SiteWorks Newsletters

We now produce newsletter updates when there is enough content. We alert registered Web Managers and assistants when they are published.
The Newsletters are PDF documents that open in a new browser tab.

February March 2026

  • SiteWorks software updates
  • Contact log and email delivery
  • Alternative to Local WP
  • Broken external links
  • Drop-ins update

January 2026

  • Exemplar sites
  • Review you Users
  • Image file formats plus avoid PNG
  • u3a Groups and contacts
  • Multiple categories for Events coming soon (may have implications)
  • Drop-ins update

December 2025

  • Exemplar sites sought
  • Logging out quirks
  • Popular plugins and warning
  • Plugin best practice and be aware
  • Tidy up your site administrators
  • WordPress 6.9
  • Welcome to the Team
  • Call for testing volunteers
  • Support over Christmas and New Year

November 2025

  • Survey findings
  • Login protections
  • Display modified date
  • SiteWorks minor fixes
  • Survey findings
  • Login protections
  • Display modified date
  • SiteWorks minor fixes

September/October 2025

  • How we contact you
  • Forms Drop-in Questions and Answers
  • Text as part of images – avoid
  • Minor release for SiteWorks Core

August 2025

  • Oversights
  • Help Desk Ticket etiquette
  • Site maintenance tasks
  • Testing emails on Local WP
  • Media Replace plugin
  • Marquee banner
  • u3a pdf download stats
  • Drop-in Q&A

July 2025

  • Newsletter frequency
  • Forms workshop
  • Popular plugins update
  • Media Library – replacing items
  • Drop-in Q&A

June 2025

  • Documentation
  • Media Library
  • Drop-in Q&A
  • User Group

May 2025

  • User Group
  • How to get help
  • Learning Guides minor updates
  • Administrator email verification
  • Minor update to SiteWorks
  • Drop-in Q&A reminder and dates

April 2025

  • Drop-in Q&A reminder and Easter dates
  • Web Manager User Group
  • Survey to review the SiteWorks project
  • Keeping sites secure
  • WordPress 6.8
  • Map of u3as and sites

March 2025

  • Third Party Plugins
  • Drop-in sessions – moving to 1st and 3rd Monday
  • WordPress 6.8
  • Map of u3as and sites (use u3a.org.uk)

February 2025

  • How we contact you
  • Drop-in sessions – now once a fortnight
  • How to tips
  • Change Board Update
  • Oversights
  • Web Manager’s role

January 2025

  • SiteWorks 2025
  • Drop-in sessions
  • User Group
  • Change Board Update
  • Personal help for new Web Managers
  • The u3a.org.uk Map
  • Images PNG, JPG and HEIC
  • Copyright

December 2024

  • SiteWorks Status – Migrations complete
  • SiteWorks 2025
  • SiteWorks Foundation Editing and Administrator Guides
  • LiteSpeed Cache update
  • Updates deployed
  • Christmas & New Year Shut Down and Support

November 2024

  • SiteWorks Progress 500 and counting
  • Redirection & URL for Trust – reminder
  • WordPress updates
  • Support

October 2024

  • SiteWorks Progress
  • Heading towards 500
  • Site Builder switch off
  • URL Map Updates
  • New How Tos
  • Spell Checking
  • Change Board
  • Setting passwords – a beware
  • Contact email Delivery Failure
  • Team Vacancies
  • Testers Needed

September 2024

  • Progress by the SiteWorks Project Team
  • Training Workbook correction
  • Who Do You Think You Are?
  • Updates – WordPress 6.6
  • Change Board – vacancy