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Wordpress uses [[Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account#Database|a ''database account'']].
Wordpress uses [[Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account#Database|a ''database account'']].


==Usage==


To try and get a sense of how the [http://sagamorehillspta.org/ PTA website] is used, one can [[#Log|use the log account]]. The reports really aren't that good (says [[User:Dave|Dave]])—you need to look at each month to start to paint a picture.

In 2013-02, [[User:Dave|Dave]] looked at months 2012-03 - 2013-01 .

* 75 visits per page per month average
:{| style="text-align: right;"
|+ Top page visits per month
! !! Mar !! Apr !! May !! Jun !! Jul !! Aug !! Sep !! Oct !! Nov !! Dec !! Jan
|-
| [http://sagamorehillspta.org/?page_id=58 Parent Resources] || 189 || 167 || 150 || 132 || 189 || 287 || 298 || 414 || 399 || 247 || 653
|-
| [http://sagamorehillspta.org/?page_id=34 PTA Board] || 166 || 148 || 200 || 195 || 284 || 381 || 187 || 200 || 145 || 184 || 247
|-
| [http://sagamorehillspta.org/?page_id=24 Calendar]: || 93 || 92 || 102 || 85 || 121 || 168 || 104 || 179 || 103 || 103 || 133
|}
* More popular downloads happen about 30 times a month each
* "sagamore hills pta" is the most popular search to find us by far, at about 15 per month, with any variations (e.g. "sagamore pta") far behind
* Other "top" search topics (4 or more per month): accelerated reader, math fact mountains, and [[Math Stars]]
* 1/6 of referrals come from the DeKalb County Schools, 1/8 from Google, and the rest mostly garbage
* Some deleted content remains popular:
:;/?p=
:: 225, 256, 620
:;/downloads/
:: 0708studenthandbook.pdf, ELPCMin11.14.2008.pdf, 2009_revised_PTA_bylaws.pdf
* No trend found across months for day of the week activity (Daily Report) (e.g. there's no suggestion people are checking the site on Sunday for Newsletter info)
* A single user (<code>c-76-97-209-111.hsd1.ga.comcast.net</code>) accounts for about 1/8 of all visits—I'm guessing it's Vera doing updates (and AJAX calling a lot?)
:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ Months (of 11) visitor was top 10 visitor:
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 || c-76-97-209-111.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | 9 || c-24-98-107-183.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | 8 || 99-11-162-26.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | 6 || msnbot-157-56-94-164.search.msn.com
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" | 4 || crawl-66-249-73-21.googlebot.com
|-
| 168.8.249.173
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" | 3 || c-24-99-152-124.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| c-66-56-31-68.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align: top;" | 2 || c-66-56-29-194.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| c-76-17-82-37.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
|-
| 152-130-7-130.tic.va.gov
|-
| spider-199-21-99-102.yandex.com
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Top visitors per month ordered by number of 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 [http://sagamorehillspta.org/stats/longterm/cumulative 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 <code>//nair-al-saif.dreamhost.com/home/verkor/logs/sagamorehillspta.org</code> (use the [[Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account#Server|server account]] to access). On 2013-02 there was:

;<code>http</code> (& <code>http.18336029</code>)
: '''This is the one we want.''' Links into <code>/home/_domain_logs/verkor</code> .
;<code>http.18336029.bak</code>
: Only the month of 2011-07
;<code>http.18325727</code> & <code>http.18327662</code>
: Empty





Revision as of 03:53, 20 August 2013

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)
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)

Done

  • 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)
Done (for PTA homepage anyway) -Dave (talk) 20:34, 18 August 2013 (EDT)
  • 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)
  • Turned off interaction (notifying linked blogs, pingback & trackbacks, comments) by default for new content --Dave (talk) 16:46, 2 March 2013 (EST)
  • Disabled interaction on existing pages(13)/posts(3) (all we ever saw was spam, and our contact information (email) is available on the site)--Dave (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2013 (EDT)
  • 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)
Done --Dave (talk) 14:02, 11 February 2013 (EST)

How To

Link to the newsletter

The most recent 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 Simple Share, and find 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.