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  • Academy for Literary Translation

    Academy for Literary Translation

    For the Amsterdam and Antwerp based Academy for Literary Translation, we created a website where multiple pages are organized in a vertical accordion structure. The tabs of the accordion pages are intentionally set slightly askew, like the spines of books lined up in a row.

    All pages are loaded at once when the website is opened so the accordion can work smoothly. When opening the accordion pages, we adjust the browser address bar so it points to the underlying WordPress page each time. This way, browser navigation, such as back and forward browsing, continues to work.

    We also created a custom quote block for the Gutenberg block editor. In this block, the position, color, and shape of two initials can be set to project behind the quotation. The initials can be added as SVGs or taken from the font used on the website.

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  • Literair Nederland

    Literair Nederland

    For the Literary review website Literair Nederland, we developed a WordPress block theme that provides a classic newspaper-style layout.

    The theme uses a special block we developed for this purpose (building on the Gutenberg core query loop block) to show a list of intro texts and stamp-sized images based on a category or other characteristics, in such a way that when multiple lists of this kind appear on one page, the same article is never shown twice. This works by excluding the results of earlier queries in subsequent database queries.

    In addition, we developed a Gutenberg block for bibliographic data. With this block, publisher, author, cover image, and other book data can be added easily in the editor. The form also includes a button that retrieves book data in real time via an API based on ISBN.

    The old website relied heavily on custom fields for this type of book data, which led to fragmented content, made template changes cumbersome, and put heavy demands on search functionality and even on some template files.

    The new template can still display content in the legacy format (that is, WordPress content based on post_meta values and custom fields), but in the Gutenberg editor it can also detect this old content and convert it to the new system with bibliographic blocks.

    In addition, we built the following for this website:

    • Priority+ menu
      Custom-built main menu with a dynamic overflow into a submenu.
    • Newsletter template
      For the Newsletter plugin.
    • Push notifications
      With a self-hosted message server via Perfecty Push.
    • Archive
      With cover view and text view.
    • Indexed search engine
      With a search results template via the WordPress Fast Total Search plugin which, based on its download numbers, appears to be seriously undervalued .

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