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190602~190608
- Issues and discoveries:
- q-Translate-x is out of date and support, need to be replaced
- The theme default menu has the fully expanded issue in mobile mode
- The Timely Calendar widget doesn’t seem to be responsive?? seems to have a lot of bloated advertisements.
- The theme default slider doesn’t switch language.
- Only support slides based on post or post category.
- It doesn’t switch the post-based slides based on different language.
- To investigate solutions
- To discuss do we need to have article behind the slide images (clicking image and go to an article). The old website just uses static pictures.
- No easy way to turn on breadcrumb for wiki
- Created fresh wp/theme at ctzen.org/sunnyvale/ctzs
- Installed theme: Catch Kathmandu
- Installed the following plugin
- Breadcrumb NavXT
- Max Mega Menu: Use this menu to replace theme default to addresses the “mobile menu fully expanded” issue.
- Ploylang: Replacing q-Translate-x because it’s out of date and out of support
- The Events Calendar: Not tested and worked on.
- TinyMCE Advanced: better usage
- Yada Wiki: For simple wiki functionality
- Yoast SEO
- Configured theme
-
- Logo
- Default content display no side bar
-
- Configured Max Mega Menu
- Style the menu bar, center, height, color…ect.
- Turn it on in when setup the menu item, it will take over theme default.
- The menu position used in the theme is “Secondary menu”
- Configured Ploylang
- Added language English and Chinese Taiwan
- Turn on “custom post type and taxonomy” in setting so language switcher show up in Yada Wiki.
- Added language switcher to “top right bar”
- Configured Yada Wiki
- Do not enable Gutenberg Editor
- The TynyMCS Advanced editor kicks in. It has wiki buttons and all that, pretty nice.
- Configured Breadcrumb NavXT
- In General
- unchecked “Home Breadcrumb” – This will disable showing the home as breadcrumb root.
- In Post Type
- uncheck “Wiki Archive Display” – This take out archive page in breadcrumb
- No satisfactory breadcrumb behavior based on wiki category or taxonomy. Need to make wiki page hierarchical.
- In General
- Created Main/主頁 in pages
- Discovered slide issues when creating slides
- Created posts for main slides in pair for both en/zh.
- Created post category pair for inclusion by slides for both en/zh.
- The slides doesn’t switch based on languages. Cannot find a solution or fix.
- Investigated and found another slide widget which seemed to work. Smart 3 slider.
- Discovered slide issues when creating slides
- Created menu
- Turn on Max Mega Menu
- Need one menu per language, they are separated
- In the menu edit page, need to turn on wiki related options in screen options (on top) so the wiki pages can be used to create menu
- Created landing pages for all the menu entries for both languages.
- Customize wiki page to become hierarchical. I.e., support parent page functionality
- allowed setting of parent page
- setup breadcrumbs based on parent/child relationship
- More tasks
- Finalize slides
- Test and finalize Calendar
- Investigate removal of archive pages (wiki) – 404 instead
- Investigate fine grained user access management.
- Integration with class registration system.
- Investigate plugins for three links of cultivation
- Investigate content block
190609~190616
- Clean up tables
- Use plugin first (if not working, drop from database)
- Researched calendar widgets: looking for simple, responsive, multi-lingual
- xxx My Calendar widget doesn’t support multi-lingual
- ??? Event Calendar WD – Responsive Event Calendar plugin, need to verify if support multi-lingual
- Researched hotspot widgets for three links of cultivation: Draw Attention seems promising.
