5 December 2024
GitHubOriginal Wordpress Site New Website - Sveltekit Rebuild
Care Culture contracted a web development company to design and build the initial version of the Original Wordpress Site. What we received was a good starting point template based on the theme "Twenty Twenty-Three".
As I combed through the theme's PHP, it became clear that many shorts were taken. Most notably, the majority of the custom code implemented for various sections was chucked into the footer, content was hardcoded into the PHP, and many of the dynamic "Customize" wordpress sections updated nothing.
After a couple weeks of working on the site, polishing the UI, fixing bugs, adding content and hooking up the contact form, the site was professional, appealing to customers and launched. There were some small gripes, but ultimately fixing these minor issues was not worth the time investment and were only noticeable to me!
As I ramped up my web dev, and after spending a good amount of time building the Field App, I decided it was time to test myself with this rebuild!
The most complex part of this rebuild will be obtaining the same functionality that Readabler provided on Wordpress. I considered building this from scratch, but also found acc_toolbar which I should hopefully be able to customise. If not, looks like it might be another project!