Hire Collin

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I created HireCollin in 2013 as I was learning web development. Since then I’ve migrated the site to WordPress and iterated on it every 4-6 years. Born from era where everyone was trying this new thing called “blogging”, and sharing their stories and thoughts on nearly anything, for better or worse.

Problem

The last iteration of the was built in 2021, using Sage 9 as a base. At the time, Gutenberg was just forming and extremely experimental. Because of this, I opted to leveraged Advanced Custom Fields’ Flexible Content to handle a main portion of it’s template needs. As time went on, the edge cases of this system stared to show, and sections be came increasingly complex.

My site had a blog for nearly 10 years, but I never added sites that I had worked on. I never implemented a proper portfolio to showcase nearly a decade of web development and needed a way to showcase work outside of tutorials.

Solution

The new theme leverages Gutenberg’s theme.json to bring block styles for users, creating a much easier way to style and position blocks. Now that WordPress uses blocks and patterns to create custom layouts, instead of page templates, I needed to create a system that was modular and almost theme-agnostic.

Old Site	New Site
Sage 9.0.9	Sage 11.0.9
Tailwind 1.9	Tailwind 4.0.9
Webpack	Vite
Font Awesome	Blade Icons