Conscious Beauty

Site

www.consciousbeauty.com

Relationship to WordPress Asylum

Client (The amazing Kathleena Gorga is Sallie’s stylist, if you were wondering where that red hair came from.)

Theme

Conscious Beauty 2 (created by Sallie Goetsch with Artisteer)

Active Plugins

• Advanced Category Excluder
• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• All in One Video Pack
• Constant Contact Widget
• Flexi Pages Widget
• Google Analytics Dashboard
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Inline Posts
• Lightbox 2
• No Revisions
• Page Link Manager
• Query Posts
• Quotes Collection
• Random Image Widget
• Search Everything
• SexyBookmarks
• Simply Show IDs
• Subscribe2
• Thumbnail for Excerpts
• WordPress Backup by BTE
• WordPress Database Backup
• WordPress Mobile Edition
• WP Super Cache
• WP Widget Cache

Notes

Converted from static site to WordPress in 2008 to make it easier for Kathleena to maintain and update her own site. The blog was secondary, but she’s starting to use it more. The Advanced Category Excluder plugin and a custom page template power the dynamic content in the Community page.

Looking at this list, I realize that I could simply have used text widgets to do what I used Quotes Collection and Random Image Widget for, since there’s exactly one image and one quote. I was new to widgets at the time, and the name “text widget” confused me. And since it ain’t broke…

I tested a number of gallery plugins on this site, and Kathleena and I preferred the effect of Lightbox 2. I know everyone loves NextGEN, but it creates multiple copies of everything and puts them in strange places.

As for the cache plugins, Conscious Beauty is hosted on GoDaddy, which is known to be a bit sluggish as a WordPress host. (I have some of my own sites there as well.)