Diving in media res

The main site runs on a pro version of the AccessPress Parallax theme with a child theme that had been created to display featured images as hero images on certain pages. Before getting started on implementing the home page redesign, I delved into the code to see how the theme was put together in order to prevent any repetition on my end.

Hard-coding ?! In this day and age ?

One of the first things I noticed about the child theme was that one of the two menus was hard-coded into the header. And although the menu was not subject to further changes, I wanted to give the site managers the option to make changes if it became necessary in the future. Part of the redesign also included changing the mobile navigation from two drop-down menus to a single off-canvas menu. Due to this, I removed the hard-coded menu from the child theme and made the menu dynamic.

De-cluttering the home page

Although the site runs on AccessPress Parallax Pro, the site managers wanted to move away from the theme options panel due to its complexity. To this end, I moved the ability to add home page section content from pages to the Customizer. This way, they would still be able to use created pages in order to display section content but would not have to navigate the theme options panel.