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Calgary Herald: Energy-Beat Child Theme in the Postmedia VIP Migration (2011-2012)
Performance work on the Calgary Herald: homepage tuning under heavy ad load on an energy-sector news cycle, on Postmedia’s WordPress VIP rollout…
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Regina Leader-Post: Lean-Newsroom Child Theme in the Postmedia VIP Migration (2011-2012)
Child-theme defaults and CMS ergonomics for the Regina Leader-Post: lean-newsroom theme UX on the shared Postmedia parent, WordPress VIP, 2011-2012.
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Calgary Swerve: geolocation-driven arts and events property on the Postmedia VIP platform, 2011-2012
Bespoke WordPress VIP build for Swerve, the Calgary Herald’s arts-and-events sister brand. Notable for an early-2010s HTML5-Geolocation experiment that reordered the front-page…
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DOSE.ca: bespoke entertainment property on the Postmedia VIP platform, 2011-2012
Bespoke WordPress VIP build for DOSE.ca, Postmedia’s digital-native entertainment magazine. Built on a custom framework that sat on top of the Postmedia…
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The StarPhoenix: Saskatoon child theme and iPad template on the Postmedia VIP platform, 2012
Per-paper theme and tablet template for The StarPhoenix on the shared Postmedia WordPress VIP blog platform, the multi-tenant theme system that ran…
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Is WordPress Dead in 2012?
What I’d say now. I wrote this in 2012, when SOPA and PROTECT IP looked like they might kill the platform inside…
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White Hat Black Hat SEO Tactics
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2011 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on…
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Isaac’s Way Restaurant: Online Charity Art Auction Tool
Custom online auction tool for Isaac’s Way Restaurant, Fredericton: bidders came in to view the artwork, charity beneficiary rotated by exhibition. WordPress,…
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The Hill Times: Drupal-to-WordPress migration with full URL and subscriber preservation, 2011
Drupal-to-WordPress migration of The Hill Times, Canada’s politics-and-government newspaper of record in Ottawa, done with the publisher’s internal team. Two pieces of…