WordPress Design & Development
About the author: Dan Cannon is the CTO of Nicasio Design. Follow Dan on Twitter.
With WordPress gaining in popularity at an exponential rate there are more and more sites out there running on WordPress. Some are running on pre-made themes, some are running on custom designs.
Regardless of how your WordPress Site’s design will be implemented the following 10 WordPress Design Tips will help you organize your content, get more return users, and have a better WordPress experience.
“I have to say, I’m so happy to be working with people who are organized and really spell it all out! The past company has been a nightmare…”
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Willow Brook leather approached us looking for a design update to their successful website. They were interested in the ease of use and power of our NicE-Comm platform for managing their product’s pages on their website, but still wanted to keep the power and simplicity of their Americart checkout process.
The solution was to build a custom website using NicE-Comm as the website front end and Americart as the payment/fulfillment gateway. The result was a quick and effective build that allowed us to take advantage of the design flexibility of NicE-Comm while giving the client the ability to manage their site content.
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We just completed the launch of our latest project: an e-commerce website for Strong Learning, Inc.
Strong Learning had several needs going into this project. They needed a custom design, they needed a CMS that would allow them to quickly and easily manage their content, and they needed e-commerce integration into their existing 1 Shopping Cart account for both purchases and newsletter signups.
Through the use of WordPress, custom post types, custom taxonomies, and a custom navigation, all of these needs were met.
Screenshot after the break.
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It’s common knowledge that people love “Top 10 Lists”. People love WordPress. It’s also common knowledge that people love celebrities and finding new ways to connect with them. I took these facts to create what should be the best blog post of all time: The Top 10 Celebrity websites running on WordPress.
The list and my findings after the break.
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This is a fairly unique website that we had the pleasure of building out. eTrain Today already had a logo and a basic idea of where they wanted to go with design, but needed help getting their new business venture up and running.
eTrain provides online training and testing for people that work with hazardous materials and other jobs that require various certifications. This site had to be part e-commerce, part membership management, and part distance learning.
We ended up building the site on WordPress. Through the use of a custom theme, the Shopp plugin, a custom, AJAX powered e-learning plugin (written by Nicasio) and integration with Articulate’s Presenter software we delivered a solution that is functional, intuitive, and easy to use (for both the site admin and test takers).
Screenshot after the break.
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We are proud to announce the launch of our latest custom WordPress Design and Development project.
R&J Public Relations required a robust content management system that allowed them to manage, edit and display several different types of data in innovative ways.
As there are several site editors, a simple and intuitive backend interface was required.
The solution we chose was a custom site using WordPress, built on a child theme of the TwentyTen theme. To accommodate the different data types being used on the site we used several different custom post types, each with its own custom taxonomies and custom meta boxes. This created a very intuitive and user friendly interface in the admin area of the site. Mix in some clean AJAX UI effects on the front end of the site (powered by jQuery) and you have R&J’s new, sleek site.
Screenshot after the break.
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On 8/21 I did a presentation at WordCamp Savannah entitled “Automating your WordPress plugin with WP-Cron”.
As promised here are the links to my slides and code demo:
Demo Plugin (zip of PHP file)
Thanks to all those who attended.
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It’s almost that time! WordCamp Savannah is this weekend (August 20-22).
There are supposed to be somewhere between 150-200 people attending.
I will be doing a presentation on “Automating Your Plugin With WP-Cron on Saturday at 1:30″
The rest of the speaker list is absolutely amazing and I’m honored to be in such good company.
If you’re coming we’ll see you there!
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Nicasio Design is proud to announce the launch of of our second publicly available WordPress plugin: Related Posts by Category Widget
This is a customizable widget that allows you to feature posts that share the same categories as the current post you are currently viewing.
This widget is obviously only shown on the single post page.
Screenshot after the break.
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We just bought our tickets for WordCamp Savannah.
This WordCamp already has an impressive speaker lineup and should be a great event.
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Many of our projects here at Nicasio Design are custom WordPress design and development projects. However, sometimes a client already has a site design and layout they like, but they want the power of WordPress for managing their site. In these instances we are able to take an existing design and implement it on the WordPress platform
Savannah Inns already had a static site and a separate WordPress blog. The goal was to combine the two sites and create one easy to manage system using WordPress.
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