Remote Technologies, Webpage Enhancement

Project Description:

Originally the project was described as “updating an existing web application to have payment gateway and memberships”.

In reality, it was to upgrade a half implemented WordPress site to have features that for most would be considered basic before anything else could begin, specifically a proper user database containing data that the client needed to have for their members. Normally, it would be simple, a simple task however the specific requests of the client required more fine tuning, and the host at the time was running a restricted/limited version of WordPress.

In other news, the team had to move the whole project to a new service for the client and only then implementation of the other parts could be begin. Database setup was straightforward, and using the powerful array of existing plugins available for WordPress means that the client is able to maintain and modify things going forward with relative easy and little technical knowledge.

Similarly, plugins are how the major feature of paid memberships was carried out, allowing for a safe, secure and reliable way for members to pay for their yearly subscription cost, rather than the client chasing down people manually like before.

Final feature is the ability for the client to import their old “database”, an excel spreadsheet, into the site to create a bunch of user data up-front. While ways exist to do it as a one-time process, the team instead opted to work on developing a dedicated script to allow the client to simply upload the file, and the site would handle the rest, and for as many times as they needed/wanted. In retrospect, this should have been developed as its own plugin, but is instead set up locally to the site specifically, using a combination of plugins and custom script to achieve the effect while making it as hard to accidentally break by client or otherwise after delivery.

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