WordPress / Data Platform
A partner ecosystem built around structured data, search, maps, and publishing.
Taste the Local Difference
Cass & York helped build and maintain the WordPress technology behind Taste the Local Difference's partner and directory ecosystem.
The situation
Structured organizational data and public discovery.
Taste the Local Difference manages a network of businesses and partners that needs to function both as structured organizational data and as a public discovery experience.
That requires considerably more than standard page publishing.
What we built
Custom WordPress functionality across the ecosystem.
- +Partner listings
- +Directory experiences
- +REST APIs
- +Custom taxonomies
- +Partner forms
- +Data synchronization
- +Maps
- +Advertising
- +Subscriptions
- +Orders
- +Galleries
- +Imports and exports
- +Administrative settings
- +Reporting
Directory and maps
Partner records feed the public experience.
The system also exposes structured data through custom REST endpoints.
- +Structured categories
- +Filtering
- +Map markers
- +Popup content
- +List/map switching
- +Individual listing data
Operational tooling
More than a publishing website.
The installation supports internal workflows around partners, listings, subscriptions, orders, imports, exports, reporting, and site configuration.
That is why this project is better understood as a custom platform built on WordPress rather than simply a website.
Architecture
From partner information to public discovery.
01
Partner information
02
Import / synchronization
03
WordPress data model
04
Custom plugins & APIs
05
Directory · Search · Maps · Publishing
06
Public experience
Relevant capabilities