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.
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
- Look into Wordpress new themeing (see also: Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes) --Dave (talk) 11:40, 2 February 2013 (EST)
- Now I'm looking into balancing stock theme capabilities vs customizations, especially things like custom fields, custom post types, and such. --Dave (talk) 10:33, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
- Possible starting points: Twenty Twelve, the default Wordpress theme, supposed to support major Wordpress features (probably the best to child off of); SemPress, semantic goodness; Toolbox & BlankSlate, in the raw to start from (almost) scratch --Dave (talk) 16:10, 15 February 2013 (EST)
- With the 2014-09 update, using default Twenty Fourteen (with a header image) --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
- Do some cleanup after the Wordpress backend refresh --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
- Fix simple problems with existing content (broken links/images)
- Make sure pages have cute URLs
- Deleting old media files (and making sure good ones are somewhere on the Sagamore Google Drive (may already be done))
Older done to dos are Sagamore online history#Online
How To
Link to the newsletter
The most recent weekly Wildcat Update Newsletter should be linked from the Sagamore PTA homepage.
Two methods are listed below, in order of preference. There are two because sometimes only one of the two will work.
Method 1
- From an email newsletter, copy the link from, "Having trouble viewing this email? Click here"
- Use the first part of the link (with the
caparameter (thecandccparameters are not wanted)). For example:http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=bc3db49d-a82b-402d-8845-75ee3de7475e&c=cc737c60-de1b-11e2-93b0-d4ae528440e0&ch=cc763b80-de1b-11e2-93b0-d4ae528440e0
Method 2
- Login to the PTA Constant Contact account
- Find the Email Details page of the email (newsletter) to link to (in Recent Work, or Email)
- Under Social Sharing, select Simple Share, and find the URL (something like:
http://conta.cc/UPZ93d)
Show discussion
To show current action from the Sagamore PTA discussion groups on the website, display the groups' syndication feed:
- Collect all the Sagamore PTA discussion groups' IDs; they're the unique part in the URL
- Find the right syndication feed address; they're available from a group's "About" page (e.g. About Garden)
- Aggregate the feeds into one; ChimpFeedr might be good
- Display the aggregated feed on the website, like with the built-in Wordpress RSS widget.
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
- 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