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Folks, <br>
TriEmbed has a new home on the Internet. The <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://triembed.org">http://triembed.org</a>
URL redirects to a Wordpress site now, which is a combination of web
pages and a "web log posting" mechanism (via the "Posts" link) with
support for arbitrary comment chains. I've copied the old content in
and defined a few posting categories, etc. <br>
Several of you got mail giving you accounts with "siteauthor" <a
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">roles</a>.
This custom role has more privilege than "author" to allow creating
web pages as well as postings, but less than "editor", so you're
constrained to operate only on stuff you've created. Feel free to
log in and try things out.<br>
If I forgot or messed up the "initial list" I gathered last month
(and which I extended a bit), my apologies. You're starting out with
a randomly generated password. Feel free to change it to something
easier to manage, but select one judged by Wordpress to be "strong".
Apart from staying polite and mindful of the children reading this
list and viewing the site, we must keep it secure. The ISP for my
personal domains and I have a happy relationship approaching its
15th birthday, but he's a stickler about security. This site uses
Akismet, Wordfence, and limited login plugins to keep the garbage at
arm's length, but Wordpress sites are periodically BOMBARDED with
high frequency breakin attempts as vulnerabilities are found and
fixed. OK, I'm sure we're clear about that.<br>
If you just want to be able to log in and comment without the
hassle of your comment going through the moderation process except
the first tie, say the word (including your desired username) and
I'll give you a "subscriber" account with a minimum of fuss. Your
first comment will block for moderation, but after being approved
you'll be able to comment freely.<br>
If you'd like to create content but want help deciding if it
should be published (or any other kind of help), request a
"contributor" role.<br>
I'm willing for anybody receiving this email msg from the list to
have an account on the site. The type of account you can have
relates to how well we know you and can trust you. Referencing a URL
or three in the <a
href="http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/">mail
archive</a>, reminding me (or the list: your choice) of roughly
when you last attended a meeting, etc, will help (I knew those
sign-in sheets NCSU requires us to keep might have some use some
day!) Just drop me or the list a line with your full name, desired
username and what role you'd like to start with and I or another
admin will take it from there.<br>
I'm happy to upgrade you to editor if you'd like to help develop
the site beyond adding content (e.g. helping me fix foulups that
step on accepted Wordpress best practice). And if you'd like to
share admin duties, please send me private email so we can discuss
it (and thanks in advance!)<br>
If there's interest at the August NCSU meeting I'll fumble my way
through a short training session, with any and all help welcome. <br>
We can make either the "posts" or "home" (web) page the default
page for the site as we get a feel for what would be most useful.<br>
This site is automatically backed up once a week, with a "ring
buffer" of four backups. <br>
(Thanks to Gayathri Jegan Mohan for showing me how Chrome incognito
windows can be used to be on the same site with multiple identities.
This saved me a lot of time!)<br>
-Pete<br>
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