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@ -15,23 +15,20 @@ Charles Stantham are a firm of made up solicitors who decided they wanted me to
The site is a fairly basic brochure site with no particularly special requirements.
And so, for this relatively simple site I decided that a 'site-builder' and a pre-made theme would be used.
And so, for this relatively simple site I decided that a 'site-builder' would be used.
## The Theme
The one chosen was [OceanWP](https://oceanwp.org/).
This uses [Elementor](https://elementor.com/) and provides a ready made, general purpose theme that can be customised for a particular use.
There were some bits of minor customisation required that were not possible through the theme's interface and so a child theme was created.
Reasons for choosing OceanWP and Elementor:
There were a number of reasons why using OceanWP is appropriate for a project such as this:
* **Quick**. Using such solutions can cut development time considerably.
This can be especially important for low budget sites.
Instead of building a site completely from scratch, a general, existing theme can be highly customised.
* **Flexible**. Although not as flexible as a bespoke theme, Elementor, and therefore OceanWP, is highly customisable.
* **Flexible**. Although not as flexible as a bespoke theme, OceanWP is highly customisable.
For features that can't be created or modified within the theme a child theme can be created and these features added on that way.
* **Extensible**. Many features are provided as extensions to the base of Elementor.
* **Extensible**. Many features are provided as extensions to the base theme.
It is also not difficult to add custom functionality if needed.
* **Lightweight**. There are a lot of popular page builders available for WordPress.
Not all of them are, relatively speaking, as lightweight or well coded.
@ -53,9 +50,19 @@ So, when working with WordPress, a theme developed from scratch should always be
However, this is not always possible given time or cost restraints and compromises may need to be made.
In these cases a site builder may be the best option.
As there were some minor customisations required that were not possible through the theme's interface, a child theme was created.
## The Plugins
Apart from Elementor, I used a limited number of plugins.
The main plugin used was [Elementor](https://elementor.com/).
Elementor is a 'Page Builder' that provides component based building blocks that can be added to a WordPress site and customised.
This has the advantage of speeding up development time considerably but brings disadvantages similar to those discussed above for using OceanWP.
Again, for this particular project, I felt the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.
Apart from Elementor, a limited number of other plugins were also used:
* [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/).
For a basic contact submission form, this is perfectly suitable.
@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ Apart from Elementor, I used a limited number of plugins.
UpdraftPlus handles these very well.
* [WP Fastest Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/).
It is always better to use server side caching such as Nginx FastCGI cashing or Varnish.
However, in cases where this isn't practical, this plugin is a very competent solution.
However, in cases where this isn't practical, this plugin is a competent solution.
* [WP Mail SMTP](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/).
It can be tricky getting mail working when using WordPress within Docker containers.
This plugin provides for a simple solution.