Hiller Commercial Floors
Elementor and WooCommerce build for a commercial flooring company. The product pages are almost all custom code, plus quote and estimate requests across the site.
WooCommerce · WordPress
Headless WordPress + Astro
Same portfolio. A different stack.
This is my WordPress portfolio rebuilt with Astro. I still write and edit everything in WordPress. Astro reads it through the REST API and turns it into plain HTML when the site is built, so there's no PHP and no page builder running when you visit.
01 — The experiment
One set of content, two front ends
Both sites show the same 12 projects from the same WordPress database. Only the way the pages are made is different.
hjmiranda.com
WordