Stephanie Leary

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Berkeley College of Engineering theme framework and content model

April 6, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

The University of California at Berkeley's College of Engineering had a huge demand for WordPress sites and not enough staff to handle each request individually. Their marketing team asked me to build a theme framework that would offer a few color scheme options in compliance … [Read more...]

Client: University of California at BerkeleyType of work: Content Strategy, Plugin Development, theme design, Theme DevelopmentUses: Advanced Custom Fields, Child Themes, CSS3, Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Genesis Framework, Gravity Forms, HTML5, jQuery, Responsive Design, WordPress, WP EngineIndustry: Education

Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network

November 20, 2014 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

I had worked with Texas A&M University at Qatar before to set up last-minute sites for events. We agreed that this was not the ideal process, and they set aside some time for me to create a better solution. We set up a new multisite network and created a sample site with … [Read more...]

Client: Texas A&M University at QatarType of work: Multisite Configuration, Plugin Development, Plugin IntegrationUses: Child Themes, CSS3, Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Events Calendar Pro, Genesis Framework, Gravity Forms, HTML5, Multisite, Responsive Design, WordPress, WP EngineIndustry: Education

Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases

April 24, 2013 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

The Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a part of Texas A&M's AgriLife division, is a research center focusing on animal disease. In addition to the usual news and informational pages, the site needed to showcase the Center's research projects, tools (the finished … [Read more...]

Client: Institute for Infectious Animal DiseasesType of work: Content Editing, Content Modeling, Content Strategy, Import and Migration, Plugin Development, Theme DevelopmentUses: Child Themes, CSS3, Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Genesis Framework, Gravity Forms, jQuery, Multisite, Posts2Posts, Responsive Design, WordPress, WP EngineIndustry: Education, Government

Technology in Higher Education Conference

March 19, 2013 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

This group needed a site for their conference, and they needed it done in a hurry. They had a Photoshop comp from their designer, but it was a fixed width design, and they wanted a mobile-friendly site. I decided to make it responsive, and I worked with them to determine content … [Read more...]

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

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

Texas A&M University Writing Center

October 26, 2012 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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 -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...]

Client: Texas A&M University Writing CenterType of work: Content Editing, Content Modeling, Content Strategy, Design, Import and Migration, Plugin Development, Theme Development, TrainingUses: CSS3, Custom Post Types, Gravity Forms, Multisite, Responsive Design, WordPressIndustry: Education

Texas Transportation Institute Events

July 25, 2012 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

  TTI asked me to help them implement a custom post type for their conferences (essentially an upcoming events system) and to replace the defunct CheezCap plugin they'd been using to manage per-site customizations for their Genesis child theme. I  implemented an … [Read more...]

Client: Texas Transportation InstituteType of work: Code Audit, Plugin Development, Theme ModificationsUses: Child Themes, Custom Post Types, Genesis Framework, jQuery, Multisite, Responsive Design, WordPressIndustry: Education, Government

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

July 25, 2012 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

TVMDL was moving into WordPress with the help of some very talented in-house people, but they were having trouble getting past their old content. I did a content inventory and helped them implement some of the changes they wanted to make to the AgriLife parent theme. Along the … [Read more...]

Client: Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic LaboratoryType of work: Content Editing, Content Modeling, Content Strategy, Import and Migration, Plugin Development, Theme ModificationsUses: CSS3, Responsive Design, WordPressIndustry: Education, Government

Texas A&M University at Qatar

July 25, 2012 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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 of what not to do. The theme included the complete source code of four … [Read more...]

Client: Texas A&M University at QatarType of work: Code Audit, Plugin Development, Theme Modifications, TrainingUses: CSS3, jQuery, Responsive Design, WordPressIndustry: Education

South Central Writing Centers Association

July 25, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Client: Texas A&M University Writing CenterType of work: Content Editing, Import and MigrationUses: WordPressIndustry: Education, Non-Profit

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