NAME
clinic-website — A clinic website rebuilt by hand from WordPress, with an editor the staff use
SYNOPSIS
A small clinic’s WordPress site, rebuilt without plugins, with a page editor the clinic runs itself.
SITUATION
A small health clinic. Its WordPress site needed plugins patched all the time, and staff could not change a page without help.
WHAT I CHANGED
- Rebuilt the site by hand, with no WordPress and no plugins to keep patching.
- Built a block-based page editor, so the clinic changes its own pages.
- Contact-form requests go straight to the clinic’s own inbox.
- Built a staging copy and compared it with the live site before the switch-over.
- Moved the site to a virtual server the clinic owns.
HOW IT WAS CHECKED
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Staging copy matching the live site before switch-over | — | 16 of 16 checks |
| Plugins to patch | WordPress plugins | 0 |
- Compared the staging copy with the live site on 16 checks; all 16 matched before the switch-over.
- The site stores no patient information.
STACK
- Hand-written PHP
- nginx
- virtual server