Editing Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes

[https://wordpress.org/ Wordpress] specific notes for the [[Sagamore Hills PTA website]]

==Styling==

Bother [[John Lenz]] to make it 'perty.


===Featured Images===

The target dimensions for featured images in the Twentyfourteen theme is: '''1038x576'''

==Plugins==

===Site change notifications===

So folks know when the website has been changed, the [https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-changes/ Wordpress plugin: Email Post Changes] comes in handy.

===Redirects===

* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ WordPress › Redirection « WordPress Plugins] (chosen over [https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin] (2014-09))

===Calendar===

You can just [https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/41207 embed Google Calendars], but they're ugly.  Instead, use a plugin to pull and present calendar data.

Tried [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/ Google Calendar Events] 2014-09, but it was buggy ([[Dave Barker|Dave]])

===Facebook===

See: [[Sagamore Facebook]]

==Setup==

How a new installation was setup for the PTA website reset 2014-09

===Fresh install===

# Login to the [[Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account]] and install Wordpress
## [https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage Manage Domains] → Add Hosting to a Domain/Sub-Domain
##;Do you want the www in your URL?
##: <nowiki>Remove WWW: Make http://www.example.com/ redirect to http://example.com/</nowiki>
##;Run this domain under the user:
##: sagamorehillspta
## [https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=goodies.installer One-Click Installs] → Wordpress (''without'' [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/WordPress_Deluxe_One-Click_Install Deluxe Install])
# Wordpress installation setup (at web address)
#;Username
#: sagamorehillspta
#;Email
#: [[communications@sagamorehillspta.org]]
# Settings
#;General
#:
#:;Tagline
#:: ''blank''
#:;Timezone
#:: America / New York
#;Discussion
#:
#:;Default article settings
#:: '''De'''select all 3 (notify, trackbacks, comments)
#;Media
#:
#:;Uploading Files
#:: '''De'''select, "Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders"
#;Permalinks
#:
#:;Common Settings
#::
#::;Custom Structure
#::: <code>/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%</code>
#::: ''("Day and name" minus the trailing slash)''
# Delete default example content: comment (comment 1 from Mr. Wordpress on post Hello World), post Hellow World (id=1), page Sample Page (id=2))

===Import old content===

Notes:

* Posts (pages) will maintain their Wordpress '''post IDs''' if possible (they aren't already taken on the new site), so fewer broken links!
* Media files (attachments) will only import from an '''"All content" export'''
* Since "All content" includes elements you might not want to import, like comments or navigation menus, try '''pruning the XML export file''' of those elements before importing

# Old site, Tools → Export → All content (save somewhere)
# New site, Tools → Import → Wordpress
## Install plugin as prompted
## "Activate plugin"
# Tools → Import → Wordpress (select saved export)
## Assign posts to an existing user (sagamorehillspta)
## Download and import file attachments

===Plugins===

# Delete unused default plugins:
#* Akismet
#* Hello Dolly
# Install
#* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-changes/ Email Post Changes]
#* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Redirection]

==Old ideas==

'''''Don't'' do these!'''

===Change starting post ID===

'''''Not needed''' if content is [[#Import_old_content|imported]]''

''From [[Sagamore online goals 2014#URL_redirects]]:''

Make the new Wordpress installation use post IDs we haven't used before to avoid collisions (terms and users weren't utilized enough on the old site to bother with), then setup .htaccess redirects from the old to the new as desired.

# On the new Wordpress database:
#: <pre>ALTER wp_posts AUTO_INCREMENT = 2001 ;</pre>

===Assigning post IDs===

'''''Don't use:''' Although the following is possible, it's probably better to just [[#Import_old_content|import old content]] and/or use redirects for old content (ala [[Sagamore .htaccess]]) and make new content use unique post IDs by doing [[#Change starting post ID]].''

* [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/7177/how-can-i-assign-post-a-specific-id-on-creation#answer-7230 migration - How can I assign post a specific ID on creation? - WordPress Development Stack Exchange]
* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6558286/insert-post-id-with-wp-insert-post#answer-8153962 wordpress - insert post ID with wp_insert_post - Stack Overflow]
* [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post#Example Function Reference/wp insert post « WordPress Codex]

* Might want to know how to [http://vocecommunications.com/blog/2011/03/running-wordpress-from-command-line/ execute from the command line] too

When importing content, it may be easier for sake of redirecting to assign posts/pages the same ID they had on the export site (especially if the export site exposed IDs in its URL (like the PTA site from 2012-2014)).  : ''This happens automatically with Wordpress's Tools → Import if the IDs aren't already taken!''

===Page Tagging & Categories===

Of the two default content types in Wordpress, '''Pages (unlike the other, Posts), cannot have Tags or Categories associated with them by default'''.  It is relatively simple to '''change that''' with [https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-pages-use-tags/ some code] or a simple plugin:

* '''[https://wordpress.org/plugins/pages-are-posts/ Pages are Posts]''' (I like that one for [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pages-are-posts/trunk/pages-are-posts.php its simplicity])
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-tags-and-categories-for-pages/ Post Tags and Categories for Pages]

''Only add Tags (not Categories) to Pages:''

* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tag-pages/ Tag Pages]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-tagger/ Page Tagger]




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