WordPress campaign site for Nancy Mace’s 2013 South Carolina US Senate run — a two-phase build (July hold page, September full site) on a custom Genesis-framework child theme, with the era-appropriate political-campaign stack underneath. The candidate now sits in the US House of Representatives.
canada.com was the Postmedia property that didn’t fit the newsroom template — because it didn’t have a newsroom. A WordPress VIP contributor portal for dozens of celebrity blogs under Canada’s national authority domain.
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2013 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
I worked on the National Post platform migration in 2011-2012, when Postmedia’s flagship daily moved onto WordPress VIP at the start of the network rollout.
Child-theme work on the Edmonton Journal — sibling-paper homepage discipline on the shared Postmedia parent, WordPress VIP, 2011-2012.
Platform migration work on the Ottawa Citizen — link integrity and source attribution for a federal-policy readership, on WordPress VIP in 2011-2012.
Theme engineering on the Montreal Gazette — bilingual SEO and discovery for English publishing in a French-language city, on WordPress VIP in 2011-2012.
Newsroom theme work and taxonomy architecture on the Windsor Star — cross-border auto-industry beat at archive scale, on WordPress VIP in 2011-2012.
WordPress Multisite for the Liberal Party of Canada — one platform, hundreds of independent candidate websites generated for a federal election. Part of the team that built it.