- Researched fine grained user access control
- Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force
- Capability Manager Enhanced – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
- Width of content area is controlled by the following in “responsive.css”
@media screen and (max-width: 1344px) {
.site {
width: 1220px;
}
#primary {
width: 700px;
}
#site-title {
font-size: 32px;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 1280px) {
.site {
width: 1100px;
}
#primary {
width: 620px;
}
#secondary {
width: 360px;
}
#secondary .widget {
padding: 20px 30px;
}
#secondary .widget.widget_catchkathmandu_social_widget {
padding: 20px 30px 10px;
}
#site-title {
font-size: 28px;
font-size: 2.8rem;
}
.container {
padding: 0 40px;
}
..........- Created clean installation again with all the essential plugins
- All the main tables
- Step2：Added Smart Slider 3， capability manager enhanced
190623~190629
- Step3: Researched and Added “Peter’s Login Redirect“
- Created db dump after step3
- Researched Calendar plugins
- “All-in-one Calendar by Time.ly”
- ISSUE: doesn’t filter by language.
- Reasonable features and styles
- “The Events Calendar”
- ISSUE: Recurring events in pro version only
- ISSUE: Use shortcode to embed calendar in pro version only
- “Modern event calendar lite”
- Working properly with multiple languages
- Not ideal style, too complicated
- Some recent, concerning feedback
- “My Calendar”
- ISSUE: doesn’t seem to support multiple languages
- reasonable look and feature
- “Event Calendar WD”
- ISSUE: recurring events in PRO version only
- “Event Calendar – Responsive Calendar”
- ISSUE:recurring events in PRO version only
- “Spiffy Calendar”
- ISSUE: doesn’t seem to be language sensitive
- “All-in-one Calendar by Time.ly”
- Determined to use “Modern event calendar lite”
- Explored different configurations.
- We need 3 categories: Dharma Events, Special Events, Classes
- We can use full calendar for the “Dharma Events/Calendar” with monthly view.
- We can use list view classic for landing page for “Dharma Events” with filter “Dharma Events”.
- We can probably use list view for “Dharma Classes” as well.
190630~190706
- Change style for language chooser – This will make the language chooser displayed horizontally.
.widget_polylang ul { margin: 0; }
.widget_polylang ul li
{
display: inline; /* horizontal list, use "list-item" or other appropriate value for vertical list */
list-style-type: none; /* use "initial" or other to enable bullets */
margin: 0 5px 0 0; /* adjust spacing between items */
opacity: 0.5;
-o-transition: 1s ease opacity;
-moz-transition: 1s ease opacity;
-webkit-transition: 1s ease opacity;
transition: 1s ease opacity;
}
- Researched and customized the theme
- The need: We decided to turn off the right hand side bar in all pages (usually takes widget and displays meta information). This bar takes roughly 1/3 of the page width and leave 2/3 for the left hand side for content area. When turned off, the theme doesn’t adjust accordingly and still leave only 2/3 of the page width for content area to work with.
- Need to customize style.css and responsive.css in the theme files
- The proper way is to create a child theme to isolate the customization.
- Create child theme
- Installed plugin “Child theme wizard”
- In the Tools menu select and kick off “Child theme wizard”
- Create theme CTZen as child theme of “Catch Kathmandu”
- Need to enter site identity, logo…
- Tweak the css for margin/padding for header and menu bar in Additional CSS screen .
- !!! Need to assign the menu display location again for Max Mega Menu again for all language versions. Otherwise the menu will not be displayed properly.
- Need to enqueue the “/css/responsive.css” to reflect page width in responsive mode for different device screens.
- In “functions.php” do the following
function your_theme_enqueue_styles() {$parent_style = ‘parent-style’;wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style,
get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’);wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’,
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’,
array($parent_style),
wp_get_theme()->get(‘Version’)
);$parent_style1 = ‘catchkathmandu-responsive’;wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style1,
get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/css/responsive.css’);wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-responsive’,
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/css/responsive.css’,
array($parent_style1),
wp_get_theme()->get(‘Version’)
);
}add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘your_theme_enqueue_styles’);
- Researched plugins for user role/capability and content access control
- Researched PressPermit for advanced access control but the desired function was not in free version
- Will stay with the features provided by Capability Manager Enhanced. Stop further research.
- The limitation is the general Editor can edit published personal wiki(but not the private ones). This is probably acceptable for now.
- It’s still useful to make certain content readable only for registered users.
