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* Look into Wordpress new themeing (see also: [[Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes]]) --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 11:40, 2 February 2013 (EST) |
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** Now I'm looking into balancing stock theme capabilities vs customizations, especially things like [https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields custom fields], [https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Post_Types custom post types], and such. --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 10:33, 25 April 2014 (EDT) |
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*** Going to try and keep it simple (, stupid) for now and just have dumb pages manually linking to each other and manually defined navigation --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT) |
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** Possible starting points: [https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentytwelve Twenty Twelve], the default Wordpress theme, supposed to support major Wordpress features (probably the best to [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes child off of]); [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sempress SemPress], semantic goodness; [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/toolbox Toolbox] & [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blankslate BlankSlate], in the raw to start from (almost) scratch --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 16:10, 15 February 2013 (EST) |
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*** With the [http://list.9.0ne.org/archive/sagamore.online/2014-September/000226.html 2014-09 update], using default [https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyfourteen Twenty Fourteen] (with a header image) --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT) |
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* Do some cleanup after the [http://list.9.0ne.org/archive/sagamore.online/2014-September/000226.html Wordpress backend refresh] --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT) |
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** Deleting old media files (and making sure good ones are somewhere on the [[Sagamore Google Drive]] (may already be done)) |
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Revision as of 18:43, 29 April 2017
The Sagamore Hills PTA has a website at sagamorehillspta.org to serve the Sagamore Hills Elementary School community. There are other Sagamore websites too.
See the Sagamore Hills online page, and email the Sagamore Online mailing list (email • archives • subscribe & more) to discuss.
It is a Wordpress installation with Dreamhost.
To Do
See also: Sagamore online#To_Do
- Find big images for each page's "featured image" --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
- Some sort of Spanish translation link, like Google Language Translator? --Dave (talk) 10:34, 18 September 2014 (EDT)
Done
How To
Calendar
Use the Google Embeddable Calendar Helper.
If you want to get fancy, check out Google Calendar Events.
Here's an example appropriate for the sidebar of the Sagamore Hills PTA website circa August, 2013.
<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showTitle=0&showNav=0&showDate=0&showPrint=0&showTabs=0&showCalendars=0&showTz=0&mode=AGENDA&height=393&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23ffffff&src=sagamorehillspta.org_oj8q0h49li5ovc3dp8f114ngr8%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238C500B&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style=" border-width:0 " width="262" height="393" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Or an example for the Calendar page…
<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?title=Sagamore%20Hills%20Elementary%20School&showTz=0&height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=sagamorehillspta.org_oj8q0h49li5ovc3dp8f114ngr8%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238C500B&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style=" border-width:0 " width="604" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Show discussion
Not used anymore, but you can still see how to do it.
Accounts
Several accounts are associated with managing the website.
Wordpress
The Wordpress site can be logged into by a single user, admin, and is assigned the email address communications@sagamorehillspta.org.
The password known to:
- Anyone who has access to the Sagamore Google Drive and the Password file there
- Vera Kornylak
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.
Notes
- When testing, check out the Wordpress installation available from the Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account, http://dev1.sagamorehillspta.org/
- Cliff Valley uses Finalsite (who provides nice suggestions for a school's homepage)
- A couple site solutions were looked into when Dave attended the 2014 Ga PTA CLT#IT_Vendors
Usage
See: Sagamore Hills PTA website logs 2012