WordPress The Events Calendar incompatible with membership and force login plugins I have a client Life Recovery who needed an internal staff portal for resources and a shared events diary. The resources and diary should be visible only to staff, however they wanted the portal home page to be visible visible to professionals working at…Continue reading How to put WordPress /events/ page behind a password
Category: Community Management
Playing with HexOS Part 1: losing my way, my mind and my pool
Welcome to my fourth blog about HexOS. I’m building a HexOS NAS for my family home and documenting my user journey as I go. You can read my previous posts here. I have built my machine and installed HexOS, this is my first time playing with it. I’m feeling cautions, this NAS is a clean…Continue reading Playing with HexOS Part 1: losing my way, my mind and my pool
Member mobilization for Labour Party
I got the call 10 minutes before Rishi Sunak stepped into the rain to call the election: “We need you, can you start work right now?” Within an hour I had built the spreadsheet, imported in some initial data and started calling members. By the next day I had merged in more data from from…Continue reading Member mobilization for Labour Party
Twitter account access when you lost access to your email
I have recently been working with a UK charity called National Estate Churches Network (NECN). I’ve been helping them rebuild their digital presence after a string of issues, both technical and otherwise, caused them to lose their domain name, website and email addresses. As a knock-on effect they had also lost access to their twitter…Continue reading Twitter account access when you lost access to your email
GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.
In May the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force (and no, brexit won’t get us out of it – still no benefit to brexit. Sorry.) In my view this is shaping up be a complicated piece of law for small businesses to follow, both intellectually and technically. Worryingly, I’ve not heard much…Continue reading GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.
Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar
There are lots of benefits to contributors uploading a profile picture (also known as an Avatar) to your WordPress site: it makes it clearer who is writing each blog, it helps the writer feel part of your site, it makes your site more personable and friendly which helps your readers to engage more. WordPress, by…Continue reading Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar
A discussion of website models for Open Source projects with OpenSAAS element
This blog contains a discussion of website models for Open Source projects with Software as a Service (SAAS) element, and uses four real projects as examples.
A Community Managers Notes and Links from FOSDEM 2015
Notes from fosdem 2015 relevant to digital community managers.
The Unofficial Community Managers Guide to FOSDEM 2015
I will be attending fosdem for the first time in a few days, and have been working hard figuring out all the best talks for Community Managers to go to. Here is a lowdown to save you the effort! Where there are conflicting events, the one I personally will attend is in black and the…Continue reading The Unofficial Community Managers Guide to FOSDEM 2015