Unbored
Unbored is a project that my friend Jack Clarkson thought up. With both of us finding it hard to find work after finishing university, we teamed up and to create Unbored. Unbored is a reviews site, staff by 8 ( at time of writing November 2009) and has geek related content.
The site is based on the firm basis of WordPress, but as much of the site’s functionality needed to be added using verbose scripts. Within the theme, the functions.php file has over 1000 lines of code, adding functions such as “postimage” that collects the first image assigned to a post and displays it as a thumbnail. Also new fields in the user profiles such as short description and twitter id.
These additions to the CMS, make it completely remote manageable, with the admins of the site needing little of any coding knowledge to change the styling and content of the site from within the WordPress admin panel.
This site is one of discussion, promoting the users to comment on any post. The site is also integrated into social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. This means that users can interact with the site in and number of ways and receive updates on the social networking site of their choice.
I remain an active part of the development of the site, with new features being added on a weekly basis. The site hopes to add a new discussion forum, that has a unified login, enabling users to have one login for comments and the forum.
