Tim Scott 2010: South Carolina 1st-district congressional campaign WordPress, 2010

Campaign-period WordPress® migration and ongoing site maintenance for Tim Scott’s 2010 U.S. House campaign in South Carolina’s 1st district, January through June 2010. The engagement was subcontracted through The Mace Group LLC, the digital-strategy firm running the campaign’s web presence.

The 2010 Tim Scott for Congress campaign website, January 2011 archive snapshot, showing the WordPress build delivered through The Mace Group LLC. — Campaign site, captured from Internet Archive Wayback Machine, January 8, 2011. Footer credit on the live site reads “Site designed and maintained by The Mace Group, LLC”.

What I built and ran

Migrated the existing campaign site from a custom platform onto WordPress. The brief asked for “minor design tweaks” alongside the platform move, not a full redesign, a pragmatic call given the campaign timeline.
Made design recommendations on top of the brief, kept the existing brand, and shipped the WordPress build to client-review timelines.
Stayed on as the maintenance contact through the campaign window. Examples from June 2010: same-day Internet Explorer compatibility fix and a homepage video swap requested by the client, both turned around inside the editorial day.
Worked alongside two adjacent properties in the same engagement window: Get Liberty, a companion political site, and a South Carolina taxpayer-pledge site, under a single retainer relationship with the firm.

The campaign

Tim Scott won the November 2010 general election and took office in the 112th Congress as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 1st district. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate in December 2012 to fill the seat vacated by Jim DeMint and has held that seat since. Public record throughout.

The retainer relationship that delivered this work is documented separately: The Mace Group LLC: South Carolina political-media WordPress retainer (2009–2011). Same shape as my WordPress development practice today: subcontract delivery where the client’s timeline and the firm’s account-management discipline both have to be respected.