WordPress London Meetup is still a baby, with the first Meetup that took place 9 June 2011. Besides the success in attendance it also had a change in name. Starting out as London WordPress Meetup it is now officially WordPress London Meetup group. Clearly a much needed Meetup group for London locals, I am happy to have attended 3 of them so far. The 6th meetup took place Thursday, 20 October 2011—Publishing with WordPress, hosted by the Telegraph.

How the Telegraph use WordPress

First up was Paul Gibbs, core developer of BuddyPress and web developer at Daily Telegraph. That’s right, Telegraph Blogs is powered by WordPress and MyTelegraph is possibly the largest BuddyPress website in the UK. Paul shared some of the plugins they use for the respective websites.

Telegraph Blog plugins:

• Yoast Breadcrumbs (more information at yoast.com)
• WordPress SEO (also by Yoast, more information here)
• Widget Logic (lets you control on which pages widgets appear)
• Unfiltered HTML (gives blog Administrators and Editors the ability to post whatever HTML they want)
• TMG Open Graph (based on the Open Graph plugin for adding additional metadata to webpages to identify them as “social objects”— modified further by the development team at the Telegraph)
• Blackbird Pie (add embedded HTML representations of actual tweets in your blog posts)

MyTelegraph BuddyPress plugins:

• BuddyPress (a social network in a box—more information at BuddyPress.org)
• BuddyPress Groupblog (extends the group functionality by enabling each group to have a single blog associated with it)
• SSO (single sign-on) Integration
• WP Report Posts (puts a link to each posts and pages to report that particluar post or page)
• Yoast Breadcrumbs (more information at yoast.com)
• Sitewide Tags (creates a new blog on your server for all the posts on your site, much like http://wordpress.com/tags/)
• Blackbird Pie (add embedded HTML representations of actual tweets in your blog posts)

WordPress and Web Accessibility: Why it’s Important

Graham Armfield was on for the second talk of the evening. His presentation covered some issues that disabled and elderly users experience with websites. He shared valuable techniques to improve accessibility and why it makes business sense.

Graham’s presentation, WordPress and Web Accessibility, can be viewed at SlideShare.

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I recently redesigned my website and it is also responsive (web design that is fluid and responds to change depending on screen size). It requires me not to just test my website in different browsers, but also on different devices, such as an iPad and anyone’s smartphone I can get my hands on. Spending a lot of time on my phone loading pages made my Google Analytics inaccurate.

I filtered out my personal computer’s IP address. The idea was to find out the IP address of my phone and iPad, it use to connect to the internet, and do the same. Luckily I stumbled across this very useful article by fritteritter on HubPages:

The Simplest Filtering Method to Exclude Traffic from Your Internal Computers in Google Analytics, No IP Address Lookup!

Instead of adding a filter for an IP range in Google Analytics, this article share JavaScript code to paste in the address bar of the website/page that needs to be filtered out.

Basically, I just had to create a filter in Google Analytics to set a unique word. Paste the code with the unique word in the address bar of whichever browser or device I am using to test my website. A popup box with the unique word will appear to indicate it has been sent successfully. This code store the unique word for Google to identify the computer when browsing the website and exclude the ‘hits’ out of Google Analytics.

With no copy and paste option for my Android phone the process was a bit tedious… but after careful touch screening I did get the ‘good to go’ pop-up!

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