https://www.amyporterfield.com/
I have a new client who has been kind of snuffing me off acting like they don't think I'm capable of things I did for other people for 15 years. They told me they like this website and I said I could "probably" make something like that, but they didn't like that answer, so I want to just rebuild the exact website and show them that I can. The reason I worded it that way was because they were very specific that they want someone who knows how to make a website EXACTLY THE SAME as that (they don't want the final result to be the exact same, they just want someone who could make that website).
I've already showed them my extensive portfolio of websites that I've built for plenty of happy and returning clients, where I coded them by hand, but they're so sure they need to use wordpress and they want to be able to recreate this exact website for some reason. I never got into wordpress because I don't really like templates because they confine me to a box, so I always build websites where I can access the code to make any changes I want, but if they want me to learn wordpress, I can do that.
So if anyone knows how I can find this template amongst the bazillions of templates available, I would appreciate the help. If I could build this exact website the way it is, they would finally believe me that I have the ability to do that.
crossing my fingers someone here can help me 🙂
This is definitely not a standard WP theme. Looks like it’s using a service called Showit (showit.com) which piggy-backs off of WP? I could be wrong, however; I’ve never heard of this service.
It doesn’t matter which theme you use.
Everything can be built with Elementor builder and some custom coding.
If you need a helping hand, I would like to work with you.
You can hand code a custom theme to look exactly however you want. WordPress just gives your client CMS capabilities.
This sounds like a client i wouldn’t want to work with. Mistrust from the start is not really a good basis for good collaboration.
Also, do they actually know what they want and do they have the budget? ‘Build something like this’ is not a good briefing.
You could create any theme/template for WordPress. Just do the same design as a simple HTML page with CSS, and then read WP documentation how to make theme, add all php code for a menu, header, footer parts, some additional templates for blog page, single page, 404. And you got your theme. It is not a problem if you know php and how all these things work together.
It seems they may have been correct? You were also correct using “probably”.
For me I always say yes of course, because replicating a website is part of our daily job and is very simple to do. In WordPress or not.
I can tell you how to do it. Go to waybackmachine and grab the website html. Then replicate.
And the site seems to be from this builder;
https://showit.com/ so you could sign up and recreate it there in WordPress.
This site is butt ugly if I was asked to create it that would result in a hard hell no from me. I do nice work. Text flowing out of containers gets you nowhere in this biz.
The site is using the Showit CMS system. My understanding is it is not a wordpress based system but they appear to have coded their framework to read and apply WordPress hooks so that WP plugins can function in ShowIt, and content can be ported.
They are serving the site using a CDN and initially serving a static page, so the content loads quickly. In chrome using Lighthouse to test Desktop it tested:
* 75 for performance
* 88 for accessibility
* 74 for Best Practices
* 100 for SEO
Not terrible but not great. The website is a business card type site so most traffic to it would be driven by other means, and via the CDN and static delivery render fast enough that “page speed” is fast and any issues immaterial to the typical viewer interest in the website content.
As others have stated you can replicate the design of this site easily in WordPress.
install a plugin like buildWith, or wappalizer, and take a look under the hood.
somebody already told you this is Showit.
but I would be careful with this client. I’d make a graph solution first, make them approve, and then go to the next stage. Make a plan in advance, force them to approve and pay every stage. Otherwise you could deliver a finished site, and they could just say ‘meh, we don’t like it.’
also, if all your sites were coded by hand, you will have a bad time in WP and other CMS’s, as there is a lot to learn if you don’t have a workflow yet. One of my programmer ex-colleges called working in it ‘building a frankenstein’.
I would advise walking away from this non-client.
You could get an exact back-up of this site, add in their content and they still would not be happy.
As for that site, it’s one of the most basic sites I’ve seen – pretty sure if you know php and css this shouldn’t be any problem.