lance McBride: I think it's probably better suited to a site like this.
This is supposedly the site that is dealing with this which is interesting
because it doesn't actually show me what I'm looking for but ->> Ed Perkins: Actually what happens, if it's not compatible, you get a teenie
weenie version of the site.
>>:
Sideways.
>> Lance McBride: If it's a very graphical content oriented site, this is
probably a tool that you want to use. Because it's again, with IEEE, we're
providing information, not necessarily graphics. So it may not be as big of a
deal for us. We can still zoom in on the site and get the information we need.
So I wanted to show you the calendar, the Google calendar. Let's see if I can
find that here. Is this it? We've gone over that. So the Google calendars.
So you remember the all-in-one event calendar that I showed you earlier, if you
have a Google calendar setup, you can import the calendar. You can add content
on your calendar from another feed. So that's one way to do this. So there's
your meetings here data. So if you have multiple calendars, let's say you have
a business calendar and a personal calendar and you want all of that calendar
data to show up on your website, this is how you could combine those calendars
together and have them show up. So you add the RSS feeds, so here, under other
calendars, okay, and then you can click on the events. Brings up more details.
Where is that? And then using the Google calendar plug-in, then, you would
pull this calendar and you'd plug that into your website and that would bring
in all of your calendar data for multiple calendars. Does that make sense?
>>:
[Indiscernible].
Can you show an example of how that works?
>> Lance McBride: I'm going to say this. For IEEE sites, which is I think
what you're asking for, you wouldn't do it this way anymore. I don't do it
this way anymore. So in IEEE site, you would do what I showed you earlier
which is use the vTools feed that I see Ical or other feed, XML feed and you
plug that into the calendar feed for the all-in-one event calendar. That's the
way you want to do it now. But for people who aren't using IEEE calendars,
this is how you would do it to combine multiple calendars together. For
instance, people may use WordPress to collaborate. If you set up a WordPress
site correctly, you can have tasks created, you can have calendars, multiple
calendars combined. You could run a project through a WordPress site if you
had to. There's other better tools. I will say that. Like base camp is a
better one to use now. But that's an idea that you could combine multiple
calendars and see what everybody is up to and schedule things. Okay. That's
all I've got. Do we want to take a break? It's 3:00 o'clock and maybe come
back in ten minutes?
>>:
Okay.
>> Lance McBride: So this afternoon, we were going to go over, what do you
want us to go over? With that, I'm going to throw in a caveat, and that is
that if IEEE -- we're pretty much covered in terms of promotion. We need to
get our site out there to people who know that they exist which includes things
like putting the site on our business cards and site on our signatures or
e-mail signatures and things like that. But our search engines are already
found at IEEE.org. I'm on now. All right. So again, I want to go over kind
of how you get the word out that you're site exists. Because if nobody knows
your site is there, how with you going to do business? Especially as a
business which I think most everybody is trying to do, you want to make sure
that people know it exists. So the first thing I would do is go to Google and
I would submit that site to Google. So as the website owner, you can submit
that website. Add your URL. So what had that do? Well, it puts that site
into Google's list of domains to go out and send their spider bots out there
and search your site and find all the content.
>>: I'm sorry I missed the very first part of this.
Google to do this.
You actually went to
>> Lance McBride: Yes. So on Google, it's submit your content. Very
important site. If you think about how many users use Google versus any other
search engine, this is the place to start. From here, you can go to Yahoo and
you can go to Bing and you can go to the other search engines but Google is by
and far the largest search engine out there. Make sure that your site is up
there. Now, this won't happen instantly. Once you submit your site, it does
take a little while for the Google bot to go out and find your site and index
it. But it does happen. So start there.
>> Ed Perkins:
I think that's what some of the SEO plug-ins do for WordPress.
>> Lance McBride:
Yes.
I don't know if they actually submit your site or not.
>> Ed Perkins: I think the SEO by Yost does something about indexing but we'd
have to look at documentation and find out if it does that.
>> Lance McBride: So if it does, that's great. If it doesn't, now you know
how to do this. So the other things are on map blast, things like that, if you
have a brick and mortar company that happens to have a website, you also want
to make sure that your listing on the map blast and things like that, Google
Maps, that those link to your website as well. So you can take control of your
brick and mortar pin on Google and add information like your business hours,
your website, your contact, your phone information, things like that. You want
to do that as well. Does that make sense?
>>:
So the second one [indiscernible], how that works.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
I don't know.
I never used it.
Let's see what it does.
Okay.
>> Lance McBride:
So this allows to you plug in it looks like some --
>> Ed Perkins: I think that's like the SEO plug-ins will take care of that for
you. So that's one of their functions.
>> Lance McBride: This little description right in here, this is the
description that you plug into the search engine optimization in WordPress.
There's some other stuff here too, but we've got plug your site into Google,
plug your site into the maps, local Yellow Pages. Believe it or not, people
still use things like Yellow Pages.com. Yeah.
>>: Suppose you’re not quite brick and mortar. Like you have a PO box. You
still -- like your intellectual property but you won't have a physical locates.
>> Lance McBride: I would still get on there if you can. Typically, let's
see, I think they pull that data from the county or the state or the -- not the
state, the business license. So if you have a business license, it's going to
end up there eventually. That business is going to end up attached to whatever
address you used on the business license.
>>:
NASDAQ?
Same as the stock?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
You said go to Google and then you said go to --
>> Lance McBride: Like map blast or MapQuest. Yeah. Plug that in. So those
two, those are going to look at the business. So how do we do this? I'll try
my wife's business here. That's a good example. So here, she's got a listing
here under -- I don't know what this is. That's Google Maps. Maybe because
I'm searching in Google. So if I pull up this, she doesn't have her website
listed here. But I pull this up. I can see it better balanced healing. I can
also see that it's an old address. So if this was me, if this was my business,
I would edit this business and how do I do that? Where did I do that? You can
take ownership of this listing. It's been a while since I've done this. I'm
sorry. First to review. Here you can edit the details. Looks like I might be
able to change the address. So I can correct the data that Google has in here.
Do that. Make sure you've got that. I can add a website. That's another
critical piece. If you wanted to add a note or anything else.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Scary, isn't it?
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride: So I think what they're going to do here is when I submit
all this, it used to be that they would require like a postcard get sent to
this address. And to activate the information changes that I've just made.
There's a pin number on that postcard. So there is some security here, or
there was. I don't know. This is a different -- I will say this is a
different interface than when I owned my business when I was doing this type of
thing. But yeah. You can make the changes. It doesn't necessarily mean
they're going to apply.
>> Lance McBride:
Because otherwise they can send this to somebody else.
>> Lance McBride:
Exactly.
