I worked with Mary Robinette Kowal to set up the Achievements plugin for the Month of Letters BuddyPress site. Members earned badges for sending various kinds of mail, and cumulative points for the number of letters or packages they sent. These were reported via a Gravity Form … [Read more...]
VP Alumni
This is an alumni network for graduates of the Viable Paradise writing workshop. It's a basic BuddyPress site with a few plugins (maps, extended profiles) and a Gravity Form to let users register for Paradise Lost, the alumni workshop. This was the site that spurred me to … [Read more...]
South Central Writing Centers Association
This was one of the fastest migrations I've ever done. I was asked to see what I could do with the site without spending a lot of time on it. I ran its files through the HTML Import plugin, cleaned up and reorganized the content, and moved the new site to wordpress.com... all in … [Read more...]
Cleopatra
Cleopatra is the University Writing Center's scheduling system. Students log in to make appointments to get help with their writing. Writing Center consultants see their upcoming appointments (and other assignments), keep notes on what was discussed in each session, and request … [Read more...]
Hungry Monkey
The author of this charming book asked me to do a simple promotional site. At first, in order to keep the cost of the project low, we planned to simply modify an existing theme. However, by the third iteration of changes, the design was so different that I simply wrote the theme … [Read more...]
Justine Larbalestier, 2008
By the summer of 2008, Justine had been blogging in WordPress for some time, and wanted to use it to manage the 100 or so static pages that made up the rest of her site. She also wanted to update the look of the site and make it easier to maintain. The old design included … [Read more...]
Marsha Moyer
In 2004, I had a dream: WordPress could be used to manage "static" sites, not just blogs. This site was my proof. WordPress had just added its page feature, and the functions for dealing with it were somewhat rudimentary. Today, building this site would be a breeze. At the time, … [Read more...]
