I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can display my work on this website as a sort of portfolio. I’ve struggled, though, with working out how to best present it. Most of the work I do is related to porting blogs across systems or servers, installing plugins and themes, and making modifications to said plugins and themes to meet the specific needs of each client. The largest portion of my work is not visual in nature so a visual gallery on it’s own will not work. I’m not creating original code so offering downloads is not appropriate either. That leaves creating a narrative of the process of completing each major component of a project. This all sounds very labor intensive, which is a little on the scary side! But I think that, if I want to pursue doing this type of work, I will need to show what I’ve done in an organized way. A secondary benefit will be that I can use it as a sort of archive to keep track of some of the little tweaks I do to achieve various effects. It will make it much easier for me to go back and say “oh yeah that’s how I did that before!” Lastly, i think that by documenting some of my more creative solutions I’ll be adding something valuable to the WordPress knowledge base. I hope to be able to dedicate some time in the near future to begin documenting work that i’ve done in the past.

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