>>:
Other the phone number is completely [indiscernible] of some sort.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So but the point here is -- the take away is that you
want to -- anywhere your business shows up on the web, you want to make sure
that information is accurate. And you want to make sure it's up to date. So
just -- I mean, you can search in Google. That's one place to start. And then
start working the other search engines. Yahoo, Bing. I don't know what else
people use. Ask.com. Is that still used? Altavista is gone.
>> Ed Perkins:
That bought by somebody?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Who bought that?
I think Yahoo bought Altavista.
That was deck's search engine.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. So those are some ways to promote your business.
Pick up a book. There's a good book called gorilla marketing. I think if
you're a sole proprietorship or small one person company, you have to take the
most advantage you can get out of the cheapest marketing you can get. These
are free ways to get your site going.
>> Ed Perkins:
going on.
I had a -- I didn't hit enter.
>> Lance McBride:
I was wondering why nothing was
Switch to your computer?
>> Ed Perkins: Well, I can do that. I was trying to find a -- so what I
discovered, I said, okay, let's go to a site that we have that we're using the
SEO plug-in and see if we can find out and Google and see what's in Google,
what's coming from. SEO plug-in.
>> Lance McBride: While Ed's looking that up, is there anything this afternoon
that you'd like us to go over that we haven't talked about already? Especially
as relation to WordPress. I'd be glad to discuss your personal lives, but
probably not. I'm not the best.
>>: [Indiscernible] I tried very hard to put up photos. [Indiscernible].
you do a little demo so we know how to put the photos up?
>> Lance McBride: Can we do that tomorrow as part of the lab?
that as part of the lab.
>>:
That's fine.
>>:
On the website it said something about Excel.
>>:
Yeah.
I'd rather do
The database.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Can
Yeah.
So uploading Excel files and things like that?
Right.
>>: I'm not sure exactly what it was about.
websites.
I thought you could do stuff with
>> Ed Perkins: In WordPress you're not directly going to do anything with the
database per se. Although WordPress is using a database and it's not a
database tool.
>> Lance McBride: What aspect of Excel are you asking about? Did you want
to -- because you can take an Excel file and you can upload it as media and
have a link to that file. You can take the tables and copy and paste those
into a WordPress page.
>> Ed Perkins: Or you can use TablePress and upload your Excel file and put it
on to -- it's not like Google docs. You're not going to be able to go in and
do any editing.
>>: I have a question about this. People sign in, for example, want to sign
in as a member. And we want to catch that in the database. Right? So how
does that work? For example, I have this organization right now. And we want
to interest people who want to join this activity as a member. So we have a
form if you can show us we can load the form that they're building and how is
that going to be captured in terms of on the website. So as the web owners
then you can see who has signed up and give them the right so that they can put
in there passwords so next time they can sign in.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
You're asking a lot.
Those are the things we need to do.
That's a loaded question.
I'm just wondering --
>> Ed Perkins: So what I did, looking at the SEO issue, so we have this web
page on this site about press releases and we have this PDF here. So that's
key. And then down in the SEO entries, so this is the snippet preview. And
then there's a focus keywords and the SEO title and says there's too many
characters but we didn't make that up. The plug-in made that up so I'm not
going to worry about it. I went over and Googled JCC 2015 press release. So
there is the PDF. And then it says [indiscernible] steering committee
announced. So if I go back over here and it says -- let's go back to the text.
It says today the steering committee announced. So Google was pulling stuff
out of our page and putting that in the preview.
>> Lance McBride: So you can override that by adding the description.
changing the meta description in the bottom.
>> Ed Perkins:
Maybe that's it.
So
Because there's a meta description.
>> Lance McBride: Right there. So that description, if you put something into
that, that's what will show up as the snippet under the Google link.
>> Ed Perkins: Okay. So right now it says issues call for papers. Which is
probably not bad. But and then the steering committee, so basically it took
the first sentence of the content on the page and put that in there as well.
>> Lance McBride:
That's what it will do by default.
>> Ed Perkins: So I thought this was good because we got something we could
actually search that we can relate to a site that we've got and we can look at
it and see what it did.
>> Lance McBride: I'm going to erase this. So Sharee, let's go back and talk
about your requirements there. So you want to have the user fill out a form.
>> Sharee:
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride: Actually I'm going to change that. Fill out a form and that
form you want to have go on to the WordPress site. And you'd like it to go
into the WordPress database.
>> Sharee: Right, name, e-mail addresses, whatever we build in, right?
anything else.
>> Ed Perkins:
We can --
>> Lance McBride:
hackathon page?
>> Sharee:
For
Do you want it to use the user access management to access a
Right.
>> Lance McBride:
Right?
Is that about what we're asking?
>> Sharee: I wanted to first when people upload their form request to be
members, I will be able to send an e-mail back to -- like what do we do? They
will send the e-mail back to you to validate your address and then can sign in
as password and then next time they can go in to do whatever on the page. On
the website.
>> Ed Perkins:
So here's the --
>> Sharee: Maybe use the management kind of things. Because we need to have
people sign up as members. And that happened to almost all the organization
needs to do that.
>> Ed Perkins: So here's a site and we have all these contact forms and I
turned on the contact form database.
>> Sharee:
Okay.
So just give this --
>> Ed Perkins: I'm not sure why we turned it on, so I go there and I select a
form. So let's say sign up for the mailing list. And it's going to show me
that I have 218 entries on the database, right?
>> Sharee:
Right.
>> Ed Perkins: Okay. I'm waiting for -- I don't know what it's doing here.
Script on this page. Okay. I don't know what that did. That did something
with it. But anyway, so I got a bunch of headers here so you can do things.
And so what I can do is delete all these records. I can remove. I can take
columns out of it. Or I can export all the data out.
>> Sharee:
Okay.
Good.
>> Ed Perkins: Into a spreadsheet. So what it's done is taken -- let's cancel
it. So what I've got here is this was a form to sign up, so the guy's name and
his e-mail. And so I got the date of everybody who's signed up for whenever.
And then these are the -- some stuff about the CAPTCHA. So I can go up and say
get hid of all this CAPTCHA stuff.
>> Sharee:
So all of this is under contact form database.
>> Lance McBride:
This is the contact form database.
>> Ed Perkins: So the contact form that I showed you, so if I want to look
for -- that was signing in for the mailing list. We get a lot of activity on
signing for the mailing list. Let's say we want contact us and see -- so we
have 92 people who sent e-mail saying they want to contact us in some way and
here's their message basically over here was the message that they sent. So
all of the fields from the form end up in this database.
>> Lance McBride: So the problem is that, yes, the data goes into the database
but the only way to get the data out of the database is that interface.
>> Ed Perkins:
database.
>> Sharee:
Right.
So the only way -- but you can print it out?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Sharee:
Because there's a plug-in that's putting data into the
You can export it.
And is there a way like can you click to send the e-mail back?
>> Ed Perkins:
No.