- Will stay with the features provided by Capability Manager Enhanced. Stop further research.
- Researched plugin “Groups”
- Provide infrastructure group for access control
- Can work with custom post types
- Can restrict access “per page”
- For example, viewable only for registered users. This can be useful.
- If a menu entry is based on a restricted page, then it will not be displayed.
- Restrict access based on category and taxonomy is in Pro version.
- It seems to have access control only for READ operation, not edit…
- !!! Need to compare with PressPermit if we need this types of functions.
- Researched “Content control”
- Control read access to content
- Restriction based on category, taxonomy…
- With warning message and redirect (e.g. login page)
- ISSUE: doesn’t work with custom post type
- Researched “If menu”
- This is useful if we need to control menu items based on user roles….
- This can be used for menu entries that access internal content
- Researched “Advanced Access Manager”
- This is the plugin with full blown features
- Includes role management
- capability management
- works with custom post types
- support inheritance
- login redirect…
- both front-end and back-end control
- The free version supports creating access policies for individual content, not by categories or taxonomies.
- !!! To compare “User Role Editor”, another full featured plugin.
- This is the plugin with full blown features
- Researched “User Roles and capabilities”
- Similar to Capability Manager Enhanced”
- Can create and assign multiple roles
- ISSUE: Doesn’t detect wiki pages
- Researched “Member” plugin
- Role manager that supports multiple roles assignment
- Content access control is embedded inside content edit pages. Doesn’t seem to support category though.
- No rule/category/taxonomy based restriction, at least not in free version
- Researched “Restrict User Access”
- This seems to have all the features we need.
- Determined to go with it and replaced “Capability Manager Enhanced” with it.
- Might still need plugin for multiple roles assignment
- Researched PressPermit for advanced access control but the desired function was not in free version
- Researched grid plugin
- Comparable to section and advanced column widget in Ultimate Gutenberg.
- Can specify how many column with pre-defined width ratio.
- Has a grid designer for more complicated layout
- Can specify the height of the section
- Doesn’t allow highlight the border
- Created Baseline-1
- Tested all the necessary plugins identified so far, all is stable
- Created database dump ctzen_baseline_1_190704
- Installed plugins
- Ready to move it Siteground
- Some useful plugins for future use
- Role Includer – assign multiple roles to a user
- If Menu – visibility control for menu items
- Grids – simple yet advanced grid layout
- Yoast SEO – Tool box for search engine optimization
- Draw Attention – Clickable image area (need this for three links of cultivation)
- Created example home page
- Issues and discoveries:
190707~190713
-
- Created baseline-2 with minor updated
- Refresh site “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org” with baseline-2
- Cannot move to “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org” because WP 5.2.2 requires php 5.6 and up. Changing PHP version might impact the current operation site.
- Use site “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org”
- Leave site “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org/bm/” alive for now
- Still need to perform minor configuration to bring up baseline-2
- Give status update to the team
- Created training video for “Create Calendar and Events”
- Created training video for “Create and Maintain Wiki pages”
190714~190720
- Start web content development
- Finished task D001 – Develope pages under “About Us”
- Temporarily keep the link to website wiki here in the page for development.
- Finished task D002 – Develope pages under “Classes/Class Description”
- Finished task D003 – Develope pages under “Dharma Events/Event Description”
- Finished task D004 – Develope pages under “Dharma Gems” (pages under “Dharma Gems/Chung Tai Koans” is being worked on by others)
- Finished task D005 – Develope pages under “Support US” (some pending issues)
- Finished task D006 – Develope pages under “FAQ”
- Finished task D001 – Develope pages under “About Us”
190721~190727
- Update plugin Yada Wiki from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2
- Manually updated the file “~inc/functions-register-cpt.php” to port the customization (turned on parent page support in page attribute support)
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Custommed CSS
/* hide navigation to previous and next page in post page */
.nav-previous, .nav-next{
display:none;
}
/* hide title for wiki page
.single article .entry-header{
display:none;
}
*/
/* remove space between menu bar and slider for home page */
.page #main{
padding-top: 0px;
}
/* remove page title */
.page article .entry-header{
display:none;
}
/*too much space above logo*/
#header-content { display: none; }
#header-content { padding: 0 ; }
/*logo border*/
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 5px; }
#site-logo { padding-top: 5px; }
/*space above logo*/
.site { margin-top: 5px; }
/* calendar style adjustments -
ListView-Minimal - remove "view detail"
*/
.col-md-3, .col-sm-3{
display:none;
}
/* calendar style adjustments
ListView-Modern - remove "view detail"
*/
.col-md-4m, .col-sm-4{
display:none;
}
/* calendar style adjustments - ListView-Modern - remove "event sharing, mail, fb..."
