[Systems] JT, Mike: following today's IRC meeting, please help with Uruguay race microsite (register Wordpress blog)

[Sebastian Vallejo]

i've just sent a test email article with plain txt and attached image.
i've sent it directly to the new secret wordpress account.
we will test it with the concurso email when its forwarded with the
new secret email.



On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> The priority today is not future events, but tomorrow's event.
>
> We need the workflow to be tested - has a sample article been sent to
> concursorapceibal.info for example?
>
> The site text & graphics need to be improved - best is to inspire from
> PDF "Cronista de la Vuelta Ciclista"'. Do Sebastian and Gabriel have
> access?
>
> Do you know if we will have stats? This was one of the reasons we had
> originally agreed on Wordpress hosting.
>
> The press release goes out on the wire tomorrow morning.
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Mike DeVine <pixelshredder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, I was off the grid most of yesterday afternoon- but here's my input:
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:22 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 21:42 -0400, JT Mengel wrote:
>>>> 1. Set up email blogging :: This was handled straight out of the
>>>> WP.com interface, I anticipate this will be a different kind of animal
>>>> on a private server.
>>>
>>> Done. But, posts still go into the Preview (Programada) status rather
>>> than Published (Publicada). We're working on it.
>>>
>>> We should not publish the email address to post new articles anywhere as
>>> it could be abused by spammers. Who should have it?
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2. New Banner / Theming :: This was not changed by myself but I am
>>>> certain this can happen through the admin settings without too much
>>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Currently we only have one theme, the default one. Which one(s) shall we
>>> install?
>>
>> Well one of the sticking points about the premium services/.org issue was that with a paid upgrade or a .org setup on our server, we can create a theme and template to apply to any future event sites we make on Wordpress. I was under the impression from last weekend's meeting that this was what you guys wanted, and was ready to make it until I realized our current free .com setup wouldn't support it. But it sounds like it's a moot point for the bike race site; should JT and I go ahead and put up a new wordpress.org on the Sugar site and get cracking on a microsite theme/template for it, so we'll be ready for future events?
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3. Spanish as the default language :: earlier I learned that the
>>>> feature I utilized to easily change the site's default lang. from
>>>> English to Spanish is only available in WP.com - new solution will
>>>> likely be a multilingual Plugin we install on the SL.org server.
>>>
>>> Ok, we figured this part out.
>>> --
>>> Bernie Innocenti
>>> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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