This was one of the small conference projects that later led the communications team to commission the development of a flexible multisite network to more quickly spin up websites for conferences and symposia hosted at Texas A&M University at Qatar. … [Read more...] about Qatar Process Safety Symposium
Theme Modifications
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
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
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
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...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
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 of what not to do. The theme included the complete source code of four … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University at Qatar
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
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 time Scott added a … [Read more...] about Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
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...] about VP Alumni
