Ok here is my attempt at creating a guide for all of you to get started with porting over Articles, if you note any missing steps please reply below.
Step 1: Sign up for an account on
www.caymanclub.net it does not need to be a paying Member account, in fact I will flag your account as a Member account after you create it. Once you create your account please email me your username and email address that you used to create the account (can be the same as here on Planet-9 if you want) so that I can find your account and give you author access to the site so that you can create Posts/Articles. You can email me at webmaster at planet-9.com or send me a private message here, whatever works.
Step 2: Visit the Wayback machine and find the old Planet 9 Article Index, the URL is shown in this photo and an example URL is:
Main Index - Articles this will let you figure out which category you want to work within. I don't care if each person chooses a specific category or if you choose to go alphabetical but please post here what you are deciding to work on just so that we don't get people duplicating efforts and copying the same article more than once.
Step 3: Visit the
www.caymanclub.net site and click on Articles and you should see something like this: (I've since added a test article that I worked on for these instructions) At the top of the page you should have a black bar header if you are logged into the site and your header will have options (once I've set your account up as an editor from Step 1 above). Your choices will likely differ from mine since I am an admin, but you should have a + Plus sign that if you click on will have a drop down menu and you will want to choose New Post from that drop down menu.
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Step 4: When you click on +New and choose Post from the drop down menu you will be taken to the Word Press default Post (Article) editor shown below. Familiarize yourself with the editor. You should NOT ever change anything below the main text entry box. You WILL need to make selections from the column on the right, most notably the Category selection and the Featured Image selection as well as you may choose to use the Preview button or Save Draft button and at some point you will need to use the Publish button to actually publish the article.
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Step 5: Next you will need to visit an old article in the Wayback machine website so that you can copy it to the new editor and have it show up on the Cayman Club website. In my case I chose a Cayman Cosmetic Modification article about some JTEC tail lights. Sadly when we copy these over these article are going to show up under our own usernames on Cayman Club website because not all the same people have accounts on both. I try to give credit at the end of the article that the original author is XYZ person and maybe a link to their profile over on P9 in case someone wants to contact them. Notice that the Word Press editor we will be working in has a list of Categories that matches those found on the old Articles section of P9 with the exception that I have not created any for 911, Macan or Panamera articles because we had so few it didn't seem to make sense. When you look at the old article copy on the Wayback machine you will need to note the Category it is in, and the title of the Article because those we will be copying to the new editor to show up on the Cayman Club site.
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As far as I can tell the thumbnail images at the top of the article were NOT saved by the Wayback machine in full size unless they also appeared in the BODY of the article. Some articles will have these thumbnails at the top others will not, but again we probably cannot do anything about it if they show up at the top and NOT in the body, those images may be lost forever unless someone can come up with a way to retrieve them. Scrolling down we get to the lower section of the old Article:
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Here is where you will copy/paste the body text from the old article to the new article editor, as well as any images that are embedded inline in the article need to be saved to your local PC and then uploaded to the media library of the new site so they can be embedded in the new article. In the screen capture above I have right clicked on the image of the box and bubble wrap and chosen to save a copy of the image to my local computer. You will want to do this for any/all images you find in the body of the old article. There are some old articles that linked to images outside of Planet 9, for example in some photo hosting service. If the Wayback machine was able to grab them they will show up, otherwise you will get a broken image icon and again there is likely no way to get that image back short of contacting the original author to see if they still have it. I typically put in some text like "IMAGE MISSING HERE CONTACT ARTICLE AUTHOR" and then again put a link at the end of the article to the original author's profile on Planet 9 so anyone reading the article can try to contact that author. If you want to spend the time contacting the person and running down any missing photos, again feel free, but certainly not a requirement. Maybe after all articles are moved over we can spend time reaching out to people to try and fix any missing items.
Step 6: Copy the old Article to the new Word Press editor on CaymanClub.Net website. In the image below I have copied the first few paragraphs of text from the old Wayback machine article to the new editor. I simply highlighted the old text and selected copy, then click in the new editor and selected Paste. After doing so it sometimes inserts additional blank lines between paragraphs so I had to manually delete those extra lines so the article looks better. Note that I ONLY highlighted TEXT to copy and paste. What about the image of the box and bubble wrap? To add photos click on the Add Media button that I have highlighted in the following image.
Notice that over on the right column I have also selected Cayman Cosmetic Mods from the Category list and I have also filled in the title of the Article by copy pasting the title from the old site to the new editor. When you click on Add Media you will get a pop up window with some choices shown below:
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By default the pop up window is showing you the media library, all of the files that have been uploaded to the site, although you can filter that in a variety of ways. You will want to choose the Upload Files link near the top that I have highlighted. When you select that link the view of the pop up box will change. You will be given the choice to drag and drop files (photos for example) to a box or simple click to select them from your computer. In my case I selected the 1 photo of the box and bubble wrap that I had previously downloaded from the Wayback machine site as depicted previously in these instructions. You can select multiple photos and they will all upload at once. In my case I selected only one and after it uploaded I am presented with the following pop up window:
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Notice that the photo I uploaded is now shown in the Media Library and has a check mark over the top right corner. In the right hand column is information about the photo. My suggestion is that you look at the right hand column and scroll down to an area I didn't capture and from a couple of the selection boxes choose a medium size thumbnail (small is default) and have it link to the actual full size file in the media library. I forgot to do this before I clicked INSERT INTO POST, so I will show you how to "fix" this after the fact in case you forget. Please note that when you click INSERT INTO POST it will insert the photo wherever your cursor is in the article so make sure you have your cursor where you want your photo before you click Add media and Insert one.
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In order to edit a photo you have already inserted (see how it inserted a small thumbnail by default) you click on the photo itself and you will get a pop up menu bar at the top of the photo. Click the Pencil to Edit the photo as shown where I have circled it in red above. You will then get the following pop up window to allow you to edit the photo:
From here you can make a lot of changes to your image file. The only 2 items I changed was to change Size to Medium and change Link to to Media File from the drop down choices available. Then I simply clicked Update and it updated the photo in the article itself. There may be situations where you want to add caption text or change alignment to match prior articles but I will leave that up to each person to experiment with on their own. Once I made the changes I clicked Update.
Looks like I can only attach 10 images so I will start a new post to continue this tutorial.
