About
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life requested a yoga website as part of their mindfulness and wellbeing initiatives.
The goal was to aggregate all yoga related information (classes, resources, etc.) across the university and be the one-stop-shop for students, staff, faculty, and the community at the University Park Campus and Health Sciences Campus.
Theme
Executive Pro on Genesis Framework
Plugins Used
These are the plugins used to make the site look and function the way it does and excludes any admin plugins such as User Role Editor or CMS Tree View.
The Method
Classes
One of the original requests was to include a function to manage classes separate from events, which were to be listed on the main USC Events Calendar. However, with the advent of the COVID-19 crisis, the need to have in person classes has taken a back seat. Instead, we focused on implementing The Events Calendar to display classes as events.
While this method would essentially duplicate the efforts of the USC Events Calendar, the developers of The Events Calendar plugin offer an extension that enables changing the primary items of the calendar.
- “Events” has been changed to “Classes”
Testimonials
Another request was to add a testimonials function to the site. This is a function that is getting requested more often. While it’s possible to hard code a testimonials page or to repurpose the WordPress post. However, the more elegant solution was to use a plugin.