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. 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
- 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)
- Use Google Calendar—embed in website and allow public subscribing
- Use prettier urls? See Using Permalinks and the the settings. --Dave (talk) 22:21, 3 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)
- 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)
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).
- 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)
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.
Usage
To try and get a sense of how the PTA website is used, one can use the log account. The reports really aren't that good (says Dave)—you need to look at each month to start to paint a picture.
In 2013-02, Dave looked at months 2012-03 - 2013-01 .
- 75 visits per page per month average
Top page visits per month Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Parent Resources 189 167 150 132 189 287 298 414 399 247 653 PTA Board 166 148 200 195 284 381 187 200 145 184 247 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 (
c-76-97-209-111.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) accounts for about 1/8 of all visits—I'm guessing it's Vera doing updates (and AJAX calling a lot?)
Months (of 11) visitor was top 10 visitor: 10 c-76-97-209-111.hsd1.ga.comcast.net 9 c-24-98-107-183.hsd1.ga.comcast.net 8 99-11-162-26.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net 6 msnbot-157-56-94-164.search.msn.com 4 crawl-66-249-73-21.googlebot.com 168.8.249.173 3 c-24-99-152-124.hsd1.ga.comcast.net c-66-56-31-68.hsd1.ga.comcast.net 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
| 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 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 //nair-al-saif.dreamhost.com/home/verkor/logs/sagamorehillspta.org (use the server account to access). On 2013-02 there was:
http(&http.18336029)- This is the one we want. Links into
/home/_domain_logs/verkor. http.18336029.bak- Only the month of 2011-07
http.18325727&http.18327662- Empty