I have not done any WordPress type of development in years and I am interested in reverse engineering a WordPress site. I know how to view page source and see the plugins it uses such as buddyboss pro for example, but I mean I want to see how it developed the sidebar menu that it uses and just kind of get the bones of the site copied and I can go from there and probably even improve on it.
I know once you are in the site it has a google maps on a left hand panel, it has a hero page at the top with a search bar in the hero part where you can search a list that exists on the right hand side using certain criteria.
I know it uses buddboss pro, elementor pro, it uses active campaign subscription forms or something like that, it uses woocommerce, but still not sure how to reverse engineer this thing. I tried downloading buddyX, I had not yet downloaded woocommerce at the time, but still, buddyX did not seem to offer a sidebar menu.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
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Thanks for what? You literally don’t ask for anything.
You don’t need to use the same plugins and theme. As long as your re-creation looks and does the same thing, you did it.
The sidebar feature you’ve described does not contain enough information for specific guidance on plugins you can use to get the same or similar result. You can use your browsers Inspect/Dev Tools to view the css applied to elements and any JS events attached to the element you are inspecting and recreate it yourself.
You’ve sort of answered your own question. You can use BuddyBoss to handle much of the content and an all-purpose layout plugin (Beaver Builder, Bricks, Breakdance or Elementor, Divi, or, if you’re already a good programmer, maybe Gutenberg block and theme editors) to create the basic templates and add content, sidebars, to reproduce the overall look and feel.
All the layout tools will have maps blocks/modules/widgets as well as options for heroes, search, subscription forms, columns., etc.
Note: unless you’re selling products or have seriously complicated payment requirements (e.g. Kenyan M-PESA phone-based payments or Dutch IDEAL) you can probably avoid dragging WooCommerce into the mix.