Made it through the intersection

It worked When the dust settled, key coded elements were: Resources (CPT) template and template parts (template parts are addictive, there may have been some nesting) Resource single post template Resource archive and taxonomy templates Full-width page template And the site It lives at http://intercultural.trubox.ca What about the Multiple Thematic Paginated Loops? They are there […]

Round 3

While all of this was taking place (August through January) I was also starting to bone up on some of the front-end coding languages. My HTML and CSS were passable so I tackled PHP first. It became readily apparent that if the project goals, resolves, honourings and so forth were to all be realized then something terrible […]

Round 2-1/2

Previously So, to recap: Tried Site Origins Page Builder and Post Loop widget, couldn’t get that to work Toolset clashed with the Baskerville theme, couldn’t get that approach to work A New Plan So, I devised a new plan. I would use Toolset’s starter theme, which is based on bootstrap and guaranteed to play nice […]

Round 2

Previously When we left off I had wrongly assumed that the Site Origins Page Builder was not playing nice with my custom post type. Retooling The Types plugin that I used to create my Custom Post Type is the free part of a larger paid suite of plugins called Toolset. My revised plan at this […]

Round 1

Previously Just to recap, at this point I have: copied and pasted my way out of the Howdy/Welcome nightmare used a well-designed and straightforward plugin to create a “resource” custom post type with appropriate custom fields and taxonomies. So, having picked and eaten all the low-hang fruit it was time to dig into solving the […]

The Development Problems

The next step for me was to translate the project requirements into a list of development problems that I needed to solve. Custom Post Type (CPT) for Resources The main unit of WordPress content is a post. WordPress began as a blogging platform so the post item contains fields for information you would need in […]

The Project

Note: all WordPress plugins and themes mentioned in this case study are high-quality, widely used plugins. I used them quite often. Any clashes, incompatibilities and problems can be placed squarely on the inexperience of the developer. The project began, as projects do, with a meeting between the internal client and our development people. Our client organizes […]

Undercurrents

This case study outlines some key WordPress related elements in the development of the Thompson Rivers University Intercultural Intersections website. Before we proceed with the case study I would like to identify a few undercurrents (I would use the word “themes” but there may be confusion with the WordPress usage of the word “themes.) Fear […]

Wordpress Intersections

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