WordPress Customization: Theme Customization – Placer County Online
Client: Placer County Online
Overview: Produce a 60-80+ page Website for hyper-local news in Placer County that was also easy to edit through the back-end. A lot of functionality was required to cover all of the client’s criteria.
Process: Working with the client, we researched pre-designed “news” WordPress templates from Template Monster that best matched the criteria for the site. Multiple screen-shot instructions for owners to make their own back-end edits.
WordPress customization included:
- Header graphics & custom link placement
- Home page layout edits
- Restaurant listing: searchable & dynamic alpha-numeric display
- Events calendar
- Custom Category templates
- Custom Single-Post templates
- Custom Page templates
- Custom sidebars
- Table-based data layout
- Constant Contact signup integration
- Customized Registration page
- CSS text and link colors
- Social Media links
- Advertising modules
- Contact form
- External menu links
- RSS integration for data display
WordPress plugins used:
- Ad Squares Widget
- Advertising Manager
- Akismet
- All in One Video Pack
- AP Style Dates and Times
- Category Posts Widget
- Contact Form 7
- Current Date & Time Widget
- Custom Post Templates
- Duplicate Post
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Lightbox 2
- Pie Register
- Platinum SEO Pack
- Really Simple CAPTCHA
- Secondary HTML Content
- Sidebar Login
- SimplePie Core
- SimplePie Plugin for WordPress
- Smart Ads
- Smart Youtube
- Sociable for WordPress 3.0
- Social Media Widget
- The Events Calendar
- TinyMCE Advanced
- TweetMeme Retweet Button
- WP-DBManager
- WP-PostRatings
- WP-RSSImport
- WP-Table Reloaded
- WP-Table Reloaded Extensions
- WP125
- WP Category Post List Widget
- WP Security Scan
- WP Super Cache
Software used:
- WordPress
- Photoshop
- Dreamweaver
- Dashcode
