December 9th Workshop

December's workshop is cancelled. Hope to see you in January.

November 10th Workshop

Please note we will meet in the usual G1 room at Stepinac. For direction click here.
Also, this month's workshop is on a Tuesday.

The areas we will cover:

• We will do a brief introduction to WordPress if new members show up
• We will demonstrate how to use a CAPTCHA plugin on a website & discuss whether CAPTCHAs are a good idea or not
• discussion will be based on:  http://tinyurl.com/2crqrjr
• We will attempt to convert the new PC Renew site to a "responsive" website
• Meaning that we will make it mobile friendly. Find out what this is all about & why it's important for many reasons
•  As examples of Social Media, we will examine the following:
• Google+
• Set up a MeetUp page for WPCUG

October 14th Workshop

Please note we will meet in the usual G1 room at Stepinac.
For directions click here

The areas we will cover:

• We will do a brief introduction to WordPress if new members show up
• WordFence - is a security plugin for WordPress that provides security, protecting a website from hacks and malware
• I'll show the group detailed automated email messages that WordFence generated which shows hack attempts on the new PC Renew website from "suspicious" countries
• We will attempt to convert the new PC Renew site to a "responsive" website
• Meaning that we will make it mobile friendly. Find out what this is all about & why it's important for many reasons
• We will examine a website dedicated to WordPress & see what it has to offer wpbeginner.com
• Introduce DesktopServer
•  This is server software that allows of the development of a WorPress site locally on your own PC

September 9th Workshop

Please note we will meet in the usual room at Stepinac G1.

The areas we will cover:

• We will do a brief introduction to WordPress if new members show up
• WordFence - is a security plugin for WordPress that provides security, protecting a website from hacks and malware
• I'll show the group detailed automated email messages that WordFence generated which shows hack attempts on the new PC Renew website from various countries
• We will attempt to convert the new PC Renew site to a "responsive" website
• Meaning that we will make it mobile friendly. Find out what this is all about & why it's important for many reasons
• A round table discussion of the change management issues related to managing websites
• which changes have value -  considering the history & nature of our website? 
•  who are the customers & what do they find useful?
• what are our responsibilities to our customers?
• Is content terse or detailed & comprehensive

June 10th Workshop

We will continue working a new website for PC Renew using the WordPress platform.

The new PC Renew site is about 98.6% ready & you can examine it at: WestchesterPCrenew.com

Activities will include:

• A demo of how the site is backed up using  a manual process
• installing several plugins which augment WordPress's capabilities
•  Photo Gallery
• A more advanced  content editor
• Search Engine Optimization
• Google Analytics

Interesting development - Our host LanLine has set up a folder for us that gives us the ability to build a WordPress website.  One of the possible uses for this is to see whether we can duplicate our main website but this remains to be seen. There might be other uses for this folder - let's discuss. I tried some themes & put in a very limited amount of content but it's all very preliminary. You can chek it out at: wpcug.org/wordpress

May 13th Workshop

We will continue working a new website for PC Renew using the WordPress platform.

The new PC Renew site is about 90% ready & you can examine it at: WestchesterPCrenew.com

Activities will include:

• A demo of how the site is backed up using  a manual process
• A demo of how to place Facebook and Twitter share buttons
• installing several plugins which augment WordPress's capabilities
•  Photo Gallery
• A more advanced  content editor
• Search Engine Optimization
• Google Analytics

April 15th Workshop

WordPress
We will continue working a new website for PC Renew using the WordPress platform.

The new PC Renew site is about 90% ready & you can examine it at: WestchesterPCrenew.com

Activities will include:

• ** *A demo of how the site is backed up using a free plugin called BackWPup
• selecting which widgets to place in the sidebar & footer areas
• installing several plugins which augment WordPress's capabilities
• A more advanced  content editor
• Search Engine Optimization
• Google Analytics 
• Photo Gallery
• a dynamic map

March 11th workshop

Vacation Time 

Sorry, no workshop in March. 

But in April we will continue building the PC Renew site & examine a couple of methods for backing up the site since we can't totally rely on our host for backup.  

February 11th workshop

This month we will direct our activities into two major areas:

Updating our club's website

We will start this month's workshop with a demonstration of how to update the club's own website, wpcug.org. 

Our website has a unique and dramatic look and it works well for our members as well as for new visitors.  It loads very quickly and ranks high in Google search results.  It's only drawback is that it was created almost 15 years ago using the FrontPage website builder and this fact makes updating the site somewhat complicated. If you are interested in how our site is updated with latest newsletter & the general meeting information, then this workshop is for you. 

WordPress
Then, as time permits, we will continue working a new website for PC Renew using the WordPress platform.

The new PC Renew website is about 90% ready & you can examine it at: WestchesterPCrenew.com

Activities will include:

• selecting which widgets to place in the sidebar & footer areas
• installing several plugins which augment WordPress's capabilities
• A more advanced  editor
• Search Engine Optimization
• Google Analytics 
• Photo Gallery
• a dynamic map

The workshop starts at 7PM. See Directions

January 14th workshop

This month we will continue working on building a new website for PC Renew using the WordPress platform as a class project.

This project will include:

• Selecting a hosting provider
• Selecting a domain name for the site
• Installing the WordPress platform
• Selecting a theme for the site
• Build the website
• Test the navigation
• Presenting the resulting site to Jimmy & Gary
• Making changes as requested by Jimmy & Gary
• Bringing the site live

The workshop starts at 7PM. See Directions.