A new look and architecture for KV

Kutchvalley website has been upgraded to a new look and a slightly modified architecture. This was due since a long time. The colors are not final and will change in coming days. Some features have been disabled for the time being and will be brought back slowly (For example: the ability to “like” something, polls, recos, etc).

Here is what is changing broadly:
1) WordPress has been upgraded to the latest version 3.8.1. Alternative Content Management Systems were explored but we decided to persist with WordPress in the end.

2) Kutchvalley is now more tightly integrated with WordPress than before. We have moved WordPress from kavita.kutchvalley.com to kutchvalley.com itself. This will allow us to use the many available wordpress plugins for the various features of the website. Blog URLS will change from http://kavita.kutchvalley.com?p=123 to a more descriptive http://www.kutchvalley.com/2014/03/a-new-look-and-architecture-for-kv/123

3) We have gone with the powerful Tempera theme which is “responsive” and offers many config options to the admin. If you visit kutchvalley.com on the mobile, the layout will adjust itself to fit the mobile screen.

4) An eventual consistent look and feel across the various pages. Currently some pages (like the Archives) will still look like the old kutchvalley.

5) Various features of kutchvalley will now be developed as WordPress plugins. This will lead to cleaner and maintainable code. And the admins can turn on/off various features and move widgets around easily.

There are lot of other pending changes that we plan to do to bring back the eyeballs back to kutchvalley from other social media :-). And hopefully this will happen soon.

In the meanwhile if you find something broken on the site, please report it in the comments section for this post.