Copy-and-paste PHP, CSS, and JavaScript for the WordPress problems we keep running into.
COVESA needed an events page that sorted itself, with upcoming events on top and past events below, and nobody logging in to move one from one list to the other. A custom post type, a date field and two small shortcodes did it. Here is why I skipped the obvious plugin.
Once you have decided that snippets beat a child theme, you still have to pick the manager. I run all three across a portfolio of client sites. What actually separates them is where the code is stored, how you get it back out again, and which one hands out role based access.
A hand built stock photo storefront taking real orders every week was stuck on PHP 5.5, dead since 2016, with a host shutdown date approaching. No test suite, no staging, and a fixed price quoted before anyone opened the code. Eleven major versions sounds like a rewrite. Here is why it was not.
COVESA lists more than 80 member companies on a single page, and visitors needed to regroup that wall of logos by industry and by membership level without reloading. Here is how the directory actually works on a Divi site, and the tradeoffs I accepted in order to ship it.
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COVESA publishes across six categories and well over a hundred tags, and readers need to filter that list without losing numbered pagination. That combination is where most attempts break. Here are the decisions behind the build: why I skipped the plugins, and the three things that bit me.
My customer was annoyed by the default Divi smooth scrolling action when navigating to anchor text.
The customer needed to display member listings (logos) on the site, but wanted the logos to be listed dynamically.
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