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Kathleena Gorga

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Site

www.kathleenagorga.com

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)

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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.

Conscious Beauty

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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

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Conscious Beauty 2 (created by Sallie Goetsch with Artisteer)

Active Plugins

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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.)