Recap of November 11, 2014 Meeting

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Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

Managing Media (@mikemueller)
Mike asked for advice on adding sample docs, audio and a video. We all said use kittens!
Child Themes (@liljimmi)
Tracy needs to revise this lesson plan because the change in best practices for Child Themes
Managing Menus (@webtrainingwheels)
Lucy hopes to get started on this soon

New team members and new lesson plans!

Categories vs Tags (@pcosta88)
Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
Managing Widgets (@gdavid0007)

Other Items

Project Status page https://make.wordpress.org/training/getting-started/project-status/
We decided to get rid of the table because it is too much of a pain to keep up to date. @gdavis0007 and @liljimmi updated the Google Doc https://docs.google.com/a/yikesinc.com/spreadsheets/d/1AWYtGfQ0BI0_7qAi50ryLzZGg0MfgMW_9d9CCAXOzWo/edit#gid=0
We couldn’t figure out how to embed the Google Doc on the page. If anyone knows how please paste in comments below. For now we will just link to it.
Proposed lessons pages – @liljimmi turned those into definitions lists and added descriptions for the ones we had. Adding the rest of the descriptions is a great volunteer task if anyone wants to pick it up 😀
Copy editing/Style Guide (@meaganhanes and @bethsoderberg)
Meagan and Beth are going through all of the finished modules to make sure that everything is in line with all of the style guide changes.
@juliekuehl noticed that Exercises and Quizzes were displaying poorly in the right column so we are turning those into strong tags.
Slides
Tracy shared her slide deck for Child Themes and Beth pinged Jan about design.
Recognition/Props
We were all wondering the status on adding Training badges to profiles.
Email address/SupportFlow
Waiting on MX records to make this happen so we can answer contact form submissions.

Michael 9:19 pm on November 17, 2014

To embed a google docs in a post:

Open the doc

Under File – Click “Publish to the web”

Then click the Publish button on that screen and the OK button on the popup.

Click the Embed tab and paste the iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. code to the web page

You may have to add width and height (width=’500′ height=’300′ frameborder=’0′) to the iframe code
- Tracy Levesque 10:13 pm on November 17, 2014
  
  We tried that during the meeting and it was turned into a Googlemaps shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. :-/
  - Michael 12:11 am on November 18, 2014
    
    Strange, I can embed a spreadsheet in a blog post this way.
    
    Make sure you open the doc you want to embed and then click the Publish to the web.

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