WordPress Theme

Background

Before this site moved to Astro, it ran on WordPress with a custom theme. I wanted a theme that was:

• Flexible, with lots of options for formatting content
• Well-documented and well laid-out
• Accessible

Implementation

I built the theme on top of WordPress’s Twenty Twenty-One default theme, which offered a flexible full-width container, well-organized template parts, thorough inline documentation, and an accessibility-first design.

Project Template

As part of the theme, I wrote content-project.php, a template part used on both the project archive and individual project pages. It handled:

• Conditional logic for singular vs. archive views
• Custom field handling for project completion dates using PHP’s DateTime class
• Display of the custom taxonomies attached to each project
• WordPress template functions for titles, excerpts, and featured images

This template work fed directly into the Project CPT and Custom Taxonomies project.