Sagamore Hills PTA website

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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 to discuss.

It is a Wordpress installation with Dreamhost.

To Do

  • Experiment with different website platforms:
Discussed at website meeting with Dave & John, continue discussion on mailing list (email • archivessubscribe & more) --Dave (talk) 21:00, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
  • 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

Setup a calender, still working out the details --Dave (talk) 22:35, 25 August 2013 (EDT)
✓ Run a test on the PTA Calendar page --Dave (talk) 22:46, 26 August 2013 (EDT)
  • Need to provide subscriptions instructions from school & PTA websites (like those at the Sagamore calendar page --Dave (talk) 17:58, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Done (for the PTA website (the school site has the sidebar)) --Dave (talk) 19:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
  • 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.

Two methods are listed below, in order of preference. There are two because sometimes only one of the two will work.

Method 1

  1. From an email newsletter, copy the link from, "Having trouble viewing this email? Click here"
  2. Use the first part of the link (with the ca parameter (the c and cc parameters 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

  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 can be logged into by a single user, admin, assigned Dave Barker's email address (since passwords may be sent to the account email address, it's not appropriate to use the PTA online group email address).

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.

Usage

See: Sagamore Hills PTA website logs 2012