Scalable Dealer Locator Development for US & Canada on WordPressScalable Dealer Locator Development for US & Canada on WordPress
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Bree Sharp
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• May 10
A North American animal nutrition brand needed a dealer locator that could scale from 9 Canadian provinces to all 50 US states without bolting on a third-party SaaS map plugin. The existing implementation was a static page with broken pin rendering and no geographic structure underneath it.
Architecture: Custom dealer post type backed by a hierarchical dealer_cat taxonomy, structured so future region-level grouping (Northeast US, Mountain West, etc.) wouldn't require schema changes down the line. CMB2 fields handle all dealer metadata. Front-end finder UI integrated directly into the existing custom theme — no plugin UI layer.
Deploy pipeline: Full Pantheon Dev → Test → Live SFTP workflow across all environments before production push.
Stack at a glance:
- CMS: WordPress on Pantheon
- Custom: Post type + hierarchical taxonomy (CMB2)
- Theme: Custom theme integration
- Deploy: Pantheon multi-environment SFTP
Skills: WordPress · Custom Post Types · Taxonomies · CMB2 · Pantheon · PHP · Custom Theme Development · Geographic Data Structure · WordPress Development
UX EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentMySQLPHPWordPress
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