Mike Finazzo

Of late I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme for Ogilvy that will be used as templatized version of their newly redesigned homepage. We already have three different local agency offices that are going to be implementing the theme once it’s finished.

The newly designed company homepage works as a tag cloud that pulls in RSS feeds from throughout our network. One of the features that we’ve adapted for these local sites that the Home page for all of these will just contain the titles of the most recent posts. I’ve developed some really cool code within WordPress that allows you to see a preview of the post that you’re hovering over. The feature is very nice on this site, as there’s no actual article copy visible before you click into the post.

Another blog that I’ve been developing for Ogilvy is going live today – Off the Record.

It’s going to be an external outlet for the New York PR team within Corporate Communications. You can also check them out on Twitter @OgilvyWW.

Lately I’ve been doing some consulting and development work with Karen Schaler, creator & editor of Travel Therapy Trips. Karen is in the midst of updating her site with a new WordPress theme and is also updating the version of WordPress that she’s running.

After some time working out the kinks in the PHP and setting up the right widgets and custom fields, the site is up and looking great! Congrats again Karen! Now if only I had time for a vacation…