Shipped 15 Local SEO Guide Templates in One Session š
Just wrapped up a marathon coding session building out the entire resource section for the Honeybun website. Knocked out all 15 standalone local SEO guide templates in one go - feels pretty good!
What Got Done
Finished the last 4 Tier 3 templates today:
- Electricians - added that EV charger opportunity angle plus commercial split
- Flooring - built a material Ć city Ć room-type grid system
- Nail Salons - focused on the service Ć neighborhood radius approach
- IV Hydration - mobile IV opportunity with proper MedicalBusiness schema
All 12 rebuilt templates got deployed via rsync straight to production. Each file clocked in between 18-26KB (way better than those sad 259-byte stubs they replaced).
The Technical Stuff
Had to make some key architectural decisions here:
Went full standalone - completely bypassed the existing resource-template.php since it could only handle basic <h2> + <p> structures. These guides needed tables, numbered steps, stats strips, and pricing grids.
CSS prefix isolation - each guide gets its own prefix (elec-, flr-, nail-, ivh-, etc.) to prevent style conflicts across pages.
Unique angles per vertical - made sure each guide has something structurally different. The electrician guide has EV charger sections, flooring has that material matrix, nail salons focus on neighborhood targeting, and IV hydration covers the mobile opportunity.
The Reality Check
Working without git on this project is... interesting. Everything gets tracked manually and deployed directly. Rsync worked cleanly though, even with the master-user permission setup on Cloudways.
What's Next
Now comes the WordPress admin dance - need to assign the correct template to each resource page (matching those Template Name: comments in the PHP files). Then browser-test all 15 URLs to make sure everything renders properly.
Still need to build out page-local-seo-photo-booth.php - it's sitting there as a 259-byte stub mocking me. But that's a problem for tomorrow.
Also need to double-check that res-related-grid and res-related-card CSS classes actually exist in the theme stylesheet since all 15 guides reference them.
Session Wrap
Feels good to ship something substantial in one session. All templates are live on the server at /home/master/applications/dexuhzbbqn/public_html/wp-content/themes/gethoneybun-theme/templates/ and ready for the final WordPress configuration step.
Sometimes you just need to buckle down and crank through a big batch of similar work. 15 down, 1 to go! š