My friend asked me to help out with a website for his new business idea to organize sport weekends for men only. It is mix of sport and relax with some education. Check it out active-relax.cz
I haven’t worked with WordPress for several years, so i was a bit curious how it would go. First impression wasn’t that great due to Woocommerce plugin having some performance issues in admin area.
We went though the classic steps of choosing the theme and dowloading the common plugins. Designing the front page and then going through all the steps that user would go.
Since we have done it from scratch, there was many things to cover and my friend correctly stated, that it was actually a lot of things to do. Meaning for each website/shop there are many things to consider and set up.
Our main tasks were
- registration form for multiple people
- various event types
- payments
- email notifications
- orders export
We managed most of it with plugins and then some parts had to be customized via functions.php in child-theme and some javascript on specific pages. It was quite nice to use vanilla javascript instead of jQuery for selectors.
It had to be created fast to test the idea and allow people to register. Another business reason was to showcase it for potential partners. So I had to put aside quite a few things and family. Worked on it during the nights and weekends and made the deadline end of June. I think the pause for the articles is justified.