2025-12-10 Meeting

Meeting Overview

  • Final Web D2 club meeting of 2025 focused on WordPress site setup and content creation
  • Topics covered included WordPress updates, user management, and creating content
  • Demonstrated how to update WordPress and add users with appropriate permission levels
  • Created a sample blog post about semantic versioning with visual elements

WordPress Updates

  • Successfully updated WordPress from version 6.7.2 to 6.9
  • Updated all themes and plugins before the main WordPress update
  • Explained semantic versioning: major.minor.patch numbering system
    • Major version (first number): potential breaking changes
    • Minor version (second number): new features, backward compatible
    • Patch version (third number): bug fixes, always safe to update
  • Discussed that WordPress 7.0 (major update) is expected soon in spring 2026

User Management

  • Set up user accounts with contributor permissions for club members
  • Explained WordPress permission levels :
    • Administrator: full permissions to do anything
    • Editor: can edit all content but can’t install plugins or create users
    • Author: can create and publish their own content
    • Contributor: can create content but needs approval to publish
    • Subscriber: limited permissions, primarily for commenting
  • Created accounts for several members including Pedro and April
  • Some email invites weren’t being received – may be in spam/junk folders

Content Creation Demonstration

  • Created a sample post about semantic versioning
  • Demonstrated the contributor workflow – creating content that requires admin approval
  • Showed how to use the WordPress editor, which supports Markdown shortcuts
  • Added an image to enhance the post
  • Demonstrated proper use of alt text – noting when images are purely decorative
  • Added Mermaid diagram code to visualize semantic versioning decision flow

Additional Discussion

  • Brief conversation about DECA, another club focusing on business and accounting
  • Discussed the value of blogging for learning and portfolio building
  • Mentioned that diagrams are valuable for visualizing concepts

Action Items

  • [ ] Robert to send an email in early January to schedule next meeting
  • [ ] Consider Tuesday/Thursday options for meetings instead of Wednesday based on members’ class schedules
  • [ ] Follow up on WordPress account emails that weren’t received
  • [ ] Robert to check if students have access to the university’s spam filter system