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NewstyleDirect

WordPress commerce site for an Australian retail brand — custom theme, performance tuning, and ongoing product integrations. The public storefront sits at the center of a wider NewstyleDirect stack that includes internal ops tooling.

wordpress 2024 Lead developer

$ stack

  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
  • PHP
  • ACF
  • JavaScript

01 // problem

The brand needed a reliable online storefront that could handle catalog updates, promotions, and regional shipping rules without slowing down day-to-day merchandising. Peak seasons exposed fragile admin workflows: bulk price changes, campaign landing pages, and shipping exceptions each required developer time. Store staff needed to publish confidently without breaking layout or checkout.

02 // solution

Delivered a custom WordPress + WooCommerce build with a tailored theme, optimized asset loading, and admin workflows the client team can run themselves. Integrated internal tooling hooks for inventory and order flows used across the wider NewstyleDirect stack. ACF-driven sections keep merchandising flexible while the theme enforces consistent product presentation. Asset loading and image discipline keep LCP reasonable on catalog-heavy pages. Shared plugin utilities reduce duplicate PHP across sibling properties so fixes ship once.

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