Bed and Breakfast Nationwide is the most challenging WordPress based site I have built so far. Wrapped around the core fuictionalities of the platform is a custom plugin to allow the administrator to perfom various task, update contact details and add some custom functionalities to the admin panel.
http://www.bedandbreakfastnationwide.com/
The first part of the project involved importing the existing Access database to WordPress. The first solution I came up with was to create a xml file in the WordPress import format and have WordPress importing it. This worked brilliantly for normal posts and images but the meta data attached to each post could not be imported due the complexity of it.
My second attempt was successful and used the built in functions wp_create_category, wp_insert_post and add_post_meta.
Another interesting part of the project was to create the members only page. I developed a special template for the page and used a custom form and few tricks to get it work. You can view the code in this article: The (almost) ultimate members page in WordPress.
I also did the implementation of the design created by one of my colleague and all the cosmetic work (javascript, maps, etc…).
