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Hi, I have huge respect for you and what you did at the NYer, it's a great site. I guess my point is... how would you break down the functionality of those sit

Hi, I have huge respect for you and what you did at the NYer, it's a great site. I guess my point is... how would you break down the functionality of those sites by Wordpress core, themes or plugins, and custom code? How much of what makes those sites great comes "out of the box" from Wordpress, vs being bolted on or written from scratch?

donohoe 8y ago
For The New Yorker, the main site (sections, articles, tag pages) was its own theme. We used off-the-shelf plugins for for curation/features: ACF, EditFlow, Yoast (SEO). We also used custom Plugins for building out curation and full content feeds for our iOS app, managing podcasts, and AB testing. Quartz was different. We only relied on the WP editorial UI (with EditFlow plugin) and simplified the templates to just deliver JSON (this was before they had the JSON-API in core).We built an independent web app on top of that. Hope that helps answer your questions.