Old Website
The website is hosted by rankenstein (administrative contact: webmaster@rankenste.in) and has a Wordpress installation (admins are User:Eiland, User:Taborda and User:Candid)
Till 2009 the website was static (some old version of the website can be found at [1]) User:Eiland made the first migration to wordpress. On 2012 User:Taborda made some changes on the design (we now use The Clear Line Theme) to make it more customizable without having to be too hard code, some plugins were also activated.
Domain Name registration
joao is paying currently the domain name, that he registered in 2007. It is registered with eNom via Google Apps until 07 Apr 2016
- In 2005 we start having problems with old domain www.thebiketour.net which is now hijacked
- During 2006 tour was possible to have online presence with former domain, but as future good communication with domain owner wasn't foreseeable BT come to a consensus in early 2007 about having a new "online name"
Wordpress website (the main site)
At the moment, the BT site runs on wordpress. The info here is only relevant for administrators of the website.
To become an editor of the website and be able to modify all texts, register yourself at https://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/wp/wp-login.php?action=register, and ask on the Bt-Org list to upgrade your account to the level of an "editor", on which level you can modify all texts.
Only admins have permissions to change the menus (we can, and it's probably wise, to change this) new pages will not appear in the menu while an admin don't add it there (on the backoffice: Appearance->Menus)
facebook (and other social networks) try to get an image and show it as thumbnail when you share a link, to force it to show the correct image User:taborda followed this instructions and add this line on the webpage theme header.php (on sftp /appdata/wordpress/wp-content/themes/biketour_2012/header.php)
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/biketour/2012/05/BT2012logo-social-en-e1337183509611.png" />
to clean facebook cached images for our website go here
WARNING: Adding an img_src share preview image may take away the ability to let users select from various images when sharing your site. This code tells sites which image to chose rather than gives the user some options.
Used Wordpress plugins (or at least the most important)
These plugins were working fine on Wordpress 3.0.5 (bugs fixed manually by ecobytes) and shouldd keep working if it (hopefully) updated to a more recent WP version
Contact Form 7
This plugin helps making forms to interact with website users, it's an alternative to wufoo.com (the service that was being used on last biketours, before 2012)
It's used on the Contact page, the registration and as a hack to bypass https untrusted conection to eyfa's mailling list subscribe
User:Taborda tested it on version 2.3.1 and used it with some other plugins
You can edit the diferent forms on the WP backoffice "Contact" menu, the forms are built on html mixed with an easy CF7 tag syntax.
Contact Form 7 Datepicker
adds a datepicker to the registration form
for the next years, don't forget to change the start day on the plugin settings
it has a problem with the url linking to an non-existing directory...
version tested: 0.7.4
Contact Form 7 to database extension
besides sending an email (the main funcionality of CF7) thisit also saves the form data onto a database (so anyone - with a password - can look at it on the Wordpress backoffice, left side, "Database" under "Contact"
version tested: 2.3
qTranslate
installed to be able to have a multi-language site...patched to show default language when no translation is available
the patch just work if language posts are EMPTY (to empty them you need to go into HTML view and also erase the annoying
that keep on appearing when you edit something on a different language!!)
version tested: 2.5.15 (patched with this: http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1920)
Sub pages widget
used on the right menu to show sub-pages of the current page
version tested: 1.1
Image Widget
allows adding images to sidebars and footers
version tested: 3.2.11
texts
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website, on the 2005 wiki and the 2004 wiki with quite some texts in Czech and German.
i worked on a structure of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.
home help tasks
wordpress
To change the front page between dynamic (showing the latest blog posts) and static (while not on tour, just advertise BT), go to "pages", and edit "Home". Then change the template from that page from "Front page" to "default template" or the other way around. This is an implementation of [2]