Creative Showcase
Description
The Creative Showcase is a curated collection of project case studies, highlighting the project's challenges, goals, solutions and performance metrics.
Goals
Content management system with easy to use interface so that the content can be added/updated without writing additional HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
Powerful and Intuitive filtering system for sorting case studies.
Search feature allowing users to use custom search terms.
Ability to share URI’s for individual case studies, filtered results list, and search results.
Additional pages for ad formats list and features list. Pages include the name of the ad format or feature along with a description, and link to an example of the ad format or feature.
Challenges
Finding an appropriate content management system that is easy to use but also flexible enough to achieve the level of custom functionality required.
Organizing case study information into reusable custom post types, each with a series of custom fields.
Setting up Wordpress to allow custom queries to the MySQL database after the page has loaded.
Resolutions
Wordpress was selected as the CMS due to its ease of use, flexibility and vast amount of available documentation.
Case studies were broken down into sizable chunks based on content and data-types, allowing for a streamlined case study form on the site's back end. This was achieved using the Custom Post Type UI and Advanced Custom Fields plugins.