was someone’s first attempt at using WordPress. It ended up being a huge mess. Requirements Boss’ boss’ wishlist: • fresh look/feel • some personality / less formality • actually find things! • blog posts for news and podcasts
theme on top. • Page/Post identity crisis • Required a complete content build-out in order to make sense of it all. Content Reorganization Necessary Evil • I’m not a tax/audit pro. • OMG. This sucked. • Value = people can actually find things!
Searchable, sortable, up-to-date contact info Bonus! Add New Employee form output generates server scripts we use to create the new employee, their home folder, and mailbox.
• Can cause a confusion when used for a oft- updating file or group of files. WP Document Revisions by Benjamin J. Balter Used for centralized, revisioned, access- controlled, audit-trailed repository for policies, procedures, guides, and yet- to-be-converted forms.
forked by me (Had to, was 3 years old and broken) Displays post-publication revisions along with differences/changes from current revision on single post views … on the front end.
Users + custom meta. Roles Users can only have one role. D’oh! Tools Varying Vagrant Vagrants as your dev environment = winning [FREE!] Grunt.js tasks : build process in your repo [FREE!] Trello : Kanban boards for project/task mgmt [FREE!]