Nexter

A WP theme excercise focused on building a responsive WP front page from scratch using https://underscores.me/ generated template

Plugins - 1 x plugin - Advanced Custom Fields PRO - Adds Options page to admin

CSS - No framework fo any kind. Use of CSS GRID & Flex. Class naming - BEM convention.

jquery - Not used

Custom Post Types: Realtors, Features, Properties

ACF Field Groups

Features are posts under the here area. CPT Features.

show_feature -  T/F field set by default to T.  If unchecked, post will not appear on front page. 

fa-icon - Accepts a Font Awesome HTML tag to form a symbol (icon) for the post

Logos allow changing the logos in the here area (top of page)

top-logo - Image url. Main centered top most logo. Can be changed as needed from Media library.

seen_on_logo_1 .. seen_on_logo_4 - Image url. Can be changed as needed from Media library.

Properties this ACF field group of total 6 fields feed the property cards - CPT Properties.

country - Text field for country name.

rooms - Number field with steps of 0.5

floor_area - Number field. Denotes the floor area in sq. meters.

price - Number. The price is in USD.

contact_label - Text field. Allows customization of card button with default set to 'Contact Realtor'.

show_propety -  T/F field set by default to T.  If unchecked, post will not appear on front page. 

Realtors The posts appearing at the right of the hero area. CPT Realtors.

house_sold - Numbe field that deontes how many houses each realtor sold. This info appears below the realtor's name.

show_realtor - T/F field set by default to T. If unchecked, post will not appear on front page.

Notes:

The custom query sorts the realors in DESC order based on the number of houses each sold.

Also when a realtor is hidden, the title above the Top 3 changes as needed based on actual count of realtors shown.

Slider

slider_title - Text field. Shows be default 'Trending Properties'.

slider_gallery - Gallery field. Creates an array of images URLs. An array variable is passed by json_encode (line 240 on front-page.php) where slider.js uses it to manipulate the slides.

Story

bg_image - Image url field. Sets background image for the story

ol_image - Image url field. Sets the overlayed image that is centered over the background image.

os_image - Image url field. Sets the off set image that croses the centerline to the right.

story_opener - Text field. Value can be set on options page.

story_title - Text field. Value can be set on options page.

story_text - Text field. Value can be set on options page.

story_button_label - Text field. Value can be set on options page.

Footer

Footer is a dynamic menu. It also responsive. On small screens it becomes verticls using Flex column.

**Notes **

-Font Awesome Pro icons package installed with npm

-sass/nexter folder contains all actualy sass component files the correspond with mathing html

-main.scss imports all component _scss files

-Theme variables:  Color Variables, Font variables, Break Point variables found on /sass/_base.scss

Migration Notes to Production Server

 - Migration steps included:
    a. Uploading fresh copy of WordPress.zip and exctracting .zip. Removing all default themes.
    b. Cloning this repo into theme folder
    c. Copying local uploads folder with all media (outside this repo) to production server
    d. Exporting local database and editing the database (find replace...)
      - //nexter.local to production URL
      - //app/public  to /public_html/<folder-name>
    e. Importing above modified datbase into an empty databse on production site.
    f. Installing local plugins on remote (outside this repo)
    g. Copying local wp-config to production server and editing to match production env.
    h. Adding security plugin - hardening the site