Helpdesk March 6, 2025
March 18, 2025
At our Helpdesk on March 6, 2025 we discussed E- Catholic software, ai coding sites, styling headers, and Shopify vs WooCommerce.
Join us on Meetup
Join us on Meetup
Join us on Meetup
Join us on Meetup
At our Helpdesk on March 6, 2025 we discussed E- Catholic software, ai coding sites, styling headers, and Shopify vs WooCommerce.
We had four folks at our Meetup March 13 at Elm Street Bakery. We discussed Virtual Assistants (people, not bots), design trends, and bees!
Helped with signup link and menu management. Helped with WooCommerce theme. Added custom css to the Buy Now button on certain pages, also to move the image labels. Discussed WPBakery page builder technology. Tineye.com can see if a photo is in used on the web Discussed starting a business with writing/blogging. Google extension: keywords everywhere is great for finding how popular a keyword is
WordPress MeetUP August 1, 2018 We had a combo of both new people and regular attendees. Cathy, Christine, Cathy, Ron, Ben Andy, Terry, Brian, Randy, Matt, Brent and your happy note taker – Anne-Marie Upcoming WordCamp St. John Fisher, Rochester in October Niagara on the Lake Wordcamp in a couple of weeks – Ontario, Canada wp-Buffalo.com. is the website for our group. Everyone encouraged to join Slack, via the website Everyone encourage to submit topics ahead of time at web site Security questions If you manually install WP, keep separate passwords for database, host control panel etc. Plugin suggestion – Loginizer. Should you change wp-admin login? Andy says most plugins give you that option. After you install WP change the password and user name asap. Also try One Year or Last Pass for Password logs Note – be careful on plugins you install Keep your system updated as a precaution Look for back up databases WP Backup is a
Ron wants to only show certain content to certain roles. We found this link: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5047/how-to-check-if-a-user-is-in-a-specific-role Also, Andy mentioned the Members plugin
Topics discussed at last night’s meetup: Google Site Links & Google Search Console Arnie wanted to discuss the “Site Links” section of sub-links on Google’s Search Results Pages, and how you’d go about adding them. Andy mentioned that Google automatically will turn them on or off, and will notify you if that happens via the Google Search Console (formerly named Google Webmaster Tools). It is likely an algorithm that decides when a site gets Site links for a specific search term. Google will guess what links should go in the Site Links section, but you can remove some links if they’re not prominent pages (or turn it off completely – which we can’t think of a reason to do). Build Processes for Front-End We discussed tooling, workflows and our automation processes briefly. Arnie mentioned a newer option called Webpack which calls itself a ‘module bundler’. We also talked about Gulp and Grunt, which are in the same ballpark. Arnie also brought
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WPBuffalo/ Slack: Send email to wordcampbuffalo@gmail.com Subject: Slack Invite Request Body: Include your name.
10 attended Intros Andy showed us how to use Slack We talked some #wcbuf We looked at Joyce’s site, (TrailChaiser2020) and explained how to add/remove widgets, use the customizer, and generally how to customize a WordPress.com hosted site. We looked for a theme that could handle Anne’s requirements for her site. We looked at Chuck’s sites: Gateway Niagara. Andy got mad that he disabled right-click on the site. >:( We had a spirited discussion about digital photo copyright issues, online theft of photos, and other elements and whether disabling options for all users is the correct way to solve the issue. Where should widgets go? The sidebar or the footer? What should be the call to action? We discussed.
http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/add-a-signup-form-to-your-website https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/eventbrite-api/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/ https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/