MeanPug WordPress Developer Challenge - Pugsly-Para

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MeanPug WordPress Developer Challenge

Challenge 1: Pugify That Site

Replicated the Airbnb homepage above-the-fold design in WordPress using Elementor Pro.

The layout includes:

• Announcement bar, header with nav, and tab row
• Search bar built with a flex container, column borders as dividers, and a styled button using Font Awesome's search icon
• Full-width hero section with left-aligned text overlay
• Three-column image row below the hero
• MeanPug pug placed as the profile avatar in the header nav

Challenge 2: Nothing's Sexier Than a Solid Schema

Before writing any code I read through the existing theme architecture (functions.php, hooks.php, schema.php, locations.php, etc, to understand what content types and field names the theme was already expecting.
This shaped the decisions that followed.

Registered in code so definitions are version-controlled and portable:

CPT	Slug	Notes
Practice Areas	practice-area	Hierarchical - supports child topic pages per snippets/content-topics-accordion.php
Attorneys	team	Slug confirmed via template_functions.php canonical map and widget queries
Offices	office	Referenced in hooks.php mp_generate_office_schema()
Testimonials	testimonials	Referenced in hooks, schema functions, and PPC landing page template
Local Pages	local	Hierarchical for state > city grouping per location navigator widget
Case Results	case-result	Prominent on both Morgan & Morgan and Milberg reference sites
FAQs	faq	Supports firm-wide FAQs beyond the per-practice-area schema_faq_items repeater
Awards	award	Referenced in PPC landing page template awards carousel

Taxonomy	Slug	Applied To
Practice Area Type	practice-area-type	team, local, testimonials, case-result, faq
Area Served	area-served	local, practice-area - referenced in location navigator widget queries
Case Type	case-type	post

ACF Field Groups

Built field groups for all CPTs with field names matching exactly what the existing theme code calls via get_field():

• Testimonials - reviewer (group > name), rating
• Office - address (group > street, street2, city, state, postal_code), geopoint
• Team - role, email, phone (link), headshot
• Local - geopoint, content_type (select: Area Served/Landing Page), practice_areas (relationship)
• Practice Areas - testimonials (relationship), schema_faq_items (group > question, answer)
• Case Results - settlement_amount, case_type, case_description, case_date, practice_areas
• FAQ - question, answer, practice_areas (relationship)
• Awards - image, year, issuing_organization
• Theme Options - contact_phone, contact_email, contact_main_address, social_profiles, schema_aggregate_rating, ask_a_question_form_id

ACF PRO Notes

Two field types in this implementation require ACF PRO:

• schema_faq_items on Practice Areas — implemented as a Group in free ACF.

  • In production this should be a Repeater to support multiple FAQ items per practice area, as the existing mp_output_additional_schema_for_post() in hooks.php loops over this field expecting multiple rows.

• social_profiles on the Options Page — same situation, implemented as a Group, should be a Repeater in production.

Options Page itself requires ACF PRO — the page registration is already scaffolded in inc/settings/all.php, field group is ready to activate once PRO is in place.

Plugins Installed

• Advanced Custom Fields (free)
• Yoast SEO
• Gravity Forms — noted as a dependency per hooks.php GFAPI references, requires license
• Max Mega Menu

Named the branch Pugsly-Para. Pugsly felt right. Sorry, not sorry.