Flash portfolio WP CMS ( Blog)

  • Since this site was more an advancement for me in regards to integrating wordpress rather than being a showstopping flash site I thought I would look to the WP community for feedback.

    Using 2 wordpress installations (one for CMS, one for blog) I was able to let the power of WP control my latest site.

    Features/setup:
    RSS Includes Pages
    Custom Fields for Feeds
    Custom Field Template
    Google Analytics flash integration
    Multi sub-domain asset locations for faster loading

    In the future, I plan to switch from the atom rss to a custom created one to reduce some of the unnecessary nodes when loading xml’s for clients, work, news etc. I am also going to look to possibly combining the blog & the CMS, but in the meantime it is nicely separated.

    Thanks for looking!
    -Jared

    https://jaredfreeden.com

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  • hey,
    I just bought my domain and hosting. I chose fatcow hosting with WP as a template. I want to turn it to as a photography website that includes portfolio, contact, about page and with a blog intergrated with it. I just want to do this with using just WP. I have seen people done that but I am not sure how to do it myself. Should I just buy/use a theme and customized it myself with plugins? And if so should I use a regular theme or photoblog theme? Should I make it myself with just plug-ins and stuff? Thanks.

    Thanks! Great work really!

    Thread Starter freeden

    (@freeden)

    timsoulo Thank you!

    Thread Starter freeden

    (@freeden)

    brasofilo How did your approach end up working out??

    Very solid design. Congrats on excellent work!

    awesome site! really tight AND strong

    lenglain

    (@lenglain)

    Wow!!! I’m not talking about your website but about the fact that you are self taught. I have so much respect for that. I decided to make a website recently using wordpress, and fell in love with web programming and design, this is definitely my new hobby and the dream is of course to make money off of it in the future.

    Do you have a simple template that you don’t mind sharing with us? Lee Brimelow has a great tutorial that helped me cover the basics of mysql>php>flash but now I need to figure out how to do it with wordpress databases, how to cherry pick exactly what I want from the databases and how to customize categories etc. Most importantly,I want to find out how to incorporate such a function in a flash design which I have already set up.

    regardless, Rock on – your portfolio is outstanding!

    mloda

    (@mloda)

    looks awesome, great job

    auday1982

    (@auday1982)

    very nice, i am also going to use wp for designing websites as well as making my own portfolio

    good luck to all

    Thread Starter freeden

    (@freeden)

    @lenglain Thank you for the great comments!

    The flow for the back end is WP>RSS>Flash. The two most important steps in getting the WP backend to tie into the flash were using the WP plugin Custom Field Template, and adding nodes to the RSS feeds to display those custom fields. Others have found success in using AMFPHP communication to skip XML/RSS directly, but I chose to go the more familiar XML route when I built this site. By going the XML route, I was also easily able to publish the feeds behind the site to allow search engines grab the content as well.

    Here you can see the modified atom rss with the custom fields.
    https://jaredfreeden.com/manage/category/client/feed/atom/
    https://jaredfreeden.com/manage/category/work/feed/atom/

    @mloda, @auday1982, thank you!

    Hi freeden,
    it looks great…
    but how could you add the custom fields to the rss? I cannot find the way? ??
    Thanks,
    Adam

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