The Exploratorium is one of our favorite San Francisco museums and it was a pleasure helping them create a shiny new press site with a lot of social media features built in. The site is built entirely in WordPress so staff can add, edit and tag posts as they go up, and use the powerful content management and search attributes of WordPress.

We did a bit of custom code here and there as well to make it even easier for them to manage.

• We built a custom template for the site so it fits right in to the current Exploratorium website, maintaining the user experience.
• Custom post templates for the press releases allow the staff to easily create a release with video or images and include content directly from exhibits on-line or link to them for reference
• Custom press kit templates allow the staff to pull together a list of press releases, video and images on the fly and create a full press kit on any exhibit easily
• Featured releases get their own space and an image on the home page using custom fields
• The whole home page is widget based, so staff can edit content without having to get into the code
• A series of galleries were constructed to highlight selected images from the museum’s vast collection
• We did on and off site training for staff and supplied them with video tutorials for reference

Take a look at the new site and give us your feedback, we’d love to hear it!