Lawyerist

I received a high-fidelity Adobe XD design and converted it into a fully custom, responsive WordPress theme for Lawyerist. The build focused on clean architecture, flexible content management, strong performance, and a polished front-end that matches the design precisely across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Live project: https://lawyerist.com/
XD design: https://xd.adobe.com/view/45b14d77-c259-4dfc-97bc-5e9193c45ba8-10e2/

Highlights

• Architected, developed, and maintained a custom WordPress theme with reusable blocks and scalable patterns.

• Implemented clean, maintainable PHP using OOP and MVC-style organization where appropriate.

• Built flexible content systems using ACF and ACF Blocks for reusable layouts and editor-friendly publishing.

• Extended WordPress via core APIs, hooks, filters, and REST API endpoints to support custom behaviors.

• Designed and optimized data handling with SQL-aware performance considerations and structured queries.

• Delivered strong UX fundamentals with security hardening, accessibility improvements, and performance optimizations.

• Snowflake (KPI warehousing + event-driven delivery) · Internal webhook receiver (KPI ingestion) · Member dashboard (auth-gated analytics views)

Resources Used

• WordPress Core (Template hierarchy, Theme support APIs, hooks/filters like after_setup_theme, wp_enqueue_scripts, pre_get_posts; classes like WP_Query, WP_Post, WP_Term; REST API via rest_api_init)

• mySQL (query optimization, index-aware patterns)

• ACF + ACF Blocks (acf/init, flexible field groups)

• JavaScript (vanilla, jQuery, AJAX, WP script enqueue)

• SCSS + CSS Frameworks (Sass architecture, component styling with Bootstrap)

• Build Tooling (Node.js, npm, Gulp) for asset pipelines and dependency management

• UI / Motion (GSAP), plus experience with React / JSX for component-driven interfaces

Pre-Launch Checklist (Build & QA)

• Confirm XD-to-theme fidelity across breakpoints (desktop/tablet/mobile).

• Validate ACF + ACF Blocks editing experience.

• Review PHP architecture (OOP structure, MVC-style organization, reusable helpers).

• Verify WordPress hooks/filters and REST/API functionality, including AJAX flows.

• Validate SQL-related performance

• Implement and validate Schema.org structured data (JSON-LD where appropriate) to support rich results and consistent entity markup:

  • Site-wide Organization/Person + Website schema

  • Article/BlogPosting schema for editorial content

  • BreadcrumbList schema for navigational hierarchy

  • Verify with Google’s Rich Results Test / Schema validation tools and confirm no critical errors