[Communications] Fwd: From JW - CCGA Site Migration Complete

[Amy Olson]

Here’s the email JW was referring to, just for quick reference!
Amy

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> Hello All,
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> Our CCGA site is back up, the migration from the old vendor is pretty much complete. 
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> I’ll send in a separate email the login stuff for the new vendors.
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> Email Stuff
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> I did set-up the 5 mailing lists on the HostGator. I did a test this morning with our group and based on your responses the 5 mailing lists should be working. 
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> The only true email address we have is info at chicagocommunitygardens.org <mailto:info at chicagocommunitygardens.org>  which forwards to our communications list.
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> We can set-up more emails as we need them like we have in the past at any time.
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> Theme
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> The old Travel Blogger theme hadn’t been updated in years and so I abandoned it. I just picked a new theme called Kale, I had to use something and this one has a nice feature-set and is free.
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> Here are some help citations on this there:
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> https://www.lyrathemes.com/kale/ <https://www.lyrathemes.com/kale/>
> https://help.lyrathemes.com/article/246-display-layouts-formats <https://help.lyrathemes.com/article/246-display-layouts-formats>
> https://help.lyrathemes.com/article/233-featured-posts-pages <https://help.lyrathemes.com/article/233-featured-posts-pages>
> I installed several other themes, including the ones we previously spoke about and we could get started with any of them at any time.  Here are some that I installed:
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> Calendar
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> The calendar is back and on the site. I entered the conf. planning meeting on the 27th so there would be something to display. So events can be entered now going forward.
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> Also, the ability for other to enter events on the site is back, see ‘Submit An Event’ in the menu tree.
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> I tested this and it submits an event in a pending status for one of us to review and then we have to post the event to have it pop in the calendar display.  We also need to monitor this feature for spam entries. 
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> New Photo Plug-In
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> I installed a new free photo display plugin called: NextGen gallery.  It allows sliders and all kinds of cool photo display layouts which are prefect for our rich garden photos. You can see a sample page using the new plug-in under ‘Who We Are -> Our Many Faces’ on the menu tree.
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> Remaining Feature-Set
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> All the other plugins we were using are installed and working. I can detect no presence or manifestation of the malware afflicting the ols site. All the old posts and media content are present.
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> One thing we may need is our various CCGA logos uploaded to the media library. Amy over the years has created several of these in different sizes and such that we used in the past on the site and those may not have been transferred over. 
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> Another thing to do:  we need to consolidate this page in our menu tree:
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> ….with the sidebar links:
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> And maybe consolidate down to one set of links and I didn’t get the most recent copy of this data so these may not be relevant links and we have to check the links as well.
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> Training Session & Remaining Considerations
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> We can have an online work session any time to continue to set the new site up, I made a list of stuff here we could review: 
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> continue setting up site on new vendor;
> review the Kale theme I am using now and any potential theme review,
> consider creating custom home page as opposed to chronological blog posts;
> re-think of permanent content and menu tree structure;
> better CCGA branding on the site, use of our logos, etc..;
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> If you guys suggest a date and time to meet that would be great.  I could do it tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 20th or maybe this coming weekend or early next week.
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> Let me know if you have any questions and let me know what steps I missed.
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> JW
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> JW Glass
> Chicago, Illinois
> 312.498.3889  |  james.wesley.glass at gmail.com <mailto:jameswesleyglass at gmail.com>
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> JW Glass
> Chicago, Illinois
> 312.498.3889  |  james.wesley.glass at gmail.com <mailto:jameswesleyglass at gmail.com>
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