This is a running log of the additions and changes to thevoiceofeou.com. Each new log entry is on a new line. Please describe the change or update that has been made, note the date, and who made the change. DO NOT PUBLISH or MAKE THIS PAGE PUBLIC! SAVE DRAFT, ONLY.
11/17/23 – Site installed and hosting at godaddy with a two year subscription for hosting and the domain names voiceofeou.com and thevoiceofeou.com. Hosting will need to me renewed after two years, before 11/15/25. Renewal notices sent to kroy@eou.edu. – KR
11/17/23 – Activated One News theme. – KR
11/20/23 – Activated plugin LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder and put the site into “maintenance mode.” Only admin and reporters have access to the backend functionality (creating/editing posts) in maintenance mode through the login gateway. https://thevoiceofeou.com/wp-login.php
11/24/23 – “User Role Editor” plugin installed and roles created, “Reporter” and “Archived” – KR
11/26/23 – Roles created: Faculty, Editor-in-chief, Copy editor, Photographer, Social media manager, and Web Technician.
Categories created: Brights, Features, Sports, Interviews, Podcasts, David’s Corner, and EOU Community
User Accounts Created: Amanda Szeliga, Annika Hodges, David Forde, Hannah Pulliam, Kyndra Nelson, and Logan Flynn – NM
11/28/23 – Edits to the Home Page: Site Identity (logo set), Categories set in place on website’s header. – NM
11/30/23 – Changes to the Home Page Design, Migration of Old Articles from the previous Voice Website – NM
12/18/23 – Changes to the Home Page functionality. Established a “query loop” on the masthead block so that “Featured” and “EOU Campus” post categories will be displayed as the masthead at the top of front page. – KR
12/18/23 – Configured the masthead for an example. See video for detailed instruction on query loops.– KR
12/20/23 – All reporters (users) migrated from the old Voice website on the EOU servers. – KR
12/23/23 – Worked on and organized the masthead layout to figure out how to rotate content to and from the masthead. Added the section “On Campus” to further experiment with “query loop” and “sticky” posts to “feature” certain posts on the home page. – KR
12/27/23 – Set posts to proper categories. – NM
12/27/23 – Made changes to the home page for the website. Made the join our team option in the header (quick link to page). I also set the social link contacts to proper outside social profiles. – NM
1/11/24 – Layout changes. Problems with masthead. Solution just one image. Revised the arts @ EOUcsection and added a query loop to display arts, theatre, music. Added new category “Fine Art.” Added Facetime @ EOU for interviews. Continued to prune categories. Added additional section for advertising banner on the right of the layout. Added and sized “Read More” block. – KR
1/11/24 – Minor changes to website home page: setting blocks accordingly so there are no unconventional open spaces, creating lists for easier access, and setting all the proper social buttons. – NM
1/12/24 – Revised social icons in the main body of the layout. (links not added). Added “archive” block, set to months. Created “Sponsors” header block – KR
1/13/24 – Added the “Sports” section on the front page. Made som ebackground color changes and revised the footer. – KR
1/16/24 – Voice logo added to footer. Added David’s Corner. – KR
1/18/24 – Created a basic layout template for a “Features” page. – KR
1/19/24 – Created a pattern for the social media icons.. Find it in the theme editor > Patterns > Uncategorized. It’s called “Socials.” Added plugin “Query Load More Block by GutenbergHub.” This allows for the “Display more” button on the “Features” page. Added ⌂ icon back to homepage link. – KR
1/21/24 – Created pages for the categories “Arts and Culture”. In the websites header there is now a drop-down menu for the “Arts and Culture” subcategories. Changes made to the draft page “Sandbox” (a rough sketch on what the layout for the Arts and Culture category page.) Main focus was having all of the query loops functional with links to each subcategory. -NM
1/25/24 – Completed layout for “Features” page. NOTE: In order to get layouts correct. make sure that when a “group” block is containing main layout elements, the “inner blocks use content width” under the “layout” heading is turned on and “content” and “wide” are set to 1170. This will ensure each page layout is consistent with regard to the width of each page. – KR
1/26/24 – “Sports” template added. – KR
1/26/24 – Category archive pages are now not displaying. Used code below. However, links to pages will now need to be added manually to the menus and sub menus. As of 1/28/24 code below has been commented out i.e. it’s no longer preventing category archives from displaying.
https://wpadminify.com/kb/how-to-disable-category-archives-pages-in-wordpress – KR
// Remove category archives
add_action('template_redirect', 'jltwp_adminify_remove_archives_category');
function jltwp_adminify_remove_archives_category()
{
if (is_category()){
$target = get_option('siteurl');
$status = '301';
wp_redirect($target, 301);
die();
}
}1/28/24 – How to make templates and make pages. – KR
1/28/24 – Added plugin to allow captions on “featured” images. (Theme does not allow captions.) Add photo credits in “captions” in the media library. Link to plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fsm-custom-featured-image-caption/ – KR
1/29/24 – How to add the most current EOU Sports posts to The Voice. – KR
1/30/24 – Added WordPress TUTORIALS page with video tutorials. – KR
1/30/24 – Installed “Block Visibility” Plugin.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-visibility/ – KR
1/30/24 – Made changes to the Arts and Culture Section.
Created templates and pages for the subcategories – NM
1/30/24 – Combined “FIlm” and “Movie Reviews” subcategories due to insufficient content – NM
2/1/24 – Added “back to top” plugin to display “back to top” link at the bottom of each page. “Contact Us” is now hidden (block visibility) until content can be added. “Sponsor and Donate” page created. Banner updated and linked. “Author” block added to bottom of “Single Post” template. KR
2/2/24 – Socials section now hidden in right try. REASON: Redundant and the social media pages are not updated. Revised the author byline at the bottom of the “single post” template. Modified Campus and Community masthead to display accurately. Query loop still needs to be revised so that when content is added to category, “newest” post is displayed most prominently. – KR
2/10/24 – Refining the layout and display of the homepage (specifically the masthead, offset and category settings, drop down menu.) Also added more categories and worked with permissions to gain access to visibility settings.
2/27/24 – Installed multiple plugins. Advanced Ads (Manage and optimize your ads in WordPress) and Sassy Social Share (Slickest, Simplest and Optimized Social Share buttons.)