Preschool & Kindergarten Website Feedback

[elmsoftware]

I just finished my first WordPress site for our Preschool & Kindergarten.
Wanted to share with the community…hear your thoughts.

Here is the site: [http://stmatthews-school.org/](http://stmatthews-school.org/ “http://stmatthews-school.org/”)

It was done using the methods shown by Chris’ Lodge redesign instructional videos.

**My development environment:**
* MacBook Pro Retina
* CodeKit + Compass + SCSS
* MAMP
* Transmit to push the files (no beanstalk)

**Wordpress Plugins**
* Advanced Custom Fields
* Advanced Custom Fields: Repeater Field
* Akismet
* Art Direction
* Clean Notifications
* Email Login
* Groups
* Jetpack by WordPress.com
* St. Matthew’s School Custom Plugin
* The Events Calendar
* Ultimate Coming Soon Page (before site was launched)
* W3 Total Cache
* WordPress SEO
* WP Clean Up
* Wysija Newsletters

Thank you (to everyone) for posting and sharing on this site. I deeply believe this site is one of the best learning tools around.

All the best,

John Lueders

[elmsoftware]

@deeve007 Thanks for replying. I tried to be mindful of my plugins…the Ultimate Coming Soon one is no longer needed, so that is -1 from the list. Almost all are key. (Art Direction isn’t used, but I know is popular). The WP Clean Up plugin is one of my favorites because it cleans up the database real nice.

@attilahajzer Thank you for your thoughts. Concerning adding more green, I will see what I can do. The church’s ‘primary’ colors are red and blue so I did feature them more. The site will be told to the moms and dads soon, so I still have time to tweak. The calendar title I believe will come to life after some events are entered. The calendar is by Modern Tribe and they just released their v 3.0 and it is really cool. The post and the events both get ‘filtered’ by the logged in user via the ‘Groups’ plugin. So if you are a parent in a 3-YR class then you only see what is applicable to your classroom. The Events Calendar played perfectly nice with the ‘Groups’ plugin. Time.ly’s calendar did not. Thanks again for writing.

[ajnoguerra]

I think this website is a success! :) awesome!

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