Our friends over at Thunder SEO introduced a while back to their client, Rancho Mesa Rentals, who needed to migrate their site to WordPress to enhance the effects of a Local Search Marketing campaign in progress. Alan and his team needed a website that would allow for blog posts to keep their clients informed and display their rentals. Our approach to the design was to keep it clean and simple to allow for their advice on San Diego property management and San Diego rentals take center stage.
The site is built on WordPress 3.0 and is extensively using the new custom post types feature that came with this release. This allowed Rancho Mesa to eliminate the use of a 3rd party listing software to manage their rentals and incorporate everything under a single CMS. This is a very exciting development for the real estate industry as agents, brokerages and property managers have traditionally been tied to template website providers due to the cost of building a custom real estate listing management software.
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Stennett and Casino is a San Diego law firm that specializes in ERISA and other insurance claims. Jack Stennett and Barbara Casino were referred to us by their IT firm Bl3ndLabs to update the design of their site and migrate to a CMS that would allow for easier content management on their end. The new Stennett and Casino site is built on WordPress 3.0 and is using the BinaryM CMS pack and pageMash for plugins.
One of the great new features with WordPress that we are using with this design is the post thumbnail functionality. Without modifying the theme files, the client is now able to change the look of their site page by page by simply uploading a different header image in the page manager.
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A couple of weeks ago, the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children (SDICAC) Task Force contacted us for some help with their website. Their biggest challenge, and one that is all-too-common, was the inability to manage the day to day upkeep of their site.
After a quick refresh of the design, we built the new site on WordPress 3.0, which is a perfect CMS for site owners who want to manage their content on a daily basis. The site itself is your basic page/post hybrid using all of the core features that we have come to love with WordPress.
SDICAC is a collaboration of local, state and federal agencies who investigate offenders using the Internet, online communication systems, or other computer technology to sexually exploit children. BinaryM is proud to have SDICAC as a client and we look forward to working with them to keep the internet a safe place for kids and families.
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Based upon the post Faces of CPAN and inspired by Jeffro’s request, I created a very small plugin that displays your registered users Gravatars. Using a shortcode, you can display all users anywhere on your site. The default output will display only users with a Gravatar at 80×80 pixels. You can change this with a couple of options.
Default Display [ facesofusers ]
Larger with Monster IDs for missing Gravatars and names displayed [ facesofusers size=120 default=monsterid name=true ]
Chris Daley
Foo Bar
Matt McInvale
Sarah Fulka
Small with links [ facesofusers size=35 link=posts ]
The plugin will cache all data for 72 hours (or until a user profile is added/edited/deleted), this should help negate any performance issues with checking against Gravatar.
Usage
- Install plugin
- Add shortcode to content [ facesofusers ]
- Done!
Options
- size : integer; default is 80 pixels
- name : boolean; default is false
- default : string; default is none
change to display a default Gravatar for users without one
identicon, monsterid and wavatar currently supported
- link : string; default is none
change to display a link to the user’s website or posts page
posts or site currently supported
Change Log
- 5-24-10: Added link option
- 5-15-10: Added size, name & default options
- 5-12-10: Published plugin to WordPress.org
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