New Year, New Assignments
aka WordPress Websites
As the new semester begins, Suloni told me about an exciting new project that I am a part of: WordPress development with Stacy! Over the first two weeks of school I have slowly been trained to use WordPress with a series of small assignments and 1-1 sessions with Stacy. The learning curve is not too high thanks to my past web experience. Slowly I’m starting to realize that even though WordPress makes a lot of things easier with its code and add-ons, everything is vastly more complicated and powerful too.
My first project was Notevenpast.org, a very flashy history website with blog posts and book reviews and links to other UT history sites. Stacy worked with them to improve the front-end to display their book reviews. He wanted me to do something similar to the blog posts tab. In short: display all the blog posts in a visually attractive way and create a way to easily sort through them. This project wasn’t too hard because the javascript that Stacy made was mostly reusable. However, it did give me a great perspective about where everything is located in WordPress (files, folders and the website) and also how all the elements interact. Below are the before and after pictures for the site.
