Rick Gouin

Tag: Wordpress

Release: CondoTel WordPress Plugin

· Rick Gouin

Announcing the Release of Condotel A WordPress Plugin for Property & Unit Management I’m excited to announce the release of my first WordPress plugin: Condotel.  Condotel is a lightweight, open-source plugin built especially for homeowners associations (HOAs), condo/hotel hybrids, and rental-unit operators who want an easy way to track stays, check-ins/check-outs, occupancy rates and unit utilization. Many organizations like these are required by law to maintain a register of who is “on-property”.  Condotel provides a legal way to maintain those records while also getting some useful information from it.  The plugin can also be used by anyone who wants to […]

New WordPress Theme

· Rick Gouin
Logo for the Polar Wave wordpress theme

Its been almost 3 years since I updated the theme on this website.  You can see the article about that here.  At the time, I didn’t want to spend any time on it at all, so I just found the quickest and easiest theme to implement with minimal changes.  I never really liked the theme, it lacked some features I wanted, and had a lot of wasted space. Even though I am VERY MUCH a back-end sort of developer, I decided to create my own theme from scratch, which is what you are looking at now!  I call it “Polar […]

Website Overhaul

· Rick Gouin

I had to update my website today.  I’m definitely a function over form person, and I don’t care much for frontend development.  I thought the old design was fine, but I was running an abandoned theme that was no longer being updated.  While I was looking around to see if anyone still supported my old theme, I came across this site which showed what must be some of the few remaining sites using it.  2 of their 12 sample sites were me – not a good sign! Why did I have to upgrade? I run my own webserver in AWS […]