Trouve Ton Courtier is a French-language lead-generation directory that helps Quebec home buyers and sellers find a local real estate broker, and lets brokers create profiles to reach new clients. As the WordPress developer, I extended the site’s Pindol theme by hand — building dynamic headers, footers and sidebars for portfolio and post pages, and designing a custom blog template — fully responsive across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Problem
The site needed more flexible layouts than the Pindol theme offered out of the box: headers, footers and sidebars that change with the page type, and a blog page that matched the brand instead of the theme default. Because the work was hand-coded rather than built with a page builder, every template had to stay clean, maintainable and consistent across browsers and screen sizes.
Solution
Extended the Pindol theme with custom PHP templates for dynamic headers, footers and sidebars on portfolio and post pages, and designed and built a new blog page template. Styling was written in SCSS, with jQuery and AJAX handling interactive behavior, and every template was tested on desktop, tablet and mobile across major browsers.
Theme Review
Reviewed the Pindol theme’s template hierarchy, hooks and styles to plan where custom templates and overrides would live.
Dynamic Headers & Footers
Built PHP templates so headers and footers adapt to the page being viewed instead of using one fixed layout.
Portfolio & Post Sidebars
Created dynamic sidebars for portfolio and post pages with content relevant to each page type.
Custom Blog Template
Designed and built a new blog page template in PHP, HTML and SCSS, matching the site’s branding.
Responsive & Cross-Browser QA
Tested every template on desktop, tablet and mobile across major browsers before handoff.
