The University of Georgia Online Learning team had a pilot project for their open educational resources: the Physical Education department had written an open textbook for their courses, and it was the ideal project to see whether Pressbooks would serve their needs. If it went … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network
Multisite
Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network
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...] about Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network
Texas Transportation Institute
After I finished TTI's events site, the group asked me to make the main site's theme responsive. I reworked the slider plugin, rearranged content for mobile, and rewrote hard-coded home page elements as widgets. … [Read more...] about Texas Transportation Institute
Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
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...] about Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
PressBooks Importers
The crew at PressBooks asked me to customize the standard WordPress importer to behave a little differently: instead of immediately publishing the stuff from the old blog, they wanted to put the imported content into a queue and let the user select where it should go: their … [Read more...] about PressBooks Importers
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 -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University Writing Center
Texas Transportation Institute Events
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...] about Texas Transportation Institute Events
Team Human
The authors of this collaborative novel wanted a small website, separate from their own, to showcase the new book. To get things up and running quickly and inexpensively, I wrote a WordPress theme based on _s and Bootstrap, with a color scheme based on the book's cover. Since … [Read more...] about Team Human
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...] about Justine Larbalestier, 2008