Technical Documentation

Hosting

• WPEngine along with the other WP sites (AGDF, HC101, SWF, & TIC).

• Account is owned by “support@alta.org” with Chad as an additional owner via chad@chad-wick.com

• Additional owners can be added, but should be kept limited and secure (2FA, etc) since it’s full access to all accounts, code, databases, etc.

Code Editing

• SFTP accounts are setup separately from the management portal.

• These are unique to each site, not the overall account.

• As of 8/24/2023, only Chad has a personal and secure account and password setup for anything.

Custom Code File Location and Details

• wp-config.php

  • Only used to turn on debugging when necessary

• plugins/impexium/impexium-data.php

  • Custom plugin that contains the code for refreshing re:Members (formerly Impexium) data cache and outputting re:Members (formerly Impexium) data

  • Also does ad pulls

  • These are done via the ALTA.org web site with hidden “fake API” scripts

• plugins/impexium/impexium.php

  • Custom plugin that does the re:Members (formerly Impexium) SSO

  • Deactivated as it’s not being used

• themes/Total-child/functions.php

  • Core functionality, not necessarily tied to re:Members (formerly Impexium) Data

  • Includes ICS file and Schedule output

  • Includes injecting code into template for colors and other features unique to each meeting

• themes/Total-child/ICS.php

  • Public domain code that has the function to export the ICS file for save to Calendar functionality

  • Functions calls this when that’s clicked, passes the values, etc.

• themes/Total-child/admin.js

  • jQuery JavaScript for customizations to the WordPress Admin area

  • Includes the Room list locked to the Meeting set in a Session

• themes/Total-child/custom.js

  • jQuery JavaScript for the front end

  • Includes dealing with Sponsor image proportional sizes and being able to use query strings elsewhere

• themes/Total-child/schedule.js

  • jQuery JavaScript for the schedule functionality

  • Includes the code (slightly modified) that came with the template used for the tabs and accordions

  • Includes the filter buttons and sorting (the query cannot do all the sort levels necessary)

• themes/Total-child/admin.css

  • Adjustments for styles in the WordPress Admin area

• themes/Total-child/style.css

  • Custom styles for color schemes, layout, etc.

• themes/Total-child/schedule-style.css

  • Schedule styles, modified code from the template used

Custom Data Structure & Output

This is entirely managed by the Toolset plugin.

• Post Types

  • Sessions

  • Speakers

• Taxonomies

  • Meetings

  • Rooms

  • Types

  • Tracks

  • Open To

• Custom Fields

  • Sessions

  • Speakers

  • Meetings

  • Tracks

• Views

  • Queries and output loops, often nested, for schedule, speakers, etc.

  • Contains many shortcodes as well, which come from PHP files above.

Redirects

• /

  • goes to https://www.alta.org/events/ via page’s “Theme Settings” Redirect value.

• /one, /springboard, /advocacy

  • Used to be the “next” URL directly, now all will have a year.

  • Redirection plugin sends them to the correct URL, such as “/one2023/”