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WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:28 am

Folks,

Our website appears to be fubar'd. Its built using wordpress but the installation has either been hacked or corrupted. The landing page does not display correctly and it is no longer possible to logon to the wordpress control panel. We are overdue for a refresh anyway.

Can we roundup a volunteer to build a new website? I don't think it needs to be as sophisticated as the current website. It looks like we may need to wipe out the existing wordpress install and start from scratch. Personally, I don't care what technology is used. Could be wordpress again or ??? I'd say the bare minimum is to stand up a new landing page that displays our mission, contact info, and links to member club sites. Everything else is gravy.

Who's the lucky one?????
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Scott Hatch » Fri Jun 12, 2015 8:51 am

Have you reached out to Jay? He worked with the previous company to set up this platform.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:43 am

Scott Hatch wrote:Have you reached out to Jay? He worked with the previous company to set up this platform.

Yes, I have been in touch with Jay. He tried to get some support from the company a while ago but it did not work out well due to personnel changes and other factors. I'm sure we could get any company specializing in web development to do something for a fee. And we might need to go that route. That said, I think anybody with experience should be able to whip up a minimalist web site in less than a day. It would be great to have a volunteer step up to the plate.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Scott Hatch » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:32 pm

Has the platform been compromised or is that still viable?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:05 pm

I don't know. Its definitely not possible to logon through the front end. We will need to logon through the hosting provider and manually muck around with the installation to figure out what is going on.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Paul » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:47 pm

FYI: In April of 2011 we paid $1662.11 to have AndPlus Design redo our website.
Guy that used to do stuff a long long time ago.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:54 pm

Still looking . . . surely 1 of our 900 members can volunteer to whip up a basic web site . . .
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby nakashige » Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:30 pm

eric do we have the content for the site written?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:39 pm

nakashige wrote:eric do we have the content for the site written?

No but we can reuse from existing site. I can also help write content.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Rafikie » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:58 pm

I can volunteer to piss and moan when the site doesn't function properly
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby nakashige » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:50 pm

Let me pull something together give me a week or so!! What was on the front page?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:48 am

Some photos. Not sure if it was an animated gif or some script cycling through an album.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Thu Jul 16, 2015 6:34 am

Any luck?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Scott Hatch » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:52 am

I'm not sure if we can afford this (Paul?) with the upcoming potential purchase and costs but this is why we elected to hire a company to do it for us....
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Levad » Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:41 am

Please pardon my barging in, where are you/we at with this?
Has anyone looked at the Wordpress MySQL tables on your host to see if the Wordpress Admin Account login/password can be set anew?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:35 am

Levad wrote:Please pardon my barging in, where are you/we at with this?
Has anyone looked at the Wordpress MySQL tables on your host to see if the Wordpress Admin Account login/password can be set anew?

No. Sounds like you know something. I will send you info to logon to the host
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Levad » Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:05 pm

Eric wrote:
Levad wrote:Please pardon my barging in, where are you/we at with this?
Has anyone looked at the Wordpress MySQL tables on your host to see if the Wordpress Admin Account login/password can be set anew?

No. Sounds like you know something. I will send you info to logon to the host


Thank you, sir. Further discussion of this process will be sent to you via PM.

When the account access problem is resolved I'll let Eric know first then post back here so you people viewing this are updated as to progress.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Levad » Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:02 pm

UPDATE: (WP Access Resolved)
Eric has a PM that includes a UN/PW for a Wordpress Admin account I created for him.
He will disperse any further information as he wishes.

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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Rafikie » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:18 pm

I don't understand what that jargon means but sounds like a fix :hello: :hello: :hello:
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby axle » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:42 am

x2 lol
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Tue Sep 08, 2015 2:27 pm

x3.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Levad » Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:20 pm

Looks like you were are using a plug-in called wp-members that may have been outdated. I tryed to update it and the Home Page is messed up. I'm working to repair it.
Sorry, I'll get it back as soon as possible.

-Things are back. Been PMing w/Eric so he has the details.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby bass4runner » Fri Sep 11, 2015 8:16 pm

Thanks Dave :up:
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:29 pm

Five months, no volunteer.

I guess its time to spend some money. . .
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby measty » Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:28 pm

Eric wrote:Five months, no volunteer.

I guess its time to spend some money. . .


I thought someone volunteered at the August meeting at Field and Forest?

I volunteered to update content at the May meeting but i was waiting for the website to be fixed. Did I miss something?
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby Eric » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:34 pm

Nothing happened.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby howler4x4 » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:45 pm

If you don't have access, I suggest an officer contact andplus asking for all access points, i.e. usernames & passwords that they have. They don't owe you anything, but on the other hand they are morally, if not legally, obligated to provide you access to your web.

andplus
508-425-7533
1881 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701
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I think I can help you out IF you can give me access.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby howler4x4 » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:53 pm

By the way, LIOR President Jake asked for a volunteer.
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Re: WANTED: Web development volunteer

Postby howler4x4 » Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:27 pm

I made a change that Eric requested and made a couple of obvious testing changes. I sent my findings and suggestions to Eric.
Technically at least, you are in OK shape.
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