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Inventory

A design catalogue that behaves like an archive: families, variants, finishes, designers, awards, technical sheets and certifications.

Sector: Design seating and furniture
Period: Mar 2026 — today
Role: Catalogue plugin, importers and store locator
Team: The plugin and importers are mine; theme and blocks with 3 other developers

01 · Bug report

The problem

Catalogue data arrives in the client's files and changes often: about 70 families and 300 products, each with variants, finishes and technical files.

The first version kept the catalogue inside the theme: content and design were tied together and every update meant redoing everything.

02 · Patch notes

Patch 1.0.0
Catalogue out of the theme

In July 2026 I split the catalogue into its own plugin; the theme renders it with its own templates.
Patch 1.1.0
26 importers

Products from XLS, families, designers, awards, finishes and materials, technical files, texts and translations, with automatic checks.
Patch 1.2.0
Command line

Imports, cleanup and alignment run through WP-CLI, repeatable with every data delivery.
Patch 1.3.0
PDF sheets

Product PDFs are generated from catalogue data in a few seconds.
Patch 1.4.0
Custom back office

Finishes and certifications managed from the admin, plus the store locator.

03 · Pipeline

04 · Benchmark