Looking for a WordPress Template or Website for a community Solarize+ project? I built a mobile friendly WordPress template in 2018 for Nashua Solarize+. This template includes all of the features you need for your community Solarize+ project: Events schedule on every page Company and sponsor logos on every page Contact Form on the homepage, … Continue reading Solarize Plus Template for WordPress
Tag: Wordpress
These site were built using WordPress. I recommend WordPress for simple content sites and blogs because it’s easy to use and maintain.
MtnWeekly Site Upgrade
MtnWeekly News publishes independent gear reviews after testing outdoor gear first-hand. SEO is highly competitive in the outdoor gear review space, and web site speed is a big factor often overlooked. A few weeks back I updated MtnWeekly with the goal of improving website performance. I broke the upgrade process down into these stages: migrate … Continue reading MtnWeekly Site Upgrade
Known WordPress Vulnerabilities – July 2019
According to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and The Free and Open Software Security Community here are the main current security issues with WordPress. The known issues are in plugins and one theme. The WordPress Application itself (the Core) does not have any know issues at this time. The plugin names in bold are ones I’ve … Continue reading Known WordPress Vulnerabilities – July 2019
NOAA Weather Forecast – WordPress Plugin
I built a WordPress plugin for displaying the weather forecast. The forecast data is pulled from the NOAA NWS Forecast API. The plugin has a shortcode that can be placed on a post, page, or in a widget, anywhere you want to show the forecast. The shortcode takes two perimeters: 1) the location (as latitude, … Continue reading NOAA Weather Forecast – WordPress Plugin
New England Society of American Foresters – Website
One of the new websites I’ve built recently was for New England Society of American Foresters. NESAF is a professional organization for foresters in the Northeast started in the early 1900’s. Rebuilding a large website with many priorities can be intimidating. To make your rebuild feel less daunting try following the simple process we used … Continue reading New England Society of American Foresters – Website
Rebuilding The SoapstoneWorks Website
One of my recent projects was converting an older static HTML website to a modern responsive website with a WordPress admin system. A static HTML website is hard to update. You need quite a bit of knowledge and skills that’s unlike anything most people have exposure to. However, updating the content on a WordPress most … Continue reading Rebuilding The SoapstoneWorks Website
Warner Realty Partners – Real Estate Website
Yesterday I launched a new commercial real estate site for Warner Realty Partners: Highly customized version of WordPress Spacious theme by Theme Grill. Removed unneeded CSS @media queries for optimal performance. Developed a custom WordPress shortcode to render properties from Catylist MLS on the page. Cached for 12 hours for performance. Good boost for SEO. RETS feed from … Continue reading Warner Realty Partners – Real Estate Website
Falcon Surveying, Inc. Website
I designed and developed this new website for Falcon Surveying, Inc. of Colorado. The site is built on WordPress, with stripped down version of WP Twenty Sixteen template. The template is built really well, but had more screen size variations than this site needs. Stripping out several media query sections helps the site load faster. The site … Continue reading Falcon Surveying, Inc. Website
Solarize Nashua Website
Nashua Solarize+ is an initiative started by the City of Nashua’s Energy Committee based on a national program by the US Dept of Energy. The nation wide initiative is design to increase local green energy adoption by facilitating bulk discount pricing. Pretty cool stuff. PingPR.com managed the project, and I did the design and development. The … Continue reading Solarize Nashua Website
Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
I recently switched my hiking conditions website from HTTP and HTTPS. Google’s documentation noted there may be a dip in my search rank and traffic while they re-index the site, but my experience was almost no detectable dip in the numbers. Here is the before and after from my Google Analytics account: That being said. Don’t … Continue reading Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
WordPress for my brother Frank
I recently built a WordPress site for my brother Frank, the mortgage banker. WordPress is a great option for Frank, because it so fast and easy to use. Frank’s been posting news to his blog several times a week and finds WP easy to use.
NH Project Learning Tree Website
I designed the NH Project Learning Tree website based on the national PLT.org website, and a PLT Style Guide published by Texas PLT. NH PLT went with discounted web hosting for non-profits provided by DreamHost. The DreamHost hosting service does seem reliable and fast, however I am not a fan of the hosting control panel … Continue reading NH Project Learning Tree Website
Coups2Cash.com
Last week I migrated Direct Mail & Digital Advertising company Coups2Cash.com, from Joomla 1.5 to WordPress. The new site design was provided by Tom at TG Graphics, Manchester NH. My job was to build the new template (Photoshop to WordPress) and load the content. The end result was not exactly as Tom designed, but a … Continue reading Coups2Cash.com
MtnWeekly.com gets a facelift
For this project I updated the MtnWeekly News WordPress template. I added to the template some widget and menu locations so MtnWeekly News can easy control the layout. The new header got 1) a widget area for ad space, 2) the site masthead, and 3) main menu location. All three can be controlled and maintained using the … Continue reading MtnWeekly.com gets a facelift
Rusticator.com
This was a really fun project, and I really enjoyed working with Paul Pat Morse an artist and jeweler. The Rusticator shop has been selling antiques, vintage and contemporary art, jewelry, for a long time. When I first met Pat he wanted to build this site in DreamWeaver. But I told him how much faster it … Continue reading Rusticator.com
MATSA.info
I built a new WordPress site for MATSA.info using the WP Twenty Seventeen template. This is the first time I have used Twenty Seventeen and think the code is just fantastic. MATSA’s old site had both side bars and a top menu bar, leading to a lot of confusion. Making the site look huge when … Continue reading MATSA.info
ZacharyBerger.com
ZacharyBerger.com is another new WordPress website I’ve built using a customized version of the “Twenty Sixteen” template. The quality of the “Twenty Sixteen” template is fantastic. Perhaps the best I’ve worked with so far. There is lots of custom CSS3 in this project: rounded corner on many elements, background colors, blends and images, and mobile-first media queries. My … Continue reading ZacharyBerger.com
Burns Insurance
Burns Insurance has been my insurance agency for years. So I was thrilled when they asked me to build them a new website. This new site is built using WordPress and a customized version of the “Twenty Sixteen” template. I also made artwork for the header using a photo they took of the office and some artistic … Continue reading Burns Insurance
Joan Tabachnick
I have worked with Joan for many years, as my primary contact at two associations I support, MASOC and NEARI. So I was really thrilled when Joan, now a Fellow at the US Department of Justice asked me to develop her own website and blog. JoanTabachnick.com is a WordPress powered website with a customized version of the Spacious (demo) template … Continue reading Joan Tabachnick
Pasquale Tallarico American Pianist
PasqualeTallarico.com is a site about an incredibly amazing person, my own Grandfather. My brother Frank Rexford designed the site and organized the content, and I put it into WordPress. I started with the WP Twenty Sixteen theme and modified the header and made some simple color changes. The sheet music you can see in the header is CLAIRE DE … Continue reading Pasquale Tallarico American Pianist