>> Lance McBride: No. Not from this interface. You can export and download
the data, get those e-mail addresses from that exported data. Maybe plug those
into some kind of WordPress -- not WordPress.
>> Sharee: Like for example, the WordPress site we just sign in, right? And
we choose -- which sign in and they send an e-mail to validate to our e-mail
address. Can that be automated?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>> Sharee:
The short answer is no.
Well, there are plug-ins --
Usually get response like in a second.
>> Ed Perkins: So here's a query from somebody who wants to do just what you
said. Looking for a simple plug-in. Store update manage and publish contact
list of various pages. So there's WordPress is a contact manager. That's from
seven years ago. So it's not some of the issues you go into this thing and
answer the question some seven years ago, oh, that's like forever. That's like
Roman times in the Internet. You know. So is any of that current?
>> Lance McBride: So there's plug-ins that you can use to do bits and pieces
of this. Like you can use the contact form seven to generate the e-mail that
would go back to the individual. You can do that. And there's the contact
form seven database that stores the data in the database and there's the user
access manager to control access to the pages. But there's no good link from
these to this. Right? So what you have to do, what I'm going to recommend you
do, is get the data into the database, have them -- boy, this is kind of tricky
because you're talking about people's user names and passwords. So you don't
want -- anything that goes into this database is going to be clear text.
Right? So you don't really want them to enter a real user name and password,
one that they would use on a normal basis. I wouldn't. You could do that but
I wouldn't do that. But have them create a user name and password to access
your site. And then you can upload that information into user access manager.
>> Sharee:
So where do I to use the access --
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
That's another plug-in.
We have that available.
>> Sharee:
Take a look on that one to see how that works?
>> Ed Perkins: Well, that lets you, when you have an account on the system,
when you log in, it lets you access different stuff. Restricts access to
content.
>> Lance McBride: There's one that we have though that restricts access to
pages. I can't remember what it's called. I thought it was user access
manager. There's one that restricts access to pages within the site. And
that's what you'd use in this case to restrict access to the hackathon pages.
The validation aspect is again going to be manual. You can automate -- I think
you can automate the contact form to the automatic reply. So they would enter
their data and yeah, they would get an e-mail back. You could do that. And
you could have a validation thing in that that says, you know, maybe click this
and it would again create another form that would automatically e-mail you to
know that they validated that address but again, that doesn't go into the
database. And so you'd have to somehow sort between the e-mails that you're
getting, the automatic responses there and the data that you have in the
database to confirm that you have a valid user and then create the user access.
>>: So is there a way like we can send out e-mails through the database
directly.
>> Lance McBride: No. What you saw was what you got on the database.
export and you have view.
You can
>> Ed Perkins: It sends e-mail to -- it sends what somebody submits to an
e-mail address in your database. So yeah, you're not going to get WordPress
become a list served. There are plug-ins that will take stuff and send it to
an external application, do the List Serve stuff but, yeah.
>>: How does the list server work? So we have to send our e-mails to New
Jersey for them to send it out to ->> Ed Perkins: No, no, no. What Sharee was talking about, there's a software
called List Serve. And once you set up a list, you just send an e-mail out to
an address and the address goes to the List Serve and looks at all the people
on your list and sends the e-mail immediately, within --
>>:
Can I reply to --
>> Ed Perkins: Well, if you don't configure it right, anybody can send to the
list so people who reply to the list and then you get this issue where -because I don't think the list was set up as a newsletter type list. It was
set up as anybody could send anything. So if somebody replies, why am I
getting this, and it replies to all, and then stop sending me this stuff. It's
war.
>>: If you see some of the e-mails that you do get, you try to reply to it, it
says no reply, does that go back to somebody, like it bounce ->> Ed Perkins: Probably just goes nowhere.
e-mail address.
It's coming from a non-existent
>> Sharee: What happens is own the owner's site they have settings. And so
there are some kind of serve they want people in discussion groups. So like
they want people to reply all but in some of them, like big newsletter kinds of
things, it need to set up all the reply to the owner. And so that's a
situation which -- not that time it was a choice. Looking at that choice. So
the point is [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Is there any time that you actually just sends it to the
list server? Is there any time you can take up an e-mail and send it to ->>: Yeah, if you were the owner or if it's set up like a forum, like people
can reply to all.
>> Lance McBride: Because I talked to max and he said all his e-mails come
from corporate. The second one you send [indiscernible].
>> Sharee:
That's an E notice.
>> Lance McBride:
E blast?
>>: No. That's an E notice.
headquarters.
>> Lance McBride:
All right.
That's a different type that comes from
>> Ed Perkins: So this is List Serve. You got all these different lists.
These are all the ones that over the years, Oregon section, GHTC,
[indiscernible] technology council. So let's say we have -- this is like the
program committee. Why didn't it select it? Let's try that. Okay. There.
It's a little slow. All right. So let me go to the wizard.
>> Sharee:
You have to be permit by the headquarters.
>> Ed Perkins: You send in a request and you have to get a staff contact and
here you are and all that and they'll set up a list server for you.
>>: So you can't just export an Excel file, the thing that you are
exporting ->> Ed Perkins: Well, you can do that. Let me go here. What you have is you
have, these are all of the parameters so you have access control. I don't
think I clicked -- try that again. So access control so you can have
attachments and no attachments and you can say send session, so who can send to
this without getting asked for authorization. What will happen is you send
something to it and whoever owns the list will get a message, message has been
submitted, click here to approve the message kind of a deal. And then so all
these different -- somewhere in here is the -- maybe security. I don't think
it's under security. It says what kind of list you have. That's what I get
for trying to check this out in realtime. It may be back under access control.
There's a thing where you can make a newsletter type ->> Lance McBride:
You can see why this was so easy to set up.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. But anyway. Go down to subscription. Maybe it's under
subscriptions. No. All right. Anyway. I don't know. I'd have to look
through to find the right property. So basically let's go here to subscribers
manager. That's the easiest thing to do. So what you can do is you can look
at everybody who's in the list. This is the program committee. So there's
like 19 people. So you can set your list up. And then you can find
somebody -- so what you can do is do single subscriber or bulk operation. So
if you have a text file, like the tab in under something like that, there's a
format that you need to use. The format is basically e-mail space name.
>>:
So you can just copy paste all of those from the Excel?
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
And import it.
>> Ed Perkins: Or you just export it. Take an Excel file and export it as
text. Put the e-mail first. And there's names. Then you can add, you can
replace the list and add the new file. Then you just upload the file. And
then there's the list. And now you can send -- now, what he noticed is for IT
people, I found out the other day, John, he told me this, is he actually uses
List Serve but he uses this -- the staff has them set up. So that's why it's
manual because they get the list and they upload the new list in and they send
the thing out so it takes them -- they have to get the names and they have to
upload it and it takes them a while do that. It's not an automated thing. So
this is the other kind of thing that's available. There's some free services
around I think that you can do this. If you have under 200 people and you only
send two messages a months or something, you get free lists.
