During my Freshman year I’ve had the opportunity to work on the Knight Domains Community (KDC) site for my Domain of One’s Own fellowship. At the beginning of the year I knew the basics of web design but through this fellowship I have developed WordPress skills and learned about the possibilities domains and digital tools offer.
The goal of the KDC page was to exhibit websites built by the SNC community and to have people submit their sites without requiring a login. This presented my first challenge: finding a theme or plugin to do this.
The first themes I tried were by SPLOT: SPLOT Writer and Tru Collector. Both of these themes created a “form” page that allowed people to submit content. The KDC page is inspired by a site that used SPLOT Writer to curate posts. Although these themes were not as customizable as I wanted, they helped me discern what was needed for the KDC submission form (the ability to customize field descriptions and capabilities).