Robert Parker
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Bush Cooking

A custom WordPress recipe site for outdoor cooks, built white label for a Seattle WordPress agency and still live years after launch.

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Role
WordPress Developer (white label)
When
Jan 2016 – Mar 2016
Client
Seattle WordPress agency
WordPressPHPTimber / TwigACFSCSSFoundation

Bush Cooking is an outdoor cooking site: recipes for grilling, Dutch ovens, campfires, smoking and barbecue from more than 50 contributing cooks.

I built it in early 2016 as a white-label developer for a Seattle WordPress agency, and kept maintaining it after launch. It is still live today.

What I built

  • A custom theme on Timber/Twig, SCSS and Foundation, built with Gulp and designed mobile-first with performance in mind.
  • Custom post types for recipes, with recipe rich snippets so they show up as structured results in search.
  • A rating system and custom fields built into the theme itself, rather than one more plugin to keep updated.
  • ACF for structured content, Yoast for SEO, and a homepage slider.

Why it has lasted

The site's behaviour lives in its own theme and templates rather than spread across third-party plugins, so a WordPress update has very little to break. Twig keeps the markup separate from the PHP, so later changes stay small and safe.