Introducing Trapezio
www.trapezio.com
Since June 2009 I have been employed by the Academy of Orthodontic Assisting. Yesterday we announced a new name – Trapezio. Personally, I like that it’s easier to say and write, and it sounds cool. The AOA has been a great company, both as an employer and as a school to train orthodontic staff. But we have re-branded in order to create a broader identity to boast a range of training offerings beyond clinical assistant certification. Next I’ll be working with the Trapezio educational staff to build in the additional e-learning courses on other topics.
My last few weeks have been primarily focused on developing a new company website. As I am not a designer or graphic artist, the company hired a third party designer to create the new logo and website concept art. We hired another party to slice the site art and build a foundation WordPress theme. I took those assets and ran with them. The www.trapezio.com site is a full WordPress CMS. So many of the WordPress features provided opportunities to automate functions.
Most of the site consists of Pages. There are two page templates: the home page and the main default. Each page displays a sidebar and main content. At the bottom of each page, I list that page’s child pages.
I created custom Category templates to handle a few items using the category-2.php function of WordPress. A custom category template is used for the News page to list Press Releases that are blog Posts of the news category. That template also displays Links added under the In The News link category to list outside references to the company. I also use custom category templates for a Job Postings page and a Posted Resumés page. In addition to the custom category templates, I use custom Single Post templates using single-2.php naming convention. This was achieved by adding a filter to the functions.php page based on a post on Nathan Rice’s blog.
I use several handy plugins that I will list below.
- I am using a Redirect plugin by Nick Berlette to make a couple of sidebar and nav menu pages redirect to custom Category pages.
- I use TDO Mini Forms by Mark Cunningham to allow job and resume listings to be added as Posts with custom fields.
- I use Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi to have multiple custom “contact us” type forms that email our staff
- I use WP Super Cache by Donncha O Caoimh to improve site performance
Being a WordPress site lends to easy site updating, automated RSS feeds and the power of plugins. We received great fanfare from clients and friends upon the release of the site and new name. Now on to the hard work 