Stephanie Leary

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Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering

March 19, 2013 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

This project came along just a week or two after the Technology in Higher Education conference, and the situation was similar: a short deadline and a design in hand that wasn't planned with responsive layouts in mind. Again, I used Genesis to get things going quickly. … [Read more...]

Client: Texas A&M University at QatarType of work: Theme DevelopmentUses: Child Themes, Genesis Framework, Gravity Forms, Responsive Design, WordPressIndustry: Education

Month of Letters

February 28, 2012 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Client: Mary Robinette KowalType of work: Plugin DevelopmentUses: BuddyPress, Custom Post Types, Gravity Forms, jQuery, WordPress, WP EngineIndustry: Publishing

Hungry Monkey

November 5, 2008 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Client: Matthew Amster-BurtonType of work: Design, Theme DevelopmentUses: WordPressIndustry: Publishing

Marsha Moyer

October 5, 2005 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Client: Marsha MoyerType of work: Design, Theme DevelopmentUses: WordPressIndustry: Publishing

Fascism Watch

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Latest WordPress Book

Content Strategy for WordPress

A short book for content strategists and managers on implementing a complete content strategy in WordPress: evaluation, analysis, content modeling, editing and workflows, and long-term planning and maintenance.

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WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers (9781430258667)

This is a book for professional web designers and developers who already know HTML and CSS, and want to learn to build sites with WordPress. The book begins with a detailed tour of the administration screens and settings, then digs into server-side topics like performance and security. The second half of the book is devoted to development: learning to build WordPress themes and plugins.

This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything’s been updated for WordPress 3.6.

WordPress for Web Developers is out now. See what's inside...

The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Screen Options
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Bulk Edit
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Private Status
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Dashboard Feed Readers
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Options.php

Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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