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In order to let the new volunteer team for the upcoming web site to do some testing, I created a new "test" area with WordPress, currently at http://news.slcds.info/ Pretty much everybody who is on this thread (and who was at the meeting last Sunday) was added as Super Administrator, so you're welcome to completely destroy everything 
(yes, it's just a test site!!!)
It's a WordPress Multisite installation, so feel free to add your own sub-sites and change them at will. Or if you prefer to tweak the "main" site, you're welcome to destroy it at will There are no limits whatsoever (no limit in number of sites, disk space used, or bandwidth consumed) so you're most welcome to really, really test it out as you wish. Feel free to upload themes, plugins, and so forth: it should be good for the upcoming meeting to show/demonstrate some of the ideas presented on the past meeting and say, "this is what I had in mind". Thanks to Media-on-a-Prim we can even rezz a few prims with different designs and see what we're talking about
The only limit is that the server is a shared one, and thus usually more heavilly loaded during PST hours. This results in a lot of errors, because the hosting provider "kills" every process that reaches a certain memory limit, so you might need to refresh some pages if you get an error. It's a pain, I know, specially when testing out things, but it's what we got. Viewers of the site that aren't logged in tend to see far less errors, because there is Cloudflare in front of the *.slcds.info domain, so they get cached pages instead. But when you're logged in, the cache is not active (deliberately so), and all changes will hit the main server, and, as it consumes memory, it will kill processes...
For the more technically-minded, this is a very tricky installation Not only it's Multisite, but it also has Domain Mapping enabled — which allows, in the future, to redirect addresses so that they're all managed under a single interface. I.e. imagine that the New Guild decides they wish to re-use newguild.slcds.info again. Currently, this site has its own admins, its own setup, and is separately updated and maintained. A pain to remember all those passwords! But a new sub-site can be created under this WP Multisite setup, and with the domain mapping plugin, newguild.slcds.info will just point to a sub-site. Now all users are the same, all plugins and templates are centrally managed, and so forth. (This also works for domain names not under *.slcds.info, e.g. neufreistadt.info could also point to it). This is naturally very cool but makes the configuration tricky!
The cache system is W3 Total Cache. It's also tricky to configure, so right now it's just activated on the "main" site. The reason I like W3 Total Cache is because it works directly with Cloudflare. The main disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of memory and so it might actually give more errors 
Again, the problem is only with logged in users; "normal" viewers will rarely have an issue (Cloudflare is very clever: if the main server gives an error, it will just serve the user a cached page while it patiently waits until the main server recovers again).
I've added a lot of common plugins to interface with Twitter, Facebook and so forth. Many will require configuration and some extra styling. For example, the "sharing" buttons have lost their styling (I don't know why!) using the template I've just placed on http://news.slcds.info/ (Essence, which is a framework I like). I guess that by changing the template the styling will work again, I haven't tested.
A mosty "uncommon" plugin is the one interfacing with MyBB. You can see it in action in http://news.slcds.info/forum/. Well... it's not really an "interface". It's a whole new MyBB installation, but running inside WordPress! Since it's a new installation, it's empty. And, of course, it lacks a lot of styling. But it works! It's a bit weird, to be honest, and not exactly what I had in mind. If I have some patience, I can try to upload a "full" database (i.e. the one currently running under http://forum.slcds.info) and see how it looks — and how the users are handled, which is what I'm most interested in. For now, well, it's more like a "nice thing to see" but not very useful — at least in my opinion. There are more "integration plugins" with MyBB which I might test out some other day.
If someone else wants to have a login, let me know!
