A Site Needing A LOT of Work!

After just recently reviving Hartville Outdoor Products online, the other business, Kids World needed attention as well. Hartville needed a massive makeover that required a new website to be developed. Kids World looked okay enough to at least keep up for a couple of years. The key difference from Hartville Outdoor Products and Kids World is that Kids World actually has an ECommerce platform and with that being said, a new build will take longer. Hartville just has you calling them for a price or sending a form submission online to their sales team to discuss a product for the time being. You can actually buy things on the Kids World website so this needed a lot of attention.

Once Hartville launched and we met, we had a handful of wishlist things for Kids World. Although we were determined to get started on it, I found so many issues on the website on a backend sense and needed to update the code immediately. I got right on that and cleared 154 PHP Warnings, 3 Fatal Errors that would appear if I updated the site to the latest versions of WordPress, PHP and MYSQL. I also upgraded the security practices around their Database and Purchasing Process so customers were even more protected than they already were with their SSL Certificate. I also needed to clear 887 JavaScript errors and warnings printed out in the client-side console on the website. Once that was done, which took me about a week, I got right to work on their requests. 

I made an outstanding number of things that needed to be completed to fruition though a short period of time. I upgraded their Showrooms and Specials Page and added a Request a Quote page with a new form integrated that would compliment the customer’s needs before they were to purchase an item online. I added a Delivery Options for purchasing options using Gravity Forms on the website and integrated it for their Basketball Hoops and Trampolines.

If you use the Delivery Options, it updates the price. I really love Gravity Forms assists when I develop quick solutions for customers as it can be extremely helpful for customers like this. It is a secure and great proven process that is quick and efficient. 

I then changed some styling on the pages as well such as adding the playful font on the buttons on the site as well. I added a Specials scroll functionality and Top Sellers scroll functionality based on the request from the customer. I then also added a Top Sellers page showcasing the PDF and linked it to the top of their Swing Sets Product Category Feed. I also added Social Media buttons to the footer for SEO purposes. 

Another thing I did as well was added a filter to hide filter options that the customer did not anyone to see such as popularity and reviews on WooCommerce products. You can only do that by PHP functions. 

I also instantiated a new PHP 7.4 staging server and tested the site on PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4 and everything checked out well. I did a sync and the site not only loads faster, but the process of getting to purchasing, shopping and viewing the site is more smoother on a front and back end aspect. Kids World is not only covered, but they also provide premium products for your backyard and what a time to buy things from Kids World right now. 

This is why my All-In-One service is so vital for businesses, it keeps your systems secure, updated and at best practice with keeping you at the top of the heap of search engines. I am proud to be a partner for these many accounts that allow me to continue helping them along the way.

Get your kids that swing set, basketball hoop or trampoline as we are all crammed in for now! Visit Kids World today! Stay tuned with Kids World too as there is more to come!

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