>> Lance McBride: From a client building perspective if you have clients and
you want to send something like this out, there's online services that will do
that as well.
>> Sharee: It's a pretty expensive -- if you send two notice a month, but we
have 4000 members, I send it out and everyone is in charge of $260 and
sometimes we don't use it.
>> Ed Perkins:
>> Sharee:
You can use the IEEE.
Where this one is free.
>> Ed Perkins: Right. Now some people have contact managers and those are
designed so you can send e-mail out from the contact managers.
>>: If you copy paste of whole row with all the e-mail addresses though, it
just copies it as text and you can paste it.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
This doesn't have paste.
This was written years ago.
But if you actually did want to send an e-mail to all those people.
>> Ed Perkins: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can just paste it into your e-mail
thing from the thing and do it manually. As long as you don't have 5000, yeah,
things or whatever.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Some ISPs will restrict that as well.
You can only send 50 at a time or something like that.
>> Lance McBride:
with.
>> Sharee:
Yeah.
I think constant contact is another good company to work
It's expensive.
>> Lance McBride:
perspective.
It's expensive, yeah, but it's a nice one from a marketing
>> Sharee: They depend on how many contact you have on your database.
charge by numbers.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah.
would like us to cover?
Anybody else have any questions?
They
Anything that you
>>: First time I went to the page, it asked me to enter a URL, I guess a name
for a website. And I put in dot WebPress. Does that mean that I could
actually enter a different, a non-WebPress, and it would actually get started
with this setup?
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. Let's say you had companyone.com and you owned that
name. You could enter companyone.WordPress.com and it would create a
companyone.WordPress.com site for you.
>>: I would still use the WordPress.com.
to use a tool but not the --
What about the scenario where I want
>> Sharee: In the beginning, you have this like company one WordPress.com.
Underneath then they say you can buy the registration fee. Like $15, $25, if
you click on this, then they go to register for the worldwide web. And so that
will be WordPress. But that way will take a little while to get it. Can be a
few days. So first work on your WordPress.com and later transfer it to that.
>>:
[Indiscernible], how do I go about that?
>> Lance McBride: I would back up your website, first thing I'd do, and then
enter it like she's saying, so enter the site, dot WordPress.com and then pick
I'm going to buy the site.com and then it would transfer that domain over to
WordPress. At that point, though, it doesn't transfer the content. So at that
point you're going to have to build that content back up from the backup that
you created. So that's where the static to WordPress concept kind of breaks
down. However, if you -- if you view backup in like Internet Explorer, you
copy all of that content and paste it into your WordPress site, it does a
pretty good job of taking that and just plugging it in.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. I've done that and I had an HTML site and I was doing
WordPress so I would just go into the browser and control A the page and pasted
it in and it worked pretty well.
>> Lance McBride:
pretty good job.
>>:
It even takes the media like the image files and does a
How do you do that?
>> Lance McBride: So you take the site, like you go to your backup file and
you find it indexed on HTML. You double click on it, bring it up on your web
browser on your computer and you just in the page get control A, that selects
everything. Hit control C, copies it. And it goes into your WordPress page
that you're creating and hit control V and it will paste it in there.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
doesn't work.
Right, or you come in here and you do -- control -- control A
>> Lance McBride: It doesn't think in terms of HTML.
I think it's -- what's the Microsoft term for it?
>> Ed Perkins:
It thinks in terms of --
Oh, rich text.
>> Lance McBride: Yeah. Rich text. And what's the graphical term for their
stuff. Meta files or something like that. It takes it and just pastes that,
translates it into what WordPress needs.
>> Sharee:
Paste the actual page, not the source code.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
That's correct.
You can also do things like this.
>> Lance McBride:
WordPress.
I was trying to --
You would view the rendered copy of the rendered page into
>> Ed Perkins: Right, or you just go on a website like this, copy this thing,
paste it, go into the other and paste it in. It will come in pretty good. You
might have to adjust some of the spacing and paragraph spacing and stuff like
that. But you can just paste stuff in pretty much and maybe it will clean up
and that will work. I can even go here and ->> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
But back it up before you start.
Yeah.
Somebody could make a new post.
>>: If we see a site that we like, how do we figure out how we did it?
there a way we can reverse engineer it or something?
>> Lance McBride:
Is
He is the master reverse engineerer, I think.
>> Ed Perkins: Okay. So here is -- see here's that page I just cut and pasted
it. Right? The only thing is now this image is probably -- it's got a link so
if I went into text mode, and went down here somewhere.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
You passed it.
No that was the top.
>> Lance McBride:
Okay.
So where is the image?
I think it's up at the top.
>> Ed Perkins: Oh, there's the image still has the URL are where it came from.
In this case it just made a post in the same site. So the image well -- it's
not the Internet so it's from someplace on the Internet so it will just copy
the link over. So you'd have to like save the image and import it into your
WordPress media if you wanted to really make it be there. When you delete the
original, it will be gone. So it's really easy to do that. And notice that
it's given me a number for the post because I didn't put a title in before I
pasted some content in. So now, so I have to go in here and I would need to
change this to something that made sense, like you know, announcing -- it
doesn't like spaces.
>> Lance McBride:
Well, most URLs don't like spaces.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. And then boom. Okay. So now it's got a real title. If
I put -- scroll up. If I put in here announcing sustag and then pasted it in,
then I wouldn't have 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever it was there. I'd have the text in
there. So they just reinforced that comment that I made earlier. So I'm not
saving this thing. Go back look at the site. Leave the page. Boom.
>>:
How do you delete the post that you created?
>> Ed Perkins: I didn't save it. So I may go back and there may be some
draft. That's a good question. So let's see what happens if I did that.
Let's go back to the dashboard.
>> Lance McBride:
If you don't do anything, it doesn't do anything.
>> Ed Perkins: But I'm just double checking. We'll verify it. So there
should not be any -- see, there's no title but it did save as a draft. So what
I would do then is I would trash this.
>> Lance McBride:
page?
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Did it ask you if you wanted to navigate away from that
Interesting.
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
And I said yes.
I think when I changed the URL it might have saved it.
Oh, that's right.
>> Ed Perkins: So I would just trash this thing.
it's been put in trash.
>> Lance McBride:
Any other questions?
And eventually, poof, so
>>:
We talk about the registration [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
And I can see how many people sign up right on the website?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
You have to export the data out of the database for that
I could do that.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yes.
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
form.
>>:
Yes.
Yeah.
You could.
So that was save [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride: Absolutely. It helps and you don't have to set up vTools,
you could do that as well, but it's more complicated.
>>:
This is much easier.
