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Project: Custom WordPress Theme Development
Role: UI/UX Designer & WordPress Developer
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX
Project Overview
Dynargie is a fully custom WordPress theme, built from the ground up with a strong focus on performance, user experience, and editorial scalability. The project was designed as a modern content platform, combining a clean visual identity, thoughtful layout decisions, and a flexible architecture prepared for future growth.
Unlike off-the-shelf themes, every component was carefully crafted to support real-world publishing needs, content discovery, and consistent design across all screen sizes.
Key Challenges
- Designing a modern editorial layout without relying on page builders
- Ensuring visual consistency across featured posts, content grids, and layouts
- Implementing fast, seamless content search without page reloads
- Building a truly responsive, mobile-first experience
- Keeping the codebase clean, scalable, and easy to maintain
Solutions & Implementation
- 100% custom WordPress theme, developed from scratch using PHP
- Modern CSS architecture, leveraging variables, Flexbox, and Grid
- Smart content card system, with consistent heights, text clamping, and aligned CTAs
- AJAX-powered live search, featuring debounce control, visual feedback, and automatic content reset
- Editorial hero section with integrated search, improving content discovery
- Fully responsive layout, redesigned for mobile instead of simply adapted
- Scalable foundation, ready for custom post types, SEO optimization, and monetization
Project Highlights
- High performance compared to page-builder-based themes
- Clean, readable, and user-focused content presentation
- Lightweight, maintainable codebase with minimal plugin dependency
- Strong foundation for editorial platforms, personal brands, and content-driven websites
- Careful attention to UX, spacing, hierarchy, and micro-interactions
Results
- Professional, cohesive, and production-ready WordPress theme
- Fast navigation and improved content discovery
- Flexible structure that supports continuous evolution
- A real-world solution, not a concept or demo project
What This Project Demonstrates
This project highlights my ability to:
- Translate design concepts into fully functional digital products
- Develop advanced WordPress themes without page builders
- Treat design and development as parts of the same system
- Build scalable, performance-focused, and user-centered solutions
