SLA 2012 Operation Vitality Meetup

“Operation Vitality” Meetup July 18, 2012

Agenda• Introductions• Operation Vitality• HostGator• Wordpress• Wordpress theme for SLA• Wordpress Security• SLA’s Technology Advisory Council• Community Building• Open Q & A/Show & Share

Introductions• Name• Primary Chapter/Division• Webmaster experience• WP experience

“Operation Vitality” “a healthy capacity for vigorous activity”

Objectives of OV1. Provide a stable and modern website hosting service to all chapters, divisions, and caucuses;2. Make the service affordable and cost effective for the Association;3. Design a brand compliant template for all units;4. Promote a common content management system we can all use, understand and build upon by developing our own tools; and5. Rebuild SLAs webmaster community.

HostGator• Award Winning Support – 24/7/365 Technical Support via Phone, Live Chat, and Ticket System – Automatic Weekly Off-Site Data Backups – 24/7/365 Server Monitoring – Online Support Portal with over 500+ Video Tutorials and 680+ Help Articles – HostGator Community Forum Access• Green Web Hosting – Texas Wind Energy helps offset server emissions – Climate Friendly and Wind Powered – Purchase certified Renewable Energy Credits

Hosting Features• SLA Theme included • Easy to Use and• Unlimited Email Flexible Control Accounts, Mail Panel Forwards, and Email • 99.9% Uptime Aliases Guarantee!• Unlimited MySQL • Disk space: 1GB Databases (with • Bandwidth: 100MB phpMyAdmin) and • Domains: 1 FTP

Advanced Features• Programming Languages: CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python• Programming Modules: Curl, CPAN, GD Library, Image Magick• System Management: SSH Access and Cron Job Scheduling

WordPress• Used by over 29 • Cross-blog million people communication tools• Full W3C standards • Spam protection compliance • User registration• Posts and Pages • Password Protection• Themes (i.e. skins) • Easy Importing• Commenting system • Workflow (drafts, etc.)• Multi-lingual and Multiple authors

WordPress Theme for SLA• Two optional • 8 color schemes navigation menus • Search engine• “Widgetized” sidebar optimization tool• Optional ad spaces • Google Analytics and• Optional slider and Feedburner video player module • Designed to be for the homepage modern, clean and• 1-column or 2-column brand compliant layout • Up to us to develop!

WordPress Security• The most common attacks against a WordPress usually fall into two categories: – Sending specially-crafted HTTP requests to your server to exploit specific vulnerabilities in old/outdated plugins and software. – Attempting to gain access to your blog by using "brute-force" password guessing.

Basic WP Security• Back up your data! • Use caution with• Always keep up to Plugins that need date with the latest write access version of WordPress • Secure wp-config.php• Use SFTP encryption – move the wp- for FTP config.php file to the directory above your• Change the admin WordPress install password and store it • Any other tips out in a secure area there?

SLA’s Technology Advisory Council• Chair • Six members, two years each. • Members should represent diverse – Stacey Greenwell (2012) geographic and professional• Council Members backgrounds, as well as knowledge or an interest in information technology – Rod Bustos (2012-2013) in the profession. – Molly Dinneen (2012-2013) • One member of the Council will be the – Christian Gray (2012-2013) Chief Technology Officer. – Daniel Lee (2012) • The Board liaison should be one of the two board members of the – Chris Miller (2012-2013) Finance Committee.• Board Liaison • The council will advise the Chief – Hal Kirkwood Technology Officer at a strategic level on technology improvements,• Staff Council Member including the prioritization for – Quan Logan budgeting purposes.

Community Building• Webmaster Wiki • Need help:• Discussion List – Theme Development – Plugin Development – Community Building – Training – Reinvigorating DL (SLAWEB@lists.sla.or g)

Resources• Webmaster Wiki • Recommended Plugins – http://wiki.sla.org/display/w – http://wiki.sla.org/display/w ebmasters/Home ebmasters/Recommended• Webmaster List +Plugins – SLAWEB@lists.sla.org • Report a bug• Discussion Forums – http://wiki.sla.org/display/w – http://wiki.sla.org/display/w ebmasters/Report+a+bug ebmasters/Discussion+For • Wish List ums – http://wiki.sla.org/display/w• WordPress Lessons ebmasters/Wish+List – http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_Lessons

Q & A/Show & Share!• The floor is open!• Questions?• Want to show off something you’ve done with your unit site?

The OV Super Admin Team• VOLUNTEERS: • SLA STAFF: – John DiGilio – Quan Logan – Lassana Magassa – Linda Broussard – Jamal Cromity – Jeff Leach – Nicole Engard – Daniel Lee

Thank you! Daniel P. Lee danielplee@sympatico.ca @yankeeincanada

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