Anish Kapoor

Brighten the Corners approached me looking to add some quality-of-life improvements to the long-running website of the British sculptor Anish Kapoor. After some investigation, we decided the best move would be to rebuild the site from scratch. This would give us a solid foundation for this round of new features and bugfixes, and whatever else might follow down the line.

Some notes in no particular order:

• The site runs on Wordpress
• I rebuilt the theme with the Timber/ACF combination (the Upstatement Stack, as I tend to think of it). I installed Timber as a Composer dependency (not as a Wordpress plugin), which feels great and also means I get to upgrade to Timber 2 right away when it comes out.
• The site has an interesting interaction: When you're on the homepage, you can filter the posts by one of four categories - that part is easy. But when you click on one of the links, we remember the filtering choice you made, and show you a link to the next post in that category at the bottom of the page. I ended up solving it with localStorage: We save your filter choice, then fire off an Ajax request to a little PHP function that finds the right link and returns it.
• I updated PHP, Wordpress, and everything else that could be updated. I also set everything to auto-update itself, so hopefully the site will decay a little slower now.
• I moved the whole site to HTTPS.

Design by Brighten the Corners, original development by Jim Lundblad. View the site at anishkapoor.com.