The status of the development for the Village Hall Website
tempusfugit.me.uk is no longer the webmaster of the Village Hall website. The ownership has been transferred to a Village Hall Committee member.
April 2023
The domain registration for belchampwaltervillagehall.co.uk is set to expire 21 Feb 2024.
The domain was registered through TSOHost (by Wordpress.com). The person that is on the domain registration is not known.
April 2024
Apparently the new owner of the Village Hall website has claimed that they have reinstated the domain belchampwaltervillagehall.co.uk.
October 2020 - ( October 2023 )
I did a lot of work for both the Parish Council website and the Village Hall. I initially wanted to re-write the Village Hall website using all my own code, but I decided that this was not needed or apreciated even though I made my new pages look and feel like what I redesigned under Wordpress.
The Wordpress.com interface is now used exclusively (was - 2023) to maintain the Village Hall website. Having spent much time on php forms and email configuration I now feel that it is best to leave it to Wordpress. I am also trying to do all the maintenance on the VH website on the iPad, this is a challenge in some instances.
( It took 3 years for it to be noticed that the VH website was not working! )
Booking forms
I removed the php files (as listed on vh_forms.html) from bwvh.uk, so they would not be hacked. The code can be found in the BWVH directory.
The Wordpress booking form is still live but it is not linked into the menu system. This was done because of the Covid Crisis.
Setting Home Page link Dynamically - The pages on bwvh.uk that still exist set the Home Page Link to the Wordpress home page. Under my new regime I need to change this just in case the pages are found - or do I?
I also did quite a bit of work on email configuration and how various email providers, gMail, Microsoft and BT, handle their mail.
The code for the mailers is also to be found in the BWVH directory. The code to validate input
During the debugging of the php scripts for the forms on the Village Hall website I found a problem with ACME Challenges
March 2022
The Wordpress subscription has expired again. Seeing all that has gone on relating to the Village Hall and the website specifically I am not inclined to renew the subscription. In any case I don't think anyone will notice!
Wordpress.com are now sending me emails telling me that visitors to the domain mapping will no longer see my site. This did not happen last time that it lapsed. Not that it wouldn't be a good thing.
They say it will be "alive" for a few more days. We shall see. I think that what happens is that I can still see it if I am logged into my account. That is why I was not see the advertisements that I was harangued about last time.
The site has been scaled down considerably since the time it was used to make a booking for hall rental. The contact form has been withdrawn and it was that which was used when all the complaints about the intrusive advertising were made. I was in the process of re-writing the booking forms - I have long since abandoned that endeavour.
Poking around the Wordpress user interface, a thankless task at the best of times, I do see that I should be able to access the site using belchampwaltervillagehall.wordpress.com. The mapping of belchampwaltervillagehal.co.uk is no longer being mapped but is shown as the website address. I could find no way to change this.
I raised a help-desk ticket with wordpress.com - the response was no help!
Wordpress have changed this since the subscription expired last time. Quite frankly I don't think that is worth renewing as for what they want I can do it for free. Sure the website address will have to change and if they (the Village Hall Committee) really want a website, then the site can be refined.
The belchampwaltervillagehall.co.uk Domain
The renewal of belchampwaltervillagehall.co.uk and the existance of belchampwaltervillagehall.wordpress.com
Nobody has asked questions about this.