Garvins Unique Garage is a website that contains a database with over 800 classic vehicles, which are used for motion picture rentals.
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Garvin’s Garage
Client
The Problem
The client had a big portfolio of vehicles, which was updated constantly by the client manually and implemented via WordPress Post Type.
The management could not keep up with the updates, because there were too many items and therefore too much work that had to be done by hand, so the client asked us to develop an automation for this.
The Solution
After all the required research we found out that there is a database of vehicles in Airtable, which client owns and they update this database and then update the website accordingly. Airtable’s sheet-based interface allows for quick and straightforward editing, so we decided to integrate it directly with the WordPress site. Since third-party solutions were limited in functionality, we developed a custom synchronization plugin.
We created a custom plugin connecting Airtable and WordPress using the Airtable API and WordPress REST, enabling data from Airtable to sync directly with WP Posts.
We made several different options, such as sync without images to save up on server time and added the possibility to use Cron for automatic syncronization based on schedule.
Besides of this, we built a front-end panel to manage the plugin options, which also was showing status and warning messages, so the manager could be in the know regarding the process anytime.
As a result, with just one click, the Airtable database is fully transferred to WordPress, eliminating the need for any manual work with the WP Post interface and streamlining the entire content update workflow.
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