GENERAL ISSUES AND QUESTIONS
1. Content font on the pages
Ok for the Tiny MCE Editor plug-in. At this stage, I cannot even change the “Paragraph” format available in the back office, where I would like to change the interline spacing. In addition, “Black Bold” does not show between the back office and the site itself. I hope the plug-in solves this and enables to work on the back office as one would with Word for instance. What I call “back office” is the WordPress administration interface, not sure this is the appropriate name.
ñ The bold is not showing because you are using a google font that only supports normal font size. If you want the Ubuntu font family for your website then we can try to hardwire it in the site (both normal and bold families) and remove the typography section in the admin settings.
2. Content of pages at the “Menu” level
At the first level of menus (e.g. “About ECCO” or “What are offsets?”), sometimes these menus lead to actual pages, sometimes you need to choose one of the submenus if you want to go somewhere.
I could see the difference in the back office: Appearance > Menu. Menu items defined as “Pages” would allow content and Menu item defined as “Custom” forces to select a sub-menu.
Exactly that's the way the menu is build
I would like:
- All menu pages should be set as “Customs” and lead directly to their sub-menus
- To be able to change the status from “Page” to “Custom” and vice versa if needed in the future.
You can at any time rearrange the custom menu, add and delete menu items, resort it etc.
Question: can I add another menu? For instance, in the revised Site map I sent, there was a Menu for “Links”, which does not appear here. How many Menu items can I have if I want to develop the content of the website in the future?
Yes you can but then the menu on the left hand side won't align correctly with the slideshow box on the right (it will be taller)
3. Uploading documents
I would like the size of the files I can upload to be increased to more than 2MB. Is it possible?
Yes it is. It's more a server limitation than a wordpress one.
4. Banner
Increase the size of the font for “European Club for Countertrade & Offset” of the top banner, with the ECCO logo.
In the future, I would like to be able to do that by myself. Is it possible?
We can add it as a parameter in the theme settings menu
5. Sub-menu boxes
On given menus, a box with the submenus appears below the main menu. Please withdraw it (see screenshot below).
This only happens on pages that do not have any content at all. My guess is that all pages will have content
CLARIFICATIONS ABOUT THE MEMBER AREA
As specified in the purchase order, the website is split into a public and a private section. This means:
- The public section can be accessed by anyone
- The private section can be accessed upon previous identification, using a ID and a password
I understood the additional plug-in to be developed was about being able to manage the creation of the private area and of such IDs and passwords, so registered users can access privileged contents available on the website. I did not see anything specific about that in the back office.
Also, I do not understand the following comment:
Ecco-offset members are Wordpress users.
As the ECCO offset members were never supposed to be able to access the website back office. Indeed, they were never supposed to be able to change the website content by publishing posts or document, or by leaving comments.
Wordpress offers 5 different privileges for WP users. The simplest one (Subscriber) cannot add/edit/delete content. The Subscriber can't even login to the back end admin pages. However, he/she can login through WP native login/register form and WP will make sure that cookies are set and that the member can access all private content on the front end
In a nutshell, when someone clicks on the “Member area” menu:
- He/she first asked to provide a Login and Password
- If he/she can provide those, he/she can access new submenus with privileged content, which include, but are not limited to, pages related to symposiums (about symposiums, see below).
The website administrator (myself) is the only person able to create Users profiles, i.e. create and attribute logins and passwords. No one else can access the back office.
The Subscriber account cannot add/edit content. He/she can only update their personal details like name/email/password etc. If you don't wish even that then we'll try to override WP user management to block anyone from accessing even the update profile page
CLARIFICATIONS ABOUT EVENTS
ECCO organises conferences (or Symposiums) during which Power Point presentations are made. On that matter, the website will be used for two purposes:
- Promote future events. For that goal, the “Upcoming event” page as it is now is ok for us (basic content).
- Distribute the PWP presentations that were made during past conferences.