>> Ed Perkins: I have a question.
play a YouTube video tomorrow ->> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
If we were going to
How to get the audio?
Is this the audio?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Logistical question.
Yeah.
Try it.
[Indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
Just try playing it.
>> Ed Perkins: Just try playing it, all right.
speakers on this thing so let me see --
I don't know if I have my
>> Lance McBride:
Oh, great.
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your site. Give your database a name. I will call mine WD press and click
create database. Once you see the screen letting you know your database was
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can make this what you want but I'm going to use WD press again and then I'm
going to generate an extreme password for excellent security. This is not the
pardon you will be using to log into your WordPress account. This is the
password WordPress will be using to communicate with your database. So make
sure this is secure. Then click the create user button. Copy the password
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following steps. Then click go back. Finally, scroll to the add user to
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Check the all privileges box and save your changes. Then you should get in
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We're now ready to install WordPress. Navigate to the public HTML folder from
your FTP browser or the file manager and C panel. I'm installing WordPress to
my primary domain but if you were using an add-on or a subdomain, you will need
to locate the directory folder for that domain. This is the cyber duck
interface and I've navigated to public HTML. Now, upload the files from the
WordPress folder on your desktop into the public HTML directory. Once these
files have loaded, open a new tab and type in your domain name. A page should
appear letting you know that WordPress needs a WP config file to run. Click
the create a configuration file button and you will be taken to a WordPress
greeting giving you a quick explanation of what is needed to configure
WordPress to point to your database. Click let's go at the bottom of the page.
On this page, enter the database name where it says WordPress. Remember to
enter the section provided before the underscore. Then enter the user name you
created. Be sure and include the full user name again including the part that
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engines like Google to make your site discoverable right away. You may want to
uncheck this and initiate indexing in your WordPress dashboard after you build
your site. Then click install WordPress. When you receive the success
message, WordPress has completed. You can type your website name into the
browser and you should see the default WordPress theme. Congratulations. You
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information on WordPress multisite and buddy press, be sure and visit
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>> Lance McBride:
Sounds easy, doesn't it.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. That's if you're doing a simple site, just one blog, not
a multisite thing, which probably you guys won't need to do. One little thing
is the database password information is all stored in a WP config file which is
on your -- this is replaying. This guy is going to go on for an hour. I don't
think we want to have this guy go on for an hour. So this is how to make -- so
this is after you've done the install, you listen to this for an hour, how to
make an amazing website. So there's lots of videos on YouTube. Here's make a
business website, a beautiful website. How to create a logo. How to make a
blog. So there's just, you know, lots of stuff. Some of these videos, as you
know, the guy goes, oh, it's time to click here, it's done, click here, it's
done and then so five minutes you go through and you see the thing but it may
not take you five minutes of clock time to do that because you -- you know.
But he's got the basic steps that you need to do there. And that is produced
by one of the WPMU dev who are very associated with the WordPress people. You
know what I mean?
>> Lance McBride: People were asking about the plug-ins on the WordPress.com
and so here's what I found, if you haven't looked that up. What they say is
that they have installed the most popular plug-in so that's why there's no
plug-ins tab on the dashboard. So these are all the plug-ins that they have
installed.
>> Ed Perkins: And then they've also figured out that these all work together
and there's no weird interactions and permutations and combinations because I
think if they had people doing that, well, I installed this theme and I got
this plug-in and there's some permutation that they didn't -- now they know
they're not going to have any support problems when they got millions of users,
they don't want to have any support issues.
>> Lance McBride: So you can also request a plug-in if you would like to but
until they get with what is it? 90 million users, until they get probably at
least 1 million requests, they're probably not going to install the plug-in but
they do have ->> Ed Perkins:
There's a list of some optional.
>> Lance McBride: Some optional plug-ins.
Community plug ins.
>> Ed Perkins:
development.
Google Analytics.
>> Lance McBride:
So here's the enterprise version.
They do some other stuff.
And some
There's a few more here.
>>: So these are like the different plug-ins which IEEE sites would have
access to?
>> Lance McBride:
No, these are WordPress.com.
>> Ed Perkins: If you pay them money, or they're free, you get to have some
extra things that you could use.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
it.
>>:
I think it's --
I have it up here.
I have my WordPress.com site if you want
The free website is just the blogging website.
>>: If you're hosting WebPress like on your own or like not using the
WordPress.com, [indiscernible]?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
You have to.
Because WordPress doesn't come with anything.
So you can put whatever you want --
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Yes.
It comes with 2014 or whatever, and that's about it.
But then you don't have to pay but then you can put whatever you --
>> Ed Perkins:
Right.
>> Lance McBride:
You have your ISP hosting the WordPress installation.
>> Ed Perkins: Right. You have to pick which of the 3000 themes and the
30,000 plug-ins combinations that you want. That's all.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
Yes, sir?
>>: I may have missed that part. If I'm an IEEE member but not part of the
organization per se, do I have access to all this site? Is that what you said?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
blogs.
That is interesting.
I don't know.
I don't think we have individual blogs.
We have organizational
>> Lance McBride: Do we have anything through Google though?
those Google accounts.
Now we've got
>> Ed Perkins: I don't know. I know we have Google docs or whatever that new
thing is. Google drive. Whatever they call it now. And I don't know if
there's blogs in that or not. I really don't know. Let me go check here. I'm
logged into my Google.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
That's Google plus.
And Lance, we get the IEEE themes.
>> Lance McBride:
can ->>:
You tell Ed and he goes and finds it.
The IEEE themes so you would send the e-mail to Kahn or I
[Indiscernible] and then we send it to Kahn and he'll send us --
>> Ed Perkins: Interesting. I have no idea what this means. I went to sites.
And it showed me something. But it says there's no sites. So I don't know
what this means. I'm not a -- I don't know a lot about Google. I went to
Google sites and it tells me there's no sites. But there's sites in IEEE okay.
So I think the answer is on Google, you can't do it either with IEEE.
>>:
That was -- yeah, that was debugged.
>> Lance McBride: You can get a personal e-mail address.
do have so hold on a second.
>> Ed Perkins:
I don't think you can make a website.
>> Lance McBride:
into it.
No, that's not access.
It does look like we
I don't know.
I kind of doubt it but we'll dig
>> Ed Perkins: Right, because you get Google drive. Google drive, Google
docs. I know what sheets are. You get calendar. And you get Google plus.
>> Lance McBride:
Doesn't look like it.
>> Ed Perkins: I think you can also do hangouts. I've never figured out how
to do hangouts. I'm sure it's relatively simple once you've done it the first
time. Like installing WordPress, once you figure it out, it's not that big.
>>: Do you know any good contractors for eCommerce? I just don't think I can
hack this kind of thing. I probably have to hire people.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
There are people who will create WordPress sites for you.
ECommerce, good contractors, do you know them?