*/
.mec-event-sharing{
display:none;
}
/* Make the featured buttons extend to full page width
*/
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: -33.33%;
margin-right: -33.33%;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 1344px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: -33.33%;
margin-right: -33.33%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 1280px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: -33.33%;
margin-right: -33.33%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 1152px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: -33.33%;
margin-right: -33.33%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 1024px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: -33.33%;
margin-right: -33.33%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 960px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media only screen
and (min-device-width : 768px)
and (max-device-width : 1024px)
and (orientation : portrait) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 640px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 560px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media only screen
and (min-device-width : 320px)
and (max-device-width : 568px)
and (orientation : landscape) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 360px) {
.ctzen_featured{
margin-left: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
}
}
.powered{display:none}
.widget-area#fourth {
color: #000000;
text-align: right;
}
#site-generator.container {
background:#333333;
}
#site-generator .copyright {
text-align: center;
float: none;
width: 100%;
padding-top:5px;
}
#site-generator .site-info {
padding-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
#supplementary.two {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-bottom: 0;
}
#supplementary #text-2 {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
#supplementary #text-3 {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
#supplementary p {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
#supplementary #media_image-2 {
padding-top:10px;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.qubely-image-container{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.qubely-image-image{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
!!!! 191020 gone live !!!!
Sunnyvale.ctzen.org
Armin user: ctzen
Site URL: “Sunnyvale.ctzen.org”
WordPress URL: “Sunnyvale.ctzen.org”
WP directory on SiteGround: public_html/sunnyvale_wp
Note: The directory was “public_html/sunnyvale”, but it coincide with the directory that subdomain “Sunnyvale.ctzen.org” points to. That prevents the setup of a redirect rule “http://ctzen.org/sunnvle” –> “http://sunnvale.ctzen.org”. As a result, we moved the wp installation directory to “public_html/sunnyvale_wp”.
The directory “public_html/sunnyvale” was kept empty and a text file in it to warn people not to use that directory.
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Google clean up and search engine optimization:
- Mapped “http://ctzen.org/sunnyvale” to “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org” so the cached links could come to new site.
- “.htaccess” was updated at “public_html” for ctzen.org.
- Rules for the new mapping was place inside. It was placed manually because Siteground’s redirection tool has some caching issues that prevented it from happening
RewriteEngine on AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52 .php .php5 .php4 .php3 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ctzen\.org$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.ctzen\.org$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$ RewriteRule ^zen\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/Zen\.ctzen\.org\/$1" [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^sunnyzen\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/sunnyzen\.ctzen\.org\/$1" [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^sunnyvale\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/sunnyvale\.ctzen\.org\/$1" [R=301,L]
- Used Google URL removal tools to remove old urls:
- Show all
URL Status Removal Type 
RequestedPendingOutdated page removalOct 24, 2019PendingOutdated page removalOct 24, 2019RemovedOutdated page removalOct 22, 2019RemovedOutdated page removalOct 22, 2019RemovedOutdated page removalOct 22, 2019RemovedOutdated page removalOct 22, 2019
- Put in indexing request for top level URLs from New sites
- Installed Yaost SEO
- Submit sitemap.xml “https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org/sitemap_index.xml” to google