My Site Added to the WordPress Showcase

This was a pretty cool thing that happened to me this week. A site I built earlier this year www.thefordstory.com got added the the WordPress Showcase! See for yourself – http://wordpress.org/showcase/the-ford-story/.

This is especially cool for me for two reasons. Firstly it talks about how it recognizes Fords choice to use WordPress a social media medium, which is something I myself fought hard to make a reality – PHP is not a language we have previously supported as an agency and in the short time we had to build the site some questioned whether we were biting off more than we could chew, and rightly so, but I felt it was important to move ahead and embrace WordPress which has become the industry standard for blogging. And secondly because “Ford’s use of WordPress as a CMS is also well done and features a seamless integration of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.”, so the site has been showcased because of the code and functionality, and as the architect of it and the guy that built out the custom plugins I am especially proud. I’ve been involved in awards before, but they’re almost always for creative and design, so this one feels a lot more technical and a lot more personal. Except it’s not an award!

Of course there were many people involved in making this site a reality and we all worked hard in a short space of time to make it happen, so well done to all!

Actually it’s funny too because when it was first announced I was getting emails from all avenues – account, project management, and team leads telling me the good news. And I’m like errr, I already know, WordPress emailed me directly about it, I’m the one that submitted it!