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Jamie Sanchez

Designer, Web Dev, Consultant

  • Simple WooCommerce Snippets to paste and modify

    Rapidly augment your WooCommerce store through hooks and actions, little references in the source code that allow us to inject our own code without it getting deleted later. I’ve collected a bunch of these snippets, and thought a fledgling developer would appreciate them, too. Here’s a growing list of my favorites! Instructions Global Options Make your custom WordPress theme WooCommerce compatible Note: Check for this if your store is acting up! Many quirky things can…

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  • State of WordPress 6.4

    Nerd Alert… If you couldn’t tell, I drink the WordPress koolaid. It’s missing some advanced features, but nothing that a couple of trusty plugins and 30 lines of CSS can’t handle. What’s new in 6.4? Why care? The Editor’s gotten some polish with photo lightboxes, group background images, and enhanced List View to better organize your content. Jamie M’s tour summarizes it well. For content managers: unless you’re building a directory, we no longer need…

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  • WordPress is 20 – the mixed reality from a consultant’s perspective

    Chicago’s anime fans circa 2006 had a problem. Some incredible Japanese films and cultural events were happening around the city, and no one was hearing about them. There’s only one solution, right? Buy a domain! AnimeChicago.com launched in November of that year. My dev experience then was FrontPage, Dreamweaver, phpbb, and other justifiable reasons to hack at code, like LiveJournal. But this new project required an easy way to publish content and iterate templates as…

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  • Bit Bash Presents: Fabricade

    In Fall 2018, we opted for a smaller “Bit Bash Presents” event in lieu of our huge festival due to a venue opportunity. We packed the venue and showcased twelve games throughout the evening. I was charged with creating a visual identity that meshed well with the start-up/coworking feel of our generous hosts. Fabricade was born of 60s-style VHS covers, futurism posters, and a bootstrap attitude.

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  • Curiouser

    I took the full-time plunge as a digital marketing consultant in Oct 2014. I serve nonprofits, communities, and indie game developers through website development, WordPress optimization, identity design, and more. It’s been a wild ride!

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  • AnimeChicago Rebrand

    Full branding and logo overhaul for AnimeChicago’s 10th anniversary.

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  • The Men Who Wear Many Hats

    Logo, branding, WordPress development for local indie game studio.

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  • Chicago Makes Games

    A simple calendar and resource page for Chicago-area indie developers. WordPress on the backend makes updating simple and painless.

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  • Indie Boothcraft

    Many people don’t understand the effort it takes to market a game, let alone book, build, and run an exhibition booth. It’s grueling, tiring, passionate work. You’re on your feet for hours promoting a game that hasn’t even launched yet, building momentum for that big push that makes or breaks first-day sales. Yet – there are booths that have no clue. The logo is hard to read. The demo is broken. There’s no actionable item for their visitors to take. They wasted $3,000…

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  • Train Jam Website

    Full-featured WordPress website for Indie Train Jam. Includes custom fields for streamlined homepage updates, automated games archive, announcement section, and sticky FAQ navigation.

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