Student Ministries Website Release
Our new student ministries website is officially live starting today. You can visit it at www.ameliastudents.com.
We’ve worked really hard to make it a safe and fun place for our students and their friends. You’ll probably see some changes with it over the next several months as we tweak it to be even more centered on the needs of our students.
On the tech side of things, I built the site using WordPress 2.0.7 (there are some conflicts with 2.1 and the polls plugin that we’re using) with a custom widgetized template that I designed. I also integrated Vanilla 1.0.3 (forum) into the design.
Here is a list of WordPress plugins we’re using on the site:
- About Me Widget
- Akismet
- Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer
- Auto-hyperlink URLs
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
- Email Shroud
- FD Feedburner Plugin
- Google Analyticator (gotta love those stats)
- Google Sitemaps
- Image Manager
- Page Links To
- Polite-ifier
- Search Pages
- Sidebar Widgets
- WP-ContactForm
- WP-Polls
- WP-Polls Widget
Here is a list of Vanilla extensions we’re using on the site:
- Account Pictures 1.1
- Announcement 1.2
- Applicant E-mail Verification 0.4.0
- BBInsert Bar 0.1.5
- Better BB Code 1.0
- Discussion Filters 2.0
- Extended Text Formatter 1.0
- Guest Welcome Message 1.0
- Hide Success 1.0
- Invite Friends 0.3
- Legends 1.0
- MarkAllRead 1.0
- New Applicants 1
- NewsMailer 0.2
- Predefined Attributes 0.3.3
- Private Accounts 1.0
- Role History 1.0
- STOP CAPS ABUSE 1.0
- Saved Searches 2.0
- Smooth Page Jump 1.0
- Yellow Fade Effect 0.1
- Comments Permalinks 1.0
For the games on the site, we’re using code from a free Miniclip.com game each month. Watch out, the game I have up as Last Month’s Game is really addicting!
