Deliveroo Freelancing
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Deliveroo ordered me Deliveroo at the Deliveroo HQ!
Working for Deliveroo was an absolutely amazing experience. The job was a really complex multi-site, multi language, custom theme built in .twig.
Their offices are the most amazing ones I have ever seen in my life. In the middle of the office is a full scale basketball court. The meeting rooms contain swinging chairs and incased digital touch screens.
I cannot thank Rory Russell enough for this amazing experience. And I haven’t even started talking about the work yet.
The WordPress for their roocommunity.com website was outsourced to a professional WordPress development company.
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the code
About this project
Theory:
The template wasn’t built in PHP but in Timber .twig files. Due to the tight timescale I only had a couple of days to learn how to write this new language.
Finding the right PHP files to edit within the custom theme was complicated. I had to use the search features from sublime text editor to retrieve functions and arrays hidden in particular files.
Working on it:
On top of that they use the advanced custom fields plug-in, yet there was absolutely no mention of the modules that were appearing in the WordPress dashboard in the plug-in section.
I came to realise that the options of advanced custom fields were written completely inside of arrays.
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Conclusion
Advanced WordPress development
I was given a Photoshop design by a member of the design staff there. So I proceeded to cut it up and integrate into custom HTML and CSS.
I also used a ring fence div to stop my CSS code conflicting with theirs. I noticed Bootstrap CSS was integrated onto the WordPress platform they were using so I used that to create the responsive elements contained within the design.
I wasn’t given a responsive version of the Photoshop design so I had to make it up on the fly using my knowledge of bootstrap CSS.
Best of the project:
At their request I did manage to integrate a WYSIWYG editor so that the delivery staff could add custom HTML to the pages.
I hope you enjoy looking at the work as much as I enjoyed making it. Archie Butler.