About The Eagle's Nest
The Eagle's Nest has been published at Rhea County High School since 1996. Our print version was produced by JS Printing, who did a fine job. In 2009, The Eagle's Nest moved exclusively to the web. Our site is hosted by Surpass Hosting.
Web site details
The Eagle's Nest web site is published with WordPress, using a custom theme. Our headlines are set in Prenton Condensed, from TypeKit.
WordPress plugins we couldn't live without:
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- Akismet
- Of course!
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Allows the addition of custom field data to posts. We make heavy use of this to add extra data to posts—everything from source links for Around the Web articles to ASIN numbers for book and CD reviews. This basically makes our site possible!
- Better Tag Cloud
- Creates the tag cloud on the Around the Web Archive page.
- Lightbox 2
- Handles display of enlarged pictures in individual article posts.
- Custom Post Type Archives
- Allows separate templates for Reviews, School & Community posts, etc.
- Role Manager
- On the back-end, allows very specific customization of specific user privileges.
- Contact Form 7
- Handles our Contact page, as well as other special forms, sometimes.
- Edit Flow
- Adds a host of collaboration features to the WordPress back-end.
- WP-Polls
- Manages our front-page polls.
- WP Grins Lite
- Clickable smilies for comments.
- Google Calendar Events
- Displays our Google Calendar data on the front page sidebar.
