add new features to existing Wordpress plugin

Travel / Leisure

Wordpress is great with free and low cost plugins just hook them up and away you go. After some use on a busy site you realise there's a feature that's missing that could save you time and make running your business a whole lot easier. We were contracted to add additional features to an existing booking system that the client knew they needed.

Using our understanding and experience in the Wordpress arena we took to developing an add on to the existing calendars that would dynamically retrieve booking data from the Database and display in a modal giving additional booking information at the stage it was needed.

Keep scroll position across pages

E-commerce

Ever been trawling through long lists on a site, changed pages and when you go back your at the top of the list again. This can be typical behaviour with pages and content served through Ajax calls. Our client asked if we could maintain list position for their site visitors even after the visitors had changed pages then returned.

Custom Javascript to the rescue we thought, although standard non routed JavaScript is not maintained across pages by default. So we put together a small cookie script that we could pass and retrieve multiple scroll positions across pages. Now when a site visitor goes back their scroll position is right where they were.

Custom code to interrogate the Twitter API

Travel / Leisure

Most social media platforms have API’s that can be used to collect and display data from a user or company page. We created a custom PHP class that would interrogate the Twitter API and collect tweets matching our criteria. The returned data was then styled as requested and displayed on the front end of the website. This gave the flexibility of selecting which tweets to display and choice of styling to fit the surrounding page.

Update 9 year old Wordpress site

Water industry

Alot’s changed in Wordpress in the past 9 years with most sites being updated a few times a year for the benefit of security and stability. So to make the jump from a 9 year old site to the latest version we created a local clone of the website and started updating the core and plugins through a sequence of small steps. The site was also moving to HTTPS so some custom work was required to ensure the plugins and any custom code was compatible. After some further styling updates the site was tested on multiple browsers before being deployed to the live server.

Improve products display

E-commerce

Presentation is crucial in an E-commerce store from crisp images to precise product information as well as clear user journeys. We were appointed to improve the look and feel of product pages across the site and improve engagement. The first step was to standardise the products by moving images and product data into HTML cards styled in a clean and fresh look. Building a one page system that loaded the products through a smooth animation effect really lifted the user experience and delivered a polished look and feel.