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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)
** 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)
*** 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)
** 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)
*** 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)
* 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)
** 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 --[[User:Dave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Dave|talk]]) 23:08, 13 September 2014 (EDT)
* '''[[Sagamore online history#Website|''Older'' done to dos]]'''
* '''[[Sagamore online history#Website|''Older'' done to dos]]'''



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 • archivessubscribe & 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:

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

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.