Project 5: WordPress Integration

February 2011

Objectives

  • Move the existing website to the WordPress content management system for:
    • Better SEO and SEO options;
    • Access to a more robust and committed development community;
    • Integration with the world’s most used web content publishing platform;
  • Commit to a website content management system with a solid long-term strategy, a large installed user base and a dedicated, passionate development team and community;
  • Provide a simple, intuitive way for non-HTML-savvy
  • Create a WordPress “theme” to exactly match the look-and-feel of the existing www.drjillweber.com using industry best practices and web standards-based HTML;
  • Update existing .htaccess file to use permanent redirects (technically called 301 redirects) from existing website URLs to the new WordPress-based URLs.