PopCultureShock.com

  • hey all,

    i’ve just relaunched & redesigned PopCultureShock.com, now using WP ?? we’ve been doing this site for almost 10 years now (wow i can’t believe that) and as the site has grown i’ve really been feeling the limits of the backend i had created. so after a lot of trial and error with other systems (tried drupal, etc) i finally settled on wordpress and overall i’m pretty pleased with it ??

    i had some problems with site slowdown, but david chait kindly took the time to check the site out and pointed out some things i could optimize, starting with wp-cache2, which has helped quite a bit!

    anyway, we’re now in “soft relaunch” mode, so i thought i’d invite some WP-ers to check it out.

    let me say in advance that i know the front page is heavy. and i know that i have tables in my layout where i don’t need them (i do plan to fix that, along with everything else) and other no no’s.

    while i do welcome constructive criticism, mostly this is more of a wordpress appreciation post! thanks to matt & all the developers for making life so much easier ??

    -jon h.
    producer/designer, https://www.popcultureshock.com

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  • Thread Starter chanzero

    (@chanzero)

    roraz: i see you emailed me so i’ll try to answer your questions via that route

    cheers man, Id appreciate it ??

    Thread Starter chanzero

    (@chanzero)

    i should at least specify for the group though that i use and recommend the following plugins:

    customizable post listings & get custom field values
    https://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/

    post templates by category
    https://guff.szub.net/post-templates-by-category/

    image manager
    https://soderlind.no/ImageManager

    note that i use image manager mostly for inserting one or two images in a post; oustide of this i use ftp

    hi guys – this isn’t a question just for chanzero, but out of curiosity (because i’m considering doing a big WP-based site) how do you guys go retaining a ‘pure WP’ installation, so future upgrades are still possible?

    it seems to me, it would be very easy to get in there behind the hood and hack a big site, but the problem with that is, once you’ve done it, you can never really take advantage of future WP releases.

    so i guess the question is: are people with sites like PCS keeping as far away from the WP engine as possible, or is that just not a viable option for big customised sites?

    r.

    Thread Starter chanzero

    (@chanzero)

    i don’t think i’ve changed any of WP’s core files, so i think — and hope! — i should be fine for upgrades. granted i don’t use WP’s normal index/home page, but aside from that my changes are just stuff with the templates (mostly layout oriented) which, if i understand things correctly, are not going to cause problems when upgrading

    in fact, i think if i were to get in there and code my site in pure css (rather than the tables i have in there now) any kind of upgrading or redesigns should go perfectly smoothly ??

    just my take, but applicable to everyone i think

    looks like a great site, good job ??

    IMO: everything looks and works fantastic! The only thing I could say is slow down your “breaking news” scroller. Maybe to 1 every 5 seconds.

    Other than that, *thumbs up*.

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