Strategic Research Development

The Strategic Research Development group was, like many offices at Texas A&M University, stuck with an old Dreamweaver-based website they didn’t know how to maintain. I moved the content into WordPress using the HTML Import plugin, designed them a …

ATMO SOAP

This group blog uses a child theme of Origin, with just a few modifications, and a small plugin to list the blog authors along with their avatars and bios.…

The Beau Monde

The Beau Monde is the Regency chapter of the Romance Writers of America. I work with the board to keep the site up to date and to implement custom administration features. At the moment, we’re working on a member directory …

Texas A&M University at Qatar

The Texas A&M campus at Qatar had been up and running with WordPress for a while, but they needed a review of their custom theme. Its developers had, as it turned out, done a lot of things on the checklist …

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 …

International Writing Centers Association

While I was working at the University Writing Center, a summer intern and I moved the IWCA’s old site into WordPress. To display the various distinct categories, we set up a magazine theme with a couple of custom widgets.…

Scott Westerfeld

When Scott’s Leviathan was published, his publisher hired a graphic designer to revamp his website in fine steampunk style. Alas, the firm wasn’t entirely conversant with WordPress’s best practices, and the result was a table-based (!) design that broke every …

Justine Larbalestier

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 …

Texas A&M University Writing Center

When I was hired in 2007, the Writing Center had a complex site built in Mambo. It that hadn’t been updated in a while. Only the director felt comfortable adding anything, and we had forty-odd enthusiastic students who could contribute …