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. I know a guy in Portland but you probably want somebody
in Seattle. I know a guy in Portland who does it. I don't know if he does
eCommerce or not but I know he does stuff with WordPress.
>>: I don't mind working with people long distance.
face.
>> Ed Perkins:
So this is Google plus.
I don't have to see their
But I don't see anything else in here.
>> Lance McBride: I don't have a good reference for you unfortunately.
would go to Elance.
>>:
Can you spell that out for me?
I
Elance.
>> Lance McBride: E-L-A-N-C-E. It's pretty easy to use. I've done some work
as a contractor through there. I haven't -- I've never hired anybody through
there but I would imagine it's probably as simple as doing a contractor. They
take a little bit off the top for the price, the fee that goes through. But
it's worth it. All of the job, it's kind of like eBay. You get reviews on
jobs that you work on and probably as a contractor or as a employer, you'd
probably get reviews too. I think I reviewed my employer.
>>:
So what do you think about wicks.com.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
That's the site that my wife used.
So is that the same as WordPress?
>> Lance McBride:
I would say it's very comparable.
Yeah.
>>:
You probably have to pay money too.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
No, I believe that's a free site.
It's a free site.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
>>:
And it's honestly much easier to use than WordPress.
>>:
Why are we using WordPress?
>>: WordPress was the first. I think it's got some great plug-ins. Wicks
doesn't have all the functionalities. It's all basic. I used it to bring my
online portfolio so for that it works.
>> Lance McBride: I know when my wife was interested in setting something up,
she asked other business owners what they used and that's the one that came up
and it's mostly because it's free.
>>: It's a recent site builder. I think earlier there was [indiscernible] and
before that there was four square. But wicks is now the current winner of the
season.
>>:
[Indiscernible].
>>:
No.
>>: One of the things you're asking questions about, business website, you can
go to web.com and they have -- they can even build website for you free but you
have to use them to host your website and they do build all those business
things in like taking credit cards.
>>:
Web.com.
>>: Yeah. Try it and see. Just call them up and ask them what they can do
for you and they will take you but you need -- they will build a website for
you that way.
>> Lance McBride:
That's great.
>>: [Indiscernible] Google.
comparable?
I used to use that in a few cases.
>> Lance McBride: I never used sites.Google, no.
know anything about sites Google?
>> Ed Perkins:
Ed, do you
I know nothing about it.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Never tried it.
Are they
I haven't used it.
Let's look it up.
Sites.Google.
>> Lance McBride: Any other questions? Is there anything that you wanted to
hear out of this today that you haven't heard?
>>: It said like shopping cart linked with Excel accounting database and
stuff.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
I don't know.
>> Ed Perkins:
Okay.
That's a plug-in on our IEEE.
It was just like in the content for the workshop.
Oh, shopping cart.
>> Lance McBride: That was so the shopping cart plug-in is really what you
would want to use there, and that's the Pay Pal and Amazon plug-ins that I
mentioned.
>> Ed Perkins:
So I typed in shopping cart and it comes up with a pizza.
>> Lance McBride:
Pizza.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. I don't know why. Let me try shopping space cart.
Maybe we'll get a different result. Pay Pal shopping cart. WordPress shopping
cart. Cart press.
>>:
So tomorrow we would have to buy the site.
Tomorrow morning.
>> Lance McBride: You can do that. We also have several sites that we have
set up as IEEE sites that you can play around with and we only have a few.
>> Ed Perkins: We have
something like that and
activate plug-ins. You
can do some other stuff
itself.
>>:
like five. Five sites so you might have to do teams or
look at stuff but at least in there you can install,
can't install them but you can activate plug-ins. You
that you wouldn't be able to do on WordPress site
Do you know if it's possible to set up a web API?
>> Ed Perkins:
Get data back.
WordPress, yeah.
>> Lance McBride: That's a good question, probably RSS feeds. Maybe are
probably the best thing but there has to be something. I don't know for sure.
>> Ed Perkins: Well, they have a plug-in to Google for fonts.
don't -- there's invoices and billing but --
But they
>> Lance McBride: I would look in the developer section on the WordPress.org
site and see if there's something there.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. There's a thing called WOO commerce which is a thing
that they have that does -- I think -- I'm sure WOO commerce is some kind of -it might be associated with WordPress. I don't know.
>>:
Can you say a bit about that JSON API user?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
The circle one.
Go down.
User registration authentication and any other user data.
Do you know what restful is?
>> Lance McBride:
No.
>> Ed Perkins: I think it's some kind of new web-based thing. I'm not sure.
I've heard the buzzword. Yeah. WordPress is not really a realtime system so
you wouldn't have it running then pulling data in like that. I don't think.
>> Lance McBride:
Don't know.
>> Ed Perkins: I don't know. Because it's a content management. When you go
to the thing it renders stuff so there's nothing -- something's only going on
when somebody is actively ->> Lance McBride: Yeah. But from an NAPI perspective, they might have
something that you could run in a piece of software and pull data from it.
>> Ed Perkins:
Where's the code X.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
I don't know.
>> Lance McBride:
Yeah.
There may be something.
There is the codex.
Any other questions?
>>: There's a place to drop papers in.
for a little bit?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
New system.
Can you talk about that
You're talking about the IEEE stuff?
Yeah, like the GHTC.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
I got to search.
That's an Ed question.
Can you say a little bit about [indiscernible], how it works.
>> Lance McBride:
The papers.
>>: So if you are a company, a business, if you wanted to pull abstracts from
people, would this be like a Dropbox or something? What would that be like?
>> Ed Perkins: Good question. Well, you'd have to use one of those upload
functions, let people upload thing.
>>:
Is that what Robin is doing now?
>> Ed Perkins: You can create a contact for them. You can let somebody make
an attachment to the contact form so they can mail you -- you can go in. Let's
go -- where is DHTC. Let's go -- yeah. Let's -- yeah, let's look at DHTC.
>> Lance McBride:
provided.
>> Ed Perkins:
But we have here a --
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
The contact form just sends it to whatever e-mail address is
I haven't been involved with DHTC so I'm not sure.
Let's look at this one here.
It could be another conference.
What do you guys use?
>> Ed Perkins: We usually use a paper management system that's designed to do
that. We're using eDesk.
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Yeah, we're using eDesk.
What does eDesk do?
>> Ed Perkins:
want to do?
>>:
The latest papers I submitted by e-mail.
No, no.
Let's see.
Do you have to install the plug-in or widget?
It's a standalone web thing.
Let's see.
What did we
[Indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins:
contact form.
We have a contact form that does this stuff.
>> Lance McBride:
Okay.
This is a
I'm sorry, what was the question again?
>>: [Indiscernible] has been used in a [indiscernible] for many, many years
now.
