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