Rebuilding Peak Prosperity's 12-year-old WordPress site

What they needed

Peak Prosperity is the web presence of Chris Martenson and the community around him, on a WordPress site that was 12 years old. The new design existed as Figma and Zeplin mockups. Content is split between free and paid: what a visitor sees depends on whether they are logged in and which subscription tier they hold.

What I built

I did the rebuild, working directly with the client from the mockups to launch.

• A rebuild from scratch, implementing the mockups in Bootstrap so the layout works on every screen size.
• Custom PHP and JavaScript for background tasks, connected to the APIs of several plugins the site uses.
• Access rules by login state and subscription tier: premium content for subscribers, general content for everyone, and ads, posts and events aimed at specific tiers.
• A filtered search that follows the same access rules, so results match what each user is allowed to see.

After launch

The work did not end at launch. The collaboration is ongoing: maintaining the site and building new features for it.