Site
Relationship to WordPress Asylum
Client. (The same client as for the Conscious Beauty site.)
Theme
Kathleena Gorga 1.0 (created by Sallie Goetsch with Artisteer)
Active Plugins
- Advanced Text Widget
- Akismet
- All in One SEO Pack
- Bad Behavior
- Cleaner Gallery
- Google Analytics Dashboard
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Lightbox 2
- pageMash
- Search Meter
- Simply Show IDs
- WordPress Backup (by BTE)
- WordPress Database Backup
- WPtouch iPhone Theme
Notes
Kathleena wanted to duplicate the appearance of a site that had been created with a combination of PageMaker and Photoshop, but have the ability to add new photos to her galleries. Since I’m not primarily a theme designer (who am I kidding? I’m not a theme designer at all), this required a fair amount of tweaking, but the result is very close, with greater usability.
I used pageMash to hide the blog entirely more than for organizing the comparatively small number of pages.
The initial gallery page does involve a single table and a few absolute URLs—which tripped me up when it came time to publish to the root directory. The actual galleries use Cleaner Gallery and Lightbox 2. Cleaner Gallery is wonderful for uploading whole directories of images at a time.