Website
The Estates of Brentwood HOA website was started by Rich Siegmund and you can view an archive of that website by clicking here. In 2012, the original web hosting we used, Windows Live, was phased out by Microsoft causing us to search for a new website host.
In 2012, Chris Jones volunteered to take on webmaster responsibilities. Chris moved to the neighborhood in May 2012 and had previous webmaster experience from his former neighborhood association, North Shoal Creek NA.
Here are some facts about our current website:
The Estates of Brentwood website is hosted by Dreamhost. This costs us $120 per year.
We also pay an annual registration fee of $10 for the estatesofbrentwood.org domain.
The website is powered by WordPress software which is an open source project and free to use.
WordPress has many plugins that give us additional features. We list the current plugins in use and their main purpose below.
Plugin Name | Plugin Description |
Akismet | Protects the site from comment spam |
All In One SEO Pack | Helps improve our search engine results so our website is found easily |
bbPress | This software adds the discussion forum to our website |
Comprehensive Google Map Plugin | Allows us to easily add Google maps into pages and posts |
Configure SMTP | Gives the ability to configure and send email from within WordPress |
Exclude Pages from Navigation | Allows us to exclude pages from the top navigation pulldown menus |
Google Analytics Dashboard | Integrates Google Analytics into the WordPress Dashboard for admin use |
Google Analytics for WordPress | Adds Google Analytics for website traffic analysis |
Google Analytics Top Content Widget | Adds ability to show Google Analytics data on website pages |
Google Doc Embedder | Allows us to embed documents into a website page for easy viewing |
Google XML Sitemaps | Generates an XML formatted sitemap to improve search engine indexing |
Hotfix | Helps keep WordPress software and plugins up to date to improve security |
Login LockDown | Adds security to the WordPress login to help keep hackers out |
Members | Controls roles and access permissions of WordPress users |
Social Media Widget | Adds links to social media and sharing site profiles |
Ultimate TinyMCE | Improves the posting editor to make it easier to post messages |
User Meta Pro | Adds user management functions including user registration and email account verification |
WordPress Backup to Dropbox | Backs up our website to our Dropbox account on a weekly basis |
WordPress File Monitor Plus | Monitors all website files and reports any file changes to admins |
WP-Polls | Adds a poll system for voting on topics of interest |
WP Super Cache | Improves the load speed of the website |
WP to Twitter | Automatically posts news items to our twitter feed |
WPtouch | Formats site to accommodate mobile device screens |
WP Wunderground | Adds ability to add weather forecasts to posts and pages. |
