Sandra Rotman Centre WordPress CMS

The Sandra Rotman Centre is a not for profit organization which assists in the research of global health issues.

As a new organization the Sandra Rotman Centre required a new website to create their online identity. As users of WordPress on other online properites the SRC wished to build a WordPress CMS website.

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Screenshot showing SRC Wordpress CMS home page. Note rotating image banner and Twitter module in sidebar.

Screenshot showing SRC Wordpress CMS ‘our people’ page. Template makes use of Wordpress custom posts so that when a new porfolio is added not only is the page itself created, a new porfolio row is added to the ‘our people’ page too.

Screenshot shows SRC Wordpress CMS video page. Note that the template makes use of the YouTube API to automatically download video thumbnails.

Screenshot showing SRC Wordpress CMS about us page. This page features information on the three sections of the organization. The template uses Wordpress custom post types allowing the user to create a section page, about us entry, and a home page banner all in one simple action.

Requirements

Requirements for this WordPress CMS project included easy to use admin backend, home page rotating banner, Twitter integration, and YouTube integration.

Project Details

The template make use of WordPress custom post types as well as custom fields to ensure that the end user doesn’t have to have any knowledge of html to update all sections of the site. Take the video page for example, the WordPress CMS uses the YouTube API to download a video’s title, description, and thumbnail allowing the end user to add a new video by just entering in the video ID.

The template also makes us of the Twitter API to update the Twitter widget with the post recent twitter posts.

Features:

• Custom WordPress CMS
• YouTube and Vimeo integration
• Easy to update PDF article archive
• Twiiter widget integration
• Contact form

Skills:

• WordPress development
• PHP
• YouTube, Vimeo API
• Twitter API
• Javascript, jQuery
• HTML 5
• CSS 3