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Two WordPress Features I Love

What are Your Favorite WordPress Features?

Every website I have developed in the past year has used WordPress as the content management system. Every day I learn new techniques for implementing WordPress into my client websites. Although WordPress is realtively simple to use, it is packed full of features that make it ideal for many website design projects.

I wanted to share with others two of the neat features I have discovered that WordPress allows a developer to implement. Although WordPress is a great system right out-of-the-box, the ability to extend it for more custom applications is what really appeals to me.

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November 25th, 2007 | WordPress | 3 comments

Nancy Redd

A Million Dollar Miss America

Project Complete: I just completed a website for Nancy Redd. For those of you who do not know her, Nancy is a former Miss America contestant as well as a $250,000.00 winner on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

If those two attributes were not enough, Nancy is also a Harvard University graduate who has recently written a book titled Body Drama that is available available at Amazon.com. She’s is also a very attractive young woman!

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November 21st, 2007 | Portfolio, WordPress | 5 comments

The Dividend Guy Blog

Custom WordPress Theme

Project Complete: This project involved customizing a blog theme for The Dividend Guy Blog. Using an existing three column theme, I was able to customize the look, feel and functionality of this financial advice website.

Although it is a standard, three column layout, this site is search engine friendly and Google Adsense ready. This WordPress theme is widget ready, allowing the site administrator to modify most of the sidebar content from directly within the WordPress administration dashboard.

As of the time of this post, the site administrator was still testing the theme and learning about widget implementation. As a result, the site may not be live, but you can take a look at a screen shot image of the new layout.