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)
    • Going to try and keep it simple (, stupid) for now and just have dumb pages manually linking to each other and manually defined navigation --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 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))

✓ Done --Dave (talk) 23:08, 13 September 2014 (EDT)

• Older done to dos

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

To show current action from the Sagamore PTA discussion groups on the website, display the groups' syndication feed:

1. Collect all the Sagamore PTA discussion groups' IDs; they're the unique part in the URL
2. Find the right syndication feed address; they're available from a group's "About" page (e.g. About Garden)
   • https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sagamorehillspta.org/forum/feed/garden/topics/atom.xml?num=15
3. Aggregate the feeds into one; ChimpFeedr might be good
   • e.g. http://mix.chimpfeedr.com/ba350-Sagamore-discussion-topics
4. 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

• 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

History

• 2014-09 A fresh start with a new Wordpress installation and theme after looking into other platforms
• The first PTA website was served at ptasagamorehills.org, as early as 2008-07 and no later than 2011-09.