<div dir="ltr">Dear ECs, <div><br></div><div>Here is the guidance I received from Tapani , in respect of teh NCUC website upgrade as discussed at today's meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Benjamin <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Tapani Tarvainen</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:51 AM<br>Subject: Re: Access to the NCUC website for content update.<br>To: Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>>, Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix <<a href="mailto:rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi Benjamin and Raphael,<br>
<br>
Apologies for being slow to respond, and warning that I'll be more or<br>
less completely offline again from tomorrow until early April. Anyway:<br>
<br>
As I recall, NCUC's current WordPress setup was built by James Gannon,<br>
without my involvement, and I haven't done anything much with it<br>
other than maintaining the server it's running on.<br>
<br>
I wasn't aware that he'd used a paid theme. (I would have advised<br>
against that.) <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">I don't know but would not be surprised if upgrading<br>
the theme costs extra. If so, your options are either paying for it or<br>
replacing the theme with another (free) one. Or, theoretically, fix<br>
the theme - likely to require non-trivial coding (not advised)</span>.<br>
<br>
Upgrading the theme may also require some extra work now that it's<br>
already been broken. Possibly as much as switching to another theme.<br>
Of course it may also turn out to be trivial, but it's hard to<br>
predict.<br>
<br>
If you choose to change the theme, the recommended way is to build it<br>
as another wordpress installation first and switch DNS when ready.<br>
NCUC's server should be able to handle that, so no need to buy<br>
new hosting. Copying the existing installation to another name<br>
for experimenting would not be too hard either, perhaps simply<br>
changing the theme wouldn't break too many things.<br>
<br>
As for Benjamin's questions: no, there's no official way. You can of<br>
course pay for the upgrade work, there're plenty of people and<br>
companies willing to do that kind of work for money. In this case<br>
the best place to start would probably be GoodLayers support,<br>
<a href="https://goodlayers.ticksy.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://goodlayers.ticksy.com/</a>. You should first dig up the account<br>
used when the theme was first installed (perhams Gannon has it).<br>
And ask them first if purchasing a new version of the theme is likely<br>
to fix the problems without (much) extra work.<br>
<br>
Either way, I won't be able to help much more until I return<br>
home, probably around April 4.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Tapani<br>
<br>
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 11:45:22PM +0200, Benjamin Akinmoyeje (<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Dear Tapani,<br>
> Good day to you. I hope you are doing well.<br>
> <br>
> I believe I am doing something wrong, I have been unable to update the<br>
> pictures of the NCUC ECs. I may be missing something.<br>
> It requires going to the code base of the platform and I am yet to update<br>
> the page. The pictures were in the source files. I don't want to tamper<br>
> with all the details and coding stuff.<br>
> <br>
> I just need help to fix the page. Is there an official way to address this?<br>
> Can we pay for this service? EC are not webmasters.<br>
<br>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:09:45PM -0400, Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix (<a href="mailto:rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi Tapani<br>
> <br>
> Once more with some questions, this time regarding the NCUC website.<br>
> <br>
> It seems that a recent upgrade to Wordpress broke the theme that is<br>
> currently in use (Charity Hub by Goodlayers) and we can't make updates to<br>
> the page with pictures of the leadership, for example.<br>
> <br>
> I'd need to see if the theme can be upgraded, but these themes are paid<br>
> ones. I presume whatever was paid at the time doesnt entitle us to anything<br>
> now, but would you happen to know anything about this?<br>
<br>
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