Abraham Lincoln University is an online law school offering live, interactive Juris Doctor degrees and other online law degrees and programs.
ALL PROJECTS
Abraham Lincoln University
Client
Goal
The goal of this project was to develop a WordPress website from scratch for the university, based on design mockups provided by the client.
The challenge was to implement a complex content structure for Schools, Degrees, and Programs. Each School contains multiple Degrees, and each Degree has various Programs connected to it. All content for each of these entities is fully editable from the website’s admin panel.
HOW WE DID IT
Planning is an essential part of the development process – especially when dealing with numerous interconnected data points. In this case, we had a complex structure of Schools, Degrees, and Programs.
Each of these needed to be a dynamic post type and required connections to one another. To successfully implement the given structure, we created a technical specification document that outlined all data points in the database and defined how they should relate. The document also detailed how content management should function across each of the pages.
CUSTOM WORDPRESS ARCHITECTURE
We received the design from the client, which included dynamic templates that changed based on school type and other variables. These variations were carefully considered during implementation.
To support this, we used custom post types to structure key data points and manage them as database records. The rest of the system was built with custom functions on top of this structure, enabling the necessary relationships between different data types.
This allowed us to avoid third-party plugins entirely, relying only on core WordPress and custom code. As a result, the solution remains flexible, lightweight, and free from ongoing plugin maintenance requirements.
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