Overview:
The Plaza Group is a real estate agency located in Orange County, California. They wanted to add a user-friendly gallery to their existing HTML website, which would allow them to manage content additions in-house, for displaying property-specific information such as videos, interior/exterior pictures, floor plans, and more.
Project:
To meet their requirements, I developed a WordPress site using a third-party supported, mobile-friendly theme that was heavily documented, reducing their reliance on external developers. This enabled them to have an easy-to-maintain site where content could be added without requiring coding knowledge. The overall design was created to mimic their current website, and the WordPress installation was installed in a subfolder, allowing the website to be on the main domain, giving the impression to the user that they were still on the main website.
One of the challenges I faced during this project was that the host for the current site was on a Media Temple shared account, which used an older version of MySQL (MySQL 5.1) that lacked support for utf8mb4. However, I was able to use WP Migrate DB to change all of the tables from utf8 to utf8mb4, enabling us to continue using Media Temple shared hosting without getting any DB errors.
