NEW EDOT WEBSITE
by LauraYou might be wondering “how much work went into this website?” About 175 hours by one person, not to mention the countless hours spent by others who contributed in multiple ways including GEMStone Media (also a ministry of Greater Europe Mission) who created the design for this website. This truly was a team effort.
The next question might be “what makes it tick?” The easy answer is Wordpress with a LOT of plugins. There’s also a slew of custom code to make things like the menu interactive (based on code from Andrew Sellick), allow the use of special fonts (sIFR), and create the cool country map (February 2009 Issue of .NET Magazine). We also had to customize many of the Wordpress plugins to fit our needs. Because Wordpress is free and because the plugins we used are free, we’d like to list them here for you to give credit where it’s due. Oh, and we also found out that if you have more plugins installed then the ones listed below, you can crash Wordpress….
- Akismet
Comes with Wordpress and filters out spam in the comments field. - Breadcrumb NavXT – Administration Interface & Breadcrumb NavXT – Core
http://mtekk.weblogs.us/code/breadcrumb-navxt/
These two plugins work together to enable the breadcrumb navigation seen on all subpages of the website. - Constant Contact Widget
http://katzwebdesign.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/constant-contact-wordpress-widget-easily-add-a-signup-form/
This widget is used on the home page and allows users to sign up to receive our Newsletter via email from Constant Contact. - Contact Form 7
http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/
This plugin controls the form used on the contact us page. - Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
This plugin is used to create the sitemap page.
- Extended User Profile
http://horttcore.de/wordpress/extended-user-profile
This plug in is used to add fields to the user profiles used on the page “Meet Our Team”. - Google Analytics for Wordpress
http://yoast.com/wordpress/analytics/
This plugin is used with our Google Analytics account to easily add the necessary code into the footer of each page. - Post-Plugin Library
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/post-plugin-library/
Necessary to run the plugin “Random Posts” - Random Featured Post
http://www.mydollarplan.com/random-featured-post-plugin/
This plugin generates the random quote on the home page of the website. - Random Posts
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/random-posts/
This plugin generates the random changed life story on the home page. - Really Simple CAPTCHA
http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/really-simple-captcha/
This plugin is used in conjunction with the Contact Form 7 plugin. - Search Unleashed
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed/
This plugin extends the Wordpress Search functionality by adding a lot of bells and whistles. - Shashin
http://www.toppa.com/shashin-wordpress-plugin/
This plugin is used with Picasa albums and currently displays the 3 photos on the left side bar of the subpages as well as the photo gallery under the Promo section of the website. - Simple Tags
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags
This plugin allows users to input tags into pages and not just posts. Significant for displaying the related posts on each page correctly and for displaying the tags in the Meta information in the header of each page. - Sociable
http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/
This plugin is used at in the footer of each page to display icons for sharing the information on that page within social networking sites. - TubePress
http://tubepress.org/
This plugin displays the videos on the video page under the Promo page. - User Photo
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/
This plugin adds the ability to add a photo for each user on the website. The photo is displayed on the Meet Our Team page. - Wordpress Users
http://kempwire.com/wordpress-users-plugin
This plugin is used on the Meet Our Team page to display all Wordpress Users. - WP Page Numbers
http://www.jenst.se/2008/03/29/wp-page-numbers
This plugin displays a black pagination bar at the top of a page of posts when there are more than 10 posts in that category. - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/
This plugin shows related posts on the right side bar. The relatedness is judged by comparing the tags on the current page and the tags on other pages.
I’m impressed if you read through the entire list! This website was a fun project that we hope you enjoy. Thank you to the whole eDOT team who put aside schedules and other work to help me complete it. To God by the glory!
