Custom WordPress Case Study: Child Theme Edits – Plato’s Survey

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Overview: Custom WordPress site with shopping cart to sell marketing materials and Web-based surveys. Visitors will fill out survey forms, while franchise owners can order business cards, loyalty cards and customer survey campaigns.

Process: Utilized & customized the WordPress Thematic Feature Site child theme for Thematic. Integrated shopping cart, slide show, image gallery, advertising and surveys:

• Integrated WP e-Commerce shopping cart
• Customized shopping cart to include Image Gallery, as well as item & quantity variations
• Customized Home page PHP code to accommodate SlideDeck slide show
• Added logo to background
• Integrated customer surveys
• Integrated Google AdSense ads
• Custom templates for sidebar and non-sidebar page layout
• Custom WordPress pages
• Set up contact form

WordPress plugins used:

• Advertising Manager
• cforms (contact form)
• Display widgets
• Insere Iframe
• NextGEN Gallery
• NextGEN Galleryview
• Per Page Sidebars
• SlideDeck
• WP-DBManager
• WP e-Commerce
• WP Security Scan

Software used:

• WordPress for framework
• Illustrator for custom graphics
• Dreamweaver for editing PHP
• Dashcode for custom CSS