This website was created as part of a full branding project. We developed a highly customised WordPress theme to fully implement the new brand aesthetics, and to provide the client with a set of comprehensive publishing tools for a range of content.
The client had previously used WordPress, so setting up an import strategy was the starting point for this project. I imported and cleaned up the existing content, retaining all media items. We were adding some new features to posts that would be published to the new site, but wanted a seamless transition from the older to content to the new articles.
Posts are added to key categories that can be filtered. For this effect I integrated the excellent MixItUp library into the theme.
There is a range of content types published on the site. In order to organise this content and make a user friendly experience for the client, I created custom post types for each.
There were multiple points in the website that needed to feature the latest posts. We created a template part that could be included across multiple page templates which generated a carousel of recent posts.
Using a similar method to display them, I also created an easy way for the client to enable and select related content for a specific post. There were also many other custom CMS features, such as being able to hide posts from the main loop, particularly useful to cut down on repetition when multi-part features were spread across posts.
