How this site is made.

Platform

WordPress with block-based Full Site Editing. Parent theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Child theme: dr-data, built from scratch.

Hosting

Deployed to a managed Linux VPS. Local development runs in DDEV. Deployments are scripted via rsync.

Typefaces

Source Serif 4 for body and display. Inter for UI elements, labels, and meta text. Both served as self-hosted WOFF2.

Forms

Fluent Forms for contact and enquiry forms. No third-party form service; submissions stay on the server.

Commerce

WooCommerce with Stripe and PayPal for course and consultancy payments.

Consent

WPConsent for cookie consent and GDPR compliance. No tracking or advertising cookies.

Publications

Research items are synced nightly from ORCID. Citation metrics pulled from Google Scholar. BibTeX export generated dynamically.

Security

Wordfence for firewall and malware scanning. UpdraftPlus for scheduled off-site backups.