Both ECCO members and non-members can attend these events. As a result, for this second purpose, these PWP presentations, gathered in a single “Symposium #n” page (Symposium #n being a past event), can be accessed by two categories of persons (members and non-members), which imply two paths on the ECCO website:
1. For persons who are ECCO members, and as such, can access the “Member area” as previously described: they just need to log on the said “Member area”, select a “Past symposiums” sub-menu, and their quality as Member allows them to access the presentations made during any past Symposium, so any “Symposium #n” page (sub-sub-menus for each past symposium).
2. For persons who are not ECCO members, but who attended a given symposium, we want them to be able to access the presentations made during the symposium(s) they attended, and only the one(s) they attended. As a result, on the website, their path to collect the documents is Events > Past Events > Symposium #n > Enter Password for Symposium #n > “Symposium #n” page. For each conference, we will give the password to be used during the conference.
This is the way that the past events are already build. Each event can be password protected (each event with it's own unique password)
CLARIFICATIONS ABOUT PAST EVENT PAGES
In the back office, I created a “Symposium #1” page – Symposium #1 being a past event – to show what we thought a “Past event” page (dedicated to a single past Symposium) would look like. It is available in the “Page” back office menu (and not in the “Event” back office menu)
We can make each past event look the same as the page you created
You will see on that page what we were expecting: basically the list of all the presentations made during that event with links to the presentations themselves. The presentations I did not uploaded were too heavy.
This page is the same whether you access it as an ECCO member (via the Member area – one login and password to access all past events) or as a non-member – via the Past Event menu + “one password for every past event” path.
Right
Please see the following website as a reference: http://www.globaloffset.org/
This website belongs to ECCO’s US counterpart, which also organises many conferences. They have a Member > Members only area, which they most likely use, among others, to post the presentations made during such conferences and that are accessible to their Members at any time.
They also have a Conferences > Past conferences page. Please have a look at that page. For their Spring 2011 conference, the password is “tulips”. You will see how the page looks like.
This is a piece of info that would have helped us a lot on the beginning of the development
THE EVENT TOOL YOU DEVELOPPED
Based on the above, the event tool that you developed was not required, but I think this is actually the specific plug-in you had in mind and that we paid an additional fee for. It should significantly ease the Admin work anyway, provided a couple of improvements are brought (see below).
I will need you to show me, step by step, how to you use it because I could not figure it out by myself. For instance, I did not understand the “Event category” options, or how to link a page developed with the “Event” menu in the back office with an actual page on the website.
ACTIONS
As a result of the above, here is what needs to be done to match our expectations:
1. Create the “Member area”, leading to a “Past Symposiums” submenus and another “Test” submenu at this stage. The “Past Symposiums” submenus should lead to every “Symposium#n” page (see below).
2. Confirm there are enough tools with WordPress at this stage to create user profiles (dedicated to ECCO members).
3. Improve the event tool as follow:
o The documents logos should appear as lists rather than as miniatures – example: OK
This:/ Rather than:
o Fields should be improved as follows: OK
Fields on the back office / Result on the website [example, non exhaustive, and excluding font, format and actual links to documents]Symposium title:
Date:
Location:
Conference material
Document upload box – where I can upload as many documents as needed, only requiring the document title
Forum: [Title]
Document upload box – where I can upload as many documents as needed, requiring the document title, with two optional fields for the author and the author’s organisation
Workshop: [Title]
Document upload box – where I can upload as many documents as needed, requiring the document title, with two optional fields for the author and the author’s organisation / Symposium #1
June 14 and 15, 2011
Paris, France
Conference material
Agenda
Attendee list
Forum: Offsets in India
Understanding and managing cultural differences
Maya Putois
Researcher
Indian Patience and Complications
Claude Lemberger
Grefinter
Workshop on Offsets and International Law
Opening up of international government procurement
Viviane de Beaufort
European Centre for Law and Economics – ESSEC Business School
Offsets and the World Trade Organisation
François Riegert
Permanent representative of France at the WTO
To me these changes are minor as they are mostly about adding new fields, so they might not result in a price increase.
4. Use the event tool to create the “Symposium #1” past event page, using the Symposium #1 page I made as a reference if needed OK
5. Link the “Symposium #1” event with the two paths described above, i.e. the “Member Area” and the “Past Event” page (the latter being password protected). OK
6. Explain me how I should do to do steps 1, 4 and 5 by myself…OK