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Introducing Ruby gems: Capistrano-WP and Steps
Today we’re happy to announce we are the proud maintainers of two brand new gems on RubyGems: Capistrano-WP: A Ruby gem containing recipes for deploying, rolling back, and maintaining remote WordPress installations with Capistrano. In other words, these are the set of tasks that we use for local development environment configuration and remote Capistrano deployments…
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National Geographic Kids Blogs re-launch on WordPress
The team at Crowd Favorite is proud to announce the re-launch of the National Geographic Kids Blog on WordPress. The team at Kids was very clear and concise in what would make their blogs successful: privacy and protection for kids to leave comments clean, simple content presentation whimsical headers for each blog “mini” blog subject…
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Beatportal.com migrated from ExpressionEngine to Beatport News on WordPress
Yesterday, Crowd Favorite and Beatport launched Beatport News on WordPress. Previously, beatportal.com existed as the online community and resource for electronic and dance news for DJs, producers, and fans alike. From Beatport’s CEO, Matt Adell: The result is that what once was a bit of a side-project is now getting all the love and attention…
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Introducing Annotum: a scholarly publishing platform built on WordPress
Today we helped launch a new WordPress theme called Annotum. Annotum was built for scholarly journals and publishers to have a robust, WordPress-based platform for authoring and publishing. This theme also serves as a possible alternative as users transition from Google Knol to WordPress. Crowd Favorite worked in conjunction with Solvitor to ideate, design,…
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AMC and WE tv
Working in conjunction with AMC Networks, we lead the platform architecture and development for an entire television channel to manage their content: shows, characters, seasons, episodes, blog posts, photo galleries, videos, quotes, schedule data, movie features and more. The system is elegantly implemented as a WordPress theme using Carrington Core and Carrington Build to allow…
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MacDailyNews migrated from ExpressionEngine to WordPress
In conjunction with WordPress.com VIP Hosting, Crowd Favorite migrated MacDailyNews‘ 28,000 posts and 750,000 comments from ExpressionEngine and re-launched the site on WordPress.com with a new look and feel. Congratulations to the MacDailyNews team and welcome to WordPress! We go way back… The existing site had been hosted on ExpressionEngine for many years. We used…
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Business and blogging
Crowd Favorite worked on the personal blog of Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and entrepreneur. We were pleased to help the prolific blogger and internet figure re-launch his blog on WordPress. Rapid design implementation We were handed the layered design files and asked to help launch Marc’s blog as fast as possible while still doing a…
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Working with Compassion International
Every day we’re reminded that we work with some of the best clients and brands in the world. We recently helped an organization that is constantly doing good in the world: Compassion International. Working with Chris and the team at Compassion to re-design their blog and create a unique Facebook user experience has been an…
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International Living migrated to WordPress
International Living, a publisher of overseas investing and retirement advice, was seeking a complete overhaul for their online publications and products site. This included new design, page and post layout flexibility, integration of a customized authentication system, and new CMS functionality. The project began with an discovery process, where detailed project requirements were determined and…
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Interview: Alex King on Page.ly
Alex was recently interviewed by Sally Strebel at the Page.ly Blog under their “WordPress Heavy Hitters” series. Head over the the interview to read more about: What Crowd Favorite is working on Insight into the company’s success Working with WordPress HelpCenter and Crowd Favorite The future of WordPress Here’s a quick quote explaining how we…
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TDI Truth & Dare
Crowd Favorite worked closely with the clever folks at Crispin Porter + Bogusky to implement the new TDI Clean Diesel site. While the content of the site is powered by WordPress, the most interesting aspect is the use of BuddyPress to power the TankWars. Each driver’s profile contains their best milage score and rankings. Users…
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New Domino’s Pizza: Single-Serving Marketing Blog
Working with the great folks at Crispin Porter + Bogusky we acted quickly to launch a single-serving WordPress blog for a new Domino’s marketing campaign. The Pizza Turnaround site acts as a showcase explaining Domino’s latest recipe change. The blog features recent media mentions, documentary videos, and commentary from individuals on Twitter. We handled the…
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Money Morning: Investment advice website
MoneyMorning.com was looking for a complete facelift and new functionality for their website that provides free financial news and serves as an advertising platform for their products. The main goals were to implement a new design, gain greater control over page layouts, and have a more sophisticated advertising system. We worked with them to create…
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People’s Choice Awards Live Blog on Carrington Core theme engine
Crowd Favorite was approached by the nice folks at WordPress.com VIP on behalf of the People’s Choice Awards. When they told us they were interested in live-blogging functionality we immediately knew the Carrington theme framework would quickly allow for what they wanted. Live blogging: just a plugin away The live blogging mechanism has been implemented…
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JabberWerx AJAX
Jabber wanted to offer their customers a set of rich, client-side only libraries that would easily allow XMPP insertion on websites. Crowd Favorite and Jabber collaboratively defined the feature-set for the first release to include: tabbed one-to-one chat, group chat, and push notification. Since Jabber is a local Denver-based client we were able to have…
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All Things Digital
Help build a home for: Walt Mossberg’s columns and blog, Kara Swisher’s BoomTown, John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily, Wall Street Journal content, multiple other contributors, and the D Conference? Sign us up! On top of that, we integrated related posts, featured posts, ShareThis, author photographs, advertising, ethics statements, and video. It was an aggressive build schedule…
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