>> Ed Perkins: It handles reviews and the whole -- it's a very -- if you're
trying to do something simple, [indiscernible]. Yeah. This is a contact form
that has a file attachment. So this is we're asking people about do they have
a story that they want to send in so they can type it in. They can have a
photo. And so down here, there's a code that we got from the generating a tag
up here. So you pick on something like you wanted -- [indiscernible]. A file
upload. And it says here you put this in the form. So yeah. So there's the
file. Please attach the file. And then you go down to the e-mail and in the
e-mail, you put the name of the attachment. File, file. So in that has it.
>> Lance McBride: So it just, real quick, don't miss this part right here.
there's two different things that you have to put in there. This is also
important on the CAPTCHA codes so if you notice, there's a CAPTCHAK and a
CAPCHAIR. So just make sure you follow the instructions for whatever you
generate on that contact form.
So
>> Ed Perkins: Right. Right. Because we could go down, some people look at
the CAPTCHA see, there's two different kinds so you pick which one you want.
So if you have a couple of them active, so I think we were using that one so
that one has the -- yeah. So this first one is the image so it's going to
display something you're supposed to type in text and then the other one is the
input field.
>>:
It's a wedge for this one or form seven.
>> Lance McBride:
That's contact form seven.
>>: Form seven, yeah. Yeah. Contact form seven. One of the things I was
Googling around, that's the most popular plug-in. It's got over like 19
million people downloaded it. So if the guy got five bucks from everybody he'd
be in good shape.
>> Lance McBride:
[Laughter]
He'd be rich.
>> Lance McBride:
He didn't get anything.
That's why it's so popular.
>> Ed Perkins: Right, right. Actually, I think somebody else was taking over
the maintenance of one of these sites.
>>: [Indiscernible] have so many conferences for EEE there.
dependent on this website.
So it's totally
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. Yeah. And then what you probably might want to do is
change this line too. This sent from a contact form on your website named here
and you might want to -- well, usually you can figure out what the subject is,
what it's for. But if you wanted to say it was contact form 4256 or something
or other. If you wanted to be able to -- if you had a big long list and the
names all looked the same, so you need to have some mnemonic aspects to the
form name. Because if you try to figure out -- and then the other thing is you
stick these all over your site and then you don't really know, where are these
all used on the site? Well, I don't really know because you could sprinkle
them around. So it might be useful. There's another thing that we learned,
especially with GHTC, is we've got -- I don't know, like 200 pages on this
thing now. And we had -- when it initially started out, people would make
posts for announcements. Not posts. Pages for announcements announcing the
contest is now open and they make a page. That's not what pages are for but
posts should be used for that. And so then we ended up with all sorts of pages
to manage. And if you got -- so you end up -- so you got to think a little bit
about when you're structuring the content on the site of all these different
pages so what are they all going to be and how are you going to manage this
because you don't want to end up three years later with 500 pages and you try
to go in and do something and it's just too much to deal with. So you need to
think -- posts you can search for categories on them. Pages, it's really hard.
There's no categories on them. You really can't go through and find things.
>>:
What is on swipe?
>> Ed Perkins:
Oh, we have on swipe, yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
That's a tablet formatting.
I'm not sure if it does anything [indiscernible].
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah.
It's enabled.
It's enabled.
So I should probably go to the --
>> Lance McBride: You open up the tablet and you go to this site, it will look
different than what you look at on the computer. It just creates some subtle
differences there.
>>:
So if I go to the site to GHTC --
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Should look different.
What are we going to do tomorrow?
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride: Tomorrow we are going to allow you to build your site with
assistance from us if you need it. That's basically what it is. So if you
want to come in here and you want to get your site up and running, put it
together, we'll be here to help you.
>>: Are we going to build the same thing or are we going to build all
different things?
>> Lance McBride:
Whatever you guys want to build.
Yeah.
>>: Do you want us to use the IEEE site that you mentioned earlier or do you
want us to create ->> Ed Perkins: If you want to create your own, then that's fine. If you just
want to play around with the IEEE site just to get some experience with stuff,
that's fine too. That's why we created those up so that people could do some
stuff. WordPress.com, you're restricted. You can mostly focus on content
instead of other things.
>>:
Could I suggest we start from, say, step zero?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
Yeah.
Yeah.
>>: Just one after another and then we have a site coming up. Everybody
working on their own thing and we can all share your time. So if you could one
after another and we get a site coming up.
>> Ed Perkins: One thing we could do is everybody's got a computer is you
could get everybody to install WAMP or one of the website server things on your
own computer. And then what you can do is download the WordPress and install
it right on your own computer so then you have like a development machine so
you've got WordPress there that you can play with and you can try all sorts of
stuff out because it's not the live site that you're going to have and then you
can save content and put it on a live site later.
>>:
We'll all do the same thing.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Yeah, yeah.
You can all do that if you want.
[Indiscernible].
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah, yeah. Then you've got your own little private WordPress
sitting here. So you become your own ISP in that case. The problem is your
machine is not really a server on the Internet so you're not going to make a
site that is going to be able to be seen on the Internet but you've got a
development system that you can work on. Yeah. At your local -- yeah.
>>:
[Indiscernible] on to the online?
>> Ed Perkins: Well, you can. You could export the post. So if you create a
post you could export the post and import them later on into -- but you've got
to have a site online that lets you import stuff and I'm not sure WordPress
lets you do that.
>> Lance McBride: I don't think it does. And the other aspect is if you use a
plug-in on your local that you don't have access to on the host, that would be
a problem as well.
>>: Did you say that WAMP is the name of the development environment you're
talking about?
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. It's Windows Apache MySQL and PHP. What is it? I don't
know what the W. XAM. Which is -- yeah, W for Windows and X for XAML Linux.
And Apache MySQL and PHP. Those are the things you need. The web server,
database, and PHP interpreter.
>>: No, I'm saying you were talking about a development environment that we
could possibly ->> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Is that more or less what it's called?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
[Indiscernible] environment.
>>:
Okay.
Good.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. Yeah. Basically you install a WAMP server on your own
machine and so you make your C directory, you make www or wamp. Then there's
some default folders for the program and then there's another one called www
which is where your web site goes in and then you put in your WebPress in there
and then you go to local host and do your thing and you can see it.
>> Lance McBride:
You're probably going to have to walk people through that.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. I don't have it on this one now, so tonight, my homework
will be to go through the steps and maybe make like a PowerPoint of what goes
on.
>>:
What is [indiscernible]?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
What is it?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Oh, that's another -- better WordPress reCAPTCHA.
Better?
Word DB, WDB better word reCAPTCHA.
What does that mean?
>> Lance McBride: So the CAPTCHA is that you have to enter the code in for
spam on contact form.
