As a WordPress Expert in New York City, I’m often asked if there are any challenges of working with a client who isn’t local to which I aswer “Almost none.” With the exception of a few hours time difference, all meetings and presentations are easily handled over the phone, by email, or by web site. In fact, most of my WordPress clients are not even in NYC. A recent content management WordPress theme was for a client in Los Angeles called PAWS/LA – http://www.pawsla.org. PAWS/LA, is a non-profit organization that provides services to assist low-income seniors and people disabled by a life-threatening illness keep and care for their pets.
WordPress in Action
PAWS/LA came to the table with an older web site publishing system that required they put everything on Word and then upload it – where it would be magically converted in to a web page. As you can imagine, this was pretty tiresome and the site wasn’t being updated as frequently as it needed to be. Additionally, they wanted to get the site unified in look and feel as well as add some new features like pet of the week and photo galleries. As a huge proponent of WordPress, I pitched it as the primary engine we would use to power the bulk of content on the web site. Besides the usual news type items, WordPress could handle all of the static content pages and by using one of my favorite plug-ins, the custom post template, you can easily control and customize the template for the post type you are working on. This plug-in allows me to use posts as “data containers” and gives me the flexibility to output the data in any form or fashion I choose. In the right mind, a very powerful tool.
WordPress Wrap-Up
So far the only downer with the project has been the use of CForms to power a few of the more complicated forms we have on the web site. While CForms does the job, and as far as I can tell, does it better than any other WordPress form processor, it still isn’t perfect. For some reason our complicated forms won’t send in HTML and there is no easy way to print the form in an attractive/readable format. WordPress as a content management system is still rocking the party and I would easily choose it again for the project. With the exception of the form managament, the client is very pleased with the WordPress system and is already more actively adding new content to the web site.
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