Challenge
Maintain a corporate website with a shop that needs ongoing tweaks, without every change complicating updates.
Case study
WordPress corporate website and shop with a custom plugin
WordPress corporate website and shop with a custom plugin
Corporate website and WooCommerce shop for a textile company, with a custom plugin holding all customisations and ongoing evolutive maintenance.
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Customising WordPress without losing control
A website that sells and keeps evolving needs frequent changes. If those changes go into the theme or scattered settings, every update becomes a risk. The approach was to gather customisations into a custom plugin and handle improvements in a steady, organised way.
Approach
Site customisations were grouped into a custom plugin, separate from the theme and third-party plugins, and improvements are handled by priority.
Outcome
A website that can be updated safely and evolves according to business priorities.
Technology
A stack chosen for the problem
A stack chosen for the problem
WordPress and WooCommerce as the base, plus a custom plugin holding the site-specific logic so the theme and third-party plugins can be updated without losing changes.
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Quick changes, calm updates
Keeping custom code apart from standard code is what lets a WordPress site keep growing for years without becoming fragile.
Organised code
Organised code
Customisations live in a single custom plugin.
Safe updates
Safe updates
The theme and third-party plugins update without losing changes.
Prioritised improvements
Prioritised improvements
Changes follow what matters most to the business.
Continuous evolution
Continuous evolution
The site adapts to the business without full redesigns.
What changed in running the website
This case is anonymised, so we do not publish client figures. These are the changes this way of working brought.
Less risk
Less risk
Before: changes spread across the theme and settings. Now: everything in a custom plugin.
Shop kept up to date
Shop kept up to date
Before: updating WooCommerce felt risky. Now: updates without breaking customisations.
Faster changes
Faster changes
Before: hunting for where each tweak lived. Now: custom logic in one place.
Agility
Agility
Before: every improvement was a project. Now: small, continuous improvements.
Do you have a similar challenge?
Do you have a similar challenge?
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