Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society

Introducing the New and Improved Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society website at www.ttcs.tt

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The hosting of TTCS’s website at https://ttcs.tt is done using Amazon Lightsail which is a Virtual private server, meaning it’s like a virtual machine which you have full control (and therefore maintenance!) of the operating system, web server, database server, runtime environment, the Content Management System and the content to go with the website. 

One of the things to be done was the update of the hosting server as it was based on the previous Ubuntu LTS release which ended support in April 2025, running the AMP stack (Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP ). We used WordPress as the Content Management System and the (now previous) TTCS website was using the Koji Theme 

Koji

which shows blog posts in a card based UI which I liked.

This Koji theme was developed in 2017-2018. Since then WordPress itself has undergone changes internally which a switch from the classic editor which was used to create WordPress content and themes to the Gutenberg Block Editor allowing users to build and design websites using modular blocks for text, images and other content.

So the server content was backed up, and a new server was setup to host the TTCS website at https://www.ttcs.tt and the TTCS OSSWIN online site at https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt . The server will also be hosting other websites (more on this at a later time)

After content was imported, I took the default WordPress theme Twenty Twenty Five and tried to come up with a card based UI similar to the Koji theme and to learn more about the Gutenberg editor.

The result is what you see at https://ttcs.tt .

The navigation of the sites was also changed with pages dedicated to :

Also, all of the 912 posts done over the 20+ years were edited to match the new block editor and adding featured images to these posts.

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