Sagamore Hills PTA website

The Sagamore Hills PTA has a website at sagamorehillspta.org to serve the Sagamore Hills Elementary School community. There are other Sagamore websites too. Email the Sagamore Online mailing list to discuss.

It is a Wordpress installation with Dreamhost managed by Vera Kornylak, Dave Barker, and whoever else wants to join in.

To Do

• Look into Wordpress new themeing --Dave (talk) 11:40, 2 February 2013 (EST)
• Link to the Constant Contact provided webpage for weekly newsletters instead of copy & pasting them onto the PTA homepage. --Dave (talk) 11:31, 2 February 2013 (EST)

Started discussion --Dave (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2013 (EST)

• Suggest adding a newsletter signup opportunity to homepage (Contact provides code under Contacts, Grow My Contact List) --Dave (talk) 17:33, 3 February 2013 (EST)
• Remove the ability to leave comments on PTA website pages—the site is not a blog to host discussion, it just disseminates information. Instead, make sure contact information is readily available on all pages. --Dave (talk) 11:16, 2 February 2013 (EST)
• Use prettier urls? See Using Permalinks and the the settings. --Dave (talk) 22:21, 3 February 2013 (EST)

Usage

To try and get a sense of how the PTA website is used, one can use the log account. The reports really aren't that good (says Dave)—you need to look at each month to start to paint a picture.

In 2013-02, Dave looked at months 2012-03 - 2013-01 .

• A single user accounts for about 1/8 of visits—I'm guessing it's Vera doing updates (and AJAX calling a lot?).
• No trend found across months for day of the week activity (Daily Report) (i.e. there's no suggestion people are checking the site on Sunday for Newsletter info)

Top visitors ordered by visits:
2012-03: admin, msn, 3 local, google, 2 local, ?, local
2012-04: admin, 2 ?, foreign, ?, local, google, 2 local, yandex
2012-05: ?, admin, msn, local, foreign, google, ?, 2 local
2012-06: admin, msn, usa, google, usa, yandex, 3 local
2012-07: 2 foreign, msn, 3 local, usa, foreign, usa, local
2012-08: admin, 3 local, foreign, msn, 2 local, ?
2012-09: admin, ?, local, 2 foreign, 3 local, msn, local
2012-10: admin, 2 local, msn, 2 local, ?, google
2012-11: admin, ?, google, 5 local, ?, local
2012-12: admin, ?, 2 foreign, local, google, 2 local, ?, local
2013-01: foreign, admin, local, usa, google, local, foreign, ?

The long term report, reaching back to 2011-07, isn't specific enough to be useful—it doesn't say what pages were accessed or by whom (most traffic is probably bots).

All the data is at //nair-al-saif.dreamhost.com/home/verkor/logs/sagamorehillspta.org (use the server account to access). On 2013-02 there was:

http (& http.18336029)

This is the one we want. Links into /home/_domain_logs/verkor .

http.18336029.bak

Only the month of 2011-07

http.18325727 & http.18327662

Empty

How To

Link to the newsletter

The most recent (and maybe the one before?) weekly Wildcat Update Newsletter should be linked from the Sagamore PTA homepage. Here's how to find the link (URL).

1. Login to the PTA Constant Contact account
2. Find the Email Details page of the email (newsletter) to link to (in Recent Work, or Email)
3. Under Social Sharing, select the date, hover over the icon under Networks, the resulting tooltip will contain the URL (something like: http://conta.cc/UPZ93d)

Accounts

Several accounts are associated with managing the website.

Wordpress

The Wordpress site has a single user, admin, assigned Dave Barker's email address*, with the password known to both him and Vera Kornylak. Most website work will be done using this account by logging into the site.

* Since passwords may be sent to the account email address, it's not appropriate to use the PTA online group email address.

Log

The log account, is used to view website-access statistics generated by Dreamhost's Analog.

Server

If you need access to the server files, check out the server account.

Database

Wordpress uses a database account.