The Trade Coach (WordPress CMS)

url: http://www.thetradecoach.net

The Trade Coach

SDAC Inc. provided:

  • XHTML/CSS programming
  • WordPress theme customization
  • WordPress CMS setup and configuration
  • Custom PHP Programming
  • aMember/PayPal Integration

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, WordPress, PHP, aMember

front end:

The client approached me with a WordPress theme already picked out and in place for a basic blog. He wanted us to customize it for a content management system (CMS) which included multiple levels of membership and had public and private pages and post.

back end:

This CMS was created using aMember, a few WordPress plugins, and some custom template code to keep part of the site private for paying members only. When a member logs in they will see content appropriate to their user level per the membership package they paid with. This is the first site we worked with that used multiple levels of members – and displaying content based on the user level. Amember is used to automatically create WordPress members after their payment goes through and will expire the members when their membership is up.

lessons learned/random thoughts:

It would be great if we had more control on groups (user levels) could see. We also ran into some WordPress bugs with displaying private posts in some of the default WordPress functions and hope these will be fixed in the next version.

T. Bubba WordPress Theme/CMS

url: http://tbubbafun.com

T Bubba

SDAC Inc. provided:

  • XHTML/CSS programming
  • CMS (WordPress) configuration
  • WordPress theme
  • WordPress Widgets
  • Third Party Plugin integration
  • aMember integration
  • Custom PHP programming

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, WordPress, PHP, aMember

user interface:

This web site design was created by a graphic designer that had also started the XHTML/CSS. I picked up where the designer left off and implemented the design as a WordPress theme.

lessons learned:

It is sometimes easier starting from scratch when working with other peoples’ code. A lot of time was spent fixing existing CSS issues and trying to figure out what the person did before me. In the end, everything worked out and is working.

random thoughts:

This site is almost completely dynamic. This site was created with the hopes that the admin could control everything completely through the WordPress admin. The menus, content, sidebars are all maintained via the admin.