[Lewis]

Hi all,

Hope you’ve had a relaxing Christmas week and Santa was kind! Otherwise, if you weren’t good and got a lump of coal it’s not all bad, nothing better than the real thing pulverised to replicate coal at scale for your CBs and CCs…

Few updates on the website:

Membership renewals – we’ve had a few cases where people haven’t renewed due to being unable to sign in, and it has transpired that they didn’t have user accounts set up on the new website. When thejournal.nz went live, we imported all current subscribers as at April 2024. So if your membership wasn’t current then, no user account was created for you. It isn’t too hard to create a user account on the new website, the only part which may cause issues is the membership number. The new website doesn’t require a membership number as such, but it is required for archive access. If you’re a former member and are creating a new account, please contact myself (lewis@lewisholden.co.nz) or Alan Curtis (guildsec@nzmrg.org.nz) and we can help you through the process.

If you do have a user account, we’ve also had a guide created for renewing your membership here: How to Reactivate Your Account and Pay Your Membership Fee – NZ Model Railway Guild

This is especially important if you want to receive the next Journal in print, scheduled in March. For those wondering, the Journal in print will not simply republish articles from the Journal online – it will be all new content.

Comments on posts

I’ve had a bit of feedback on the inability to edit comments when they are on a “post”, i.e. content for the Journal online. This is a limitation of WordPress, which is the platform our website is built on. Basically, the website consists of different modules which unfortunately aren’t always standardised, and more often than we’d like conflict with one another (see the password reset issues we had initially).

There is a way to make comments editable for posts, and potentially be able to add images or emojis. However, it requires adding a plug-in (additional code that allows the functionality and define user roles/security profiles). I would prefer not to add more plug-ins without first being confident I can roll-back changes, which means I need to be confident in the website’s back-ups and restore process. This won’t happen until the new year.

Speaking of which, happy new year!

Cheers,

Lewis

thejournal.nz

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