Case study
Digital Agency - Wordpress - Website Enhancements Development
A digital agency's WordPress site that had no code changes for seven years: a new custom search page with filters, and its taxonomies rearchitected and migrated.
Overview
Year: 2023 Agency: a digital agency
Wordpress website enhancements can be a tricky thing. That was the case in this one! It was a website which did not have any code changes to it for 7 years.
Project
Changes:
- Create a new custom posts search page
- Rearchitect the taxonomies
- Taxonomies migration
Search page features:
- Custom plugin
- Filter by taxonomy
- Filter by text
- Reset filters
- Bookmarkable url for all filters
- Load more results
- Results presented in a few different layout formats depending on the query method
- User built custom groups of posts which are like shortcuts and when clicked shows in the results set
Skills
Lots of Wordpress, CSS, JS programming!
Result
Greatly improved and impressive information discovery! Very clear UX and happy users and happy editors.