Cornerstone Garden Life

As well as an archive that holds all added grow/plant profiles & categories – it’s the individual profiles that contain the exciting bits. Everything can be filled in, down to the small details like into which grow criteria profiles they fall and this then shows a little symbol for it, making everything visible at first glance.

The grow profiles get pulled in on a second location in the various garden sections, which shows what grows where. The real magic behind this lies in – you guessed it – the CPT. You enter data once, and then you can have it pulled-in in as many places as you want.

New plans for the Grow profiles is building a chart with data to show; when to sow, plant out and harvest. Making it visually even easier to read on the front end and learning new skills and tools in the process.

Looking up recipes with loads of ads is one of my least favourite things to look at on websites and blogs. So annoying to constantly having to click ads away or videos that autoplay – don’t forget the email newsletter sign up pop-up to fight your way through. And then when you get to the actual recipe, it’s all the way at the bottom of the page. Not very user friendly.

With all of that in mind I wanted to create something that was easy to look up, with clear instructions and no ‘mess’ to fight your way through. Is it simple in its design? yes. Does that matter? I don’t think so. I think its one it’s strengths How much time do we waste having to scroll through things we’re not interested in to get to the bit we do want to read? Exactly.

So, to summarise what we’ve created, a CPT to include a little catchphrase to entice people looking at said recipe, small intro space, ingredients + a description space (ie chopped in little stars), directions, a featured image and space for any additional images should you feel like showing more (if steps are complicated for example).

There are categories too, this can make searching recipes easier when there’s a lot to look through. In a nutshell, it’s user friendly. We’re currently working on a way to create it as a downloadable file of sorts.

Having various sections of the garden meant having the need for various pages for those sections. As each has its own microclimate and selection of plants. With this in mind we came up with an incremental counter to show how many plants there are growing there, how many varieties and how many of those are edible. It then also shows a small plant profile that pulls in the info from the ‘Grow’ CPT of Title, featured image, plant height and width, followed by a ‘more info’ button that takes you to that specific plant profile in ‘Grow’. This just shows how everything works together and is a fraction of what we can do for you and your website.