Squanch Games

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Sometimes, WordPress isn’t WordPress. The amount of page builders and editors are many and varied, and can change everything you think you know about WordPress.

I was contacted by Ben and Jordyn at Squanch Games to take a look at their site, and see if there was anything that could be done with the current set up. The site was put together with Oxygen – a page builder – that I could not make head nor tail of… which made the team feel a bit better about the situation!

We agreed that if they were to take proper ownership and daily updating duties for the upcoming release of High On Life 2, the admin area needed to be more WordPress. Here’s a nice challenge, how efficiently can I rebuild an existing site using my standard ACF integration and hand coded theme templates?

Since the design was in place, and all graphics available, this gave me a massive headstart, and whilst I didn’t copy the HTML and CSS verbatim (page builders generate way too much div clutter) I obviously had good visuals to run with, and could inspect code and match type/colours/spacing etc.

There were places were I’d change how something worked, or change the design as I’m deep diving into the UX etc, but I enjoyed this project, a different flavour of dev work.