Armag Afrique — Advanced WordPress Development

WordPress as a Development Platform, Not Just a CMS

Armag Afrique is a company specializing in construction, real estate development, and mining. Its property portfolio includes apartments, individual houses, residential complexes, and commercial or professional premises.

For this project, I designed and developed the company's website using WordPress. The approach went beyond installing a theme and configuring existing plugins.

Customizing WordPress at Multiple Levels

My work involved several layers of the CMS:

• Themes: Modifying and adapting existing code to meet the website's requirements.
• Templates: Restructuring templates to control how pages and content are rendered.
• Plugins: Developing custom extensions to implement required functionality.
• Content structure: Adapting how content is organized and presented.

This approach makes it possible to address specific requirements without being limited to the capabilities of a ready-made theme or page builder.

Understanding How WordPress Works

Custom WordPress development requires an understanding of the CMS lifecycle, its hooks, template hierarchy, and extension mechanisms.

For example, a plugin can use a hook to register functionality at the appropriate point in the execution lifecycle, while a template controls how a particular page type is rendered.

<?php
 
add_action('init', function () {
    register_post_type('real_estate_property', [
        'labels' => [
            'name' => 'Properties',
            'singular_name' => 'Property',
        ],
        'public' => true,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'show_in_rest' => true,
        'supports' => [
            'title',
            'editor',
            'thumbnail',
        ],
    ]);
});

This snippet illustrates one WordPress development approach; it is not a confirmed implementation from the actual website. A custom post type could, for example, be used to manage real estate properties separately from standard pages.

Project Objective

The goal was to build a website tailored to Armag Afrique's identity and requirements, with a customized structure and the flexibility to extend its functionality beyond WordPress's standard configuration.

This project demonstrates my ability to work directly with a CMS's underlying code, understand its architecture, and adapt it to specific business needs.