>> Ed Perkins: Let me go back to the plug-ins. And so we want to do -- we're
going to get 447 plug-ins have something to do with CAPTCHA. So there's
CAPTCHA, there's image CAPTCHA. People keep trying to work on is this my most
popular. Let's do the popular ones. So Kismet is the one that -- but that
doesn't do a CAPTCHA for that so there's jet pack. Jet pack is something
that -- this is sort of an API thing because jet pack is something that you can
install that hooks your blog up to WordPress.com.
>>:
I think they removed the search.
>> Ed Perkins: Did they? Oh. Just like in the most popular. Why do they do
that? That's not good. All right. So let's go back to the podium. So you
have CAPTCHA and tie.
but it doesn't.
>>:
I was hoping that I could get it sorted by most popular
I don't know if you toggle the keyboard?
>> Ed Perkins: No, it just goes back to plug-ins and browsers for popular.
Author tag. Let's do -- no I don't think that makes any difference. Yeah.
They don't have any way to sort these. So here's a CAPTCHA for gravity forms.
So the gravity forms which is style. Oh, that's what I was going to show them.
So let's look at reCAPTCHA. One thing I was going to call is CSS. Pages
redirection. Oh, because I did tags. All right. Go back. I don't want to
tag. I want a keyword. Oh, okay. ReCAPTCHA. Plug in directory reCAPTCHA. I
don't know. There's like too many of them to look through. One thing I did
want to show you is we've mentioned the CSS setting these things. So where
is -- oh, that's right. Appearance. Custom CSS management. So what we've
done here is okay, the -- so I had to change the height of the footer which
is -- let's look at the site and a new tab. New tab. So what we did is we had
a whole bunch of stuff down here in the footer. We had another line of stuff
and the height was too small and stuff was not showing up so I changed the -here we are. So here's a thing in Firefox. I hope there's a thing in Firefox.
Okay. Did it run it? Okay. That's not what I want. I want the -- I wanted
the inspector. Okay. I get an inspector. Anyway. I'll have to check. I
have an add-on to Firefox that lets you inspect all of your stuff. No, that's
not -- didn't bring up what I wanted. So what I did is we needed to make that
bigger so this is probably going to call the custom CSS manager. So I went and
I found out what the DIV type on HTML was for the footer and I went in and I
made it -- I said, okay, let's change it to 80. So I made it bigger. The
default was like 60 or something. So I made it 80. For example, so the drop
down menus that we have here were not supported by the theme. But if I go and
I looked at the code, all of the -- everything was there to do them. Although
they didn't work because it's in the CSS. And I actually had a guy who helped
me with this that I ran into somebody and I said -- he said, okay, here's what
you do. You go in and you -- as you add these on list items, for all of these
things in the navigation menu, and I did that and I added that and now dropped
off menus work. So you can do things with the CSS to add things. And here
we -- there was some spacing issues with the calendar widget. They were too
wide so we had to fix the width of those. And so you can fix things. Let me
find here -- I want to go to. Yes. Where is it? This one. I need to fix
this site because this has that problem. Where the -- oh, they took the
calendar off. Did they take the calendar?
>> Lance McBride: No, there's a calendar middle left.
link right there around your mouse.
Passed it.
There's a
>> Ed Perkins: Okay. There's nothing in the calendar. Maybe it's the -- one
site anyway, I had put the calendar in and it's sticking out into the thing so
I'm going to have to go and take the CSS and fix it. So anyway, so that's sort
of a useful kind of plug-in if you run into issues with your site or we had -I had one site, the header font was like this big and it's way too big. So you
can go and you can change things without having to go in and do anything with
the code. Probably in too deep.
>> Lance McBride:
You have to know CSS a little bit.
>> Ed Perkins: I don't know that much about it. Very rudimentary CSS. I do
Google to CSS and there's some website that the help guide for CSS and I look
in there to figure out what to do with it. So I don't do it very often. But
that's -- so what you do is this gets applied after all the other CSS. So this
end up overriding things. I was hoping I had the inspector thing. That's cool
to look at the inspector thing. I don't have that. I'll have to add that
tomorrow. TablePress. Here's TablePress. So we have several of these things.
This is left from last year. We had -- so if I go, let me see. Here's a
program schedule. You can put a pretty big table in here. This has basically
got all the times of the day and this is to span columns. And so -- and then
let me go -- I'll go find the web page for that. Go to the archives. Look for
the 2014. And where was the schedule?
>> Lance McBride:
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
It's probably programmed.
Yeah.
Technical program.
Let's go in there.
Thank you very much.
>> Lance McBride:
You bet.
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. There it is. So that's -- that's that table that I had.
So that's what it looks like. And so you can see down here it says edit. So
this is to edit that table. So you can do ->>:
So many different levels of this you do --
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
Yeah.
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
So there's five columns.
Yeah.
It's like merging cells in Excel basically.
So how do you get to this page?
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Column.
Five columns.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Column.
Columns.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
Column spans.
Call spans?
>> Lance McBride:
>>:
When you do the table.
It's this page here.
TablePress.
That's in TablePress.
You go to TablePress, it will show this.
>> Ed Perkins: Right. So the nice thing about this is I can go here and I can
export this content of this table as a CSV file so I can pull it out of there
and I can upload it so I can change it and upload it or I can go in here.
>>:
So can you slide those up and down things ABCD, like a slide?
>> Ed Perkins: Yeah. You can resort them. And so the only problem with this
is if you're putting a URL in, you've got to type this in. There's no way to
add a URL. There's no interface to do it.
>>:
I'm talking about the width.
>> Lance McBride:
interface?
Can you make it wider?
These columns?
Like in this
>>:
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
That's good.
>> Ed Perkins: What I did here is I can sort this, which is probably not the
best thing to have done. I don't know if I control Z will unsort it. No, so
obviously I don't want to do that because it's sorted everything. But I can
insert an image. Apparently now I can do -- I can insert a link which I think
they added. Either that or I never figured out how to use it.
>>:
Which version is your website?
>> Lance McBride:
They're all three. --
>> Ed Perkins: Everybody's on the same version. Going back to the dashboard.
I don't want it to change that. Yeah, we're all on 3.9.3.
>>:
Okay.
>> Ed Perkins: So here, okay. Let's look at this. There's six comments in
the spam queue. So we'll just do this briefly and then we'll be done. So here
we are. Nike. Nike. Air Jordans. Fake Christian something or other. Nikes.
Something or other. Something or other. So these got through a Kismet. So
and these are in spam but these are all moved into spam. So these were already
taken care of by Kismet so there's no pending comments. These are the ones in
spam so we can go empty the spam and these all go away. Boom.
>>:
But if people are tired --
>> Ed Perkins:
I think this is a good time to end.
>>:
Yes.
So see you tomorrow.
>>:
Thank you.
>>:
9:00 o'clock.
>> Ed Perkins:
>>:
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
We'll build some website together.
Everybody's brain is full.