Colophon
For the website we’ve produced here for Clifford Renovation we used WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) and developed a theme which we’ve called Clifford Renovations 2010-1 based on a theme we discovered called Colourise which is origionallly designed by: styleshout and distributed by: Theme Lab. The Colourize Theme, like WordPress, is released under General Public License. It is free to download and use, and there are no restrictions on its use. The re-design and CMS modifications here were all performed by J. Jerrald Hayes of Paradigm-360.com
The following WordPress Plugins are in use, and are part of our basic recommendions for using WordPress in CMS applications:
Akismet – checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
All in One SEO Pack – out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
Contact Form 7 – another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – Generates a fully customizable sitemap
Dean’s FCKEditor For Wordpress – Replaces the default Wordpress editor with FCKeditor 2.4.3
Exclude Pages from Navigation – Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
Google XML Sitemaps – generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO>
One Click Close Comments – conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click.
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – All admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu.
Really Simple CAPTCHA – a CAPTCHA module originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.
Simple Section Navigation Widget – section based navigation
Sociable – automatically adds links on posts to social bookmarking sites.
UTF8 Sanitize – handles broken characters that might appear on blog posts, if their content is converted from/to UTF8 and ISO-8859-1.
Category Order—The Category Order plugin allows you to easily reorder your categories the way you want via drag and drop.
FireStats — Statistics plugin for WordPress.
Lightbox 2 — Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar.
My Page Order — My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.
No Self Pings — Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Page Menu Editor — Allows you to customise the title attribute and menu label of each page link in wp_list_pages.
Theme Tester — Allow an admin to test new themes without showing your blog visitors
WordPress.com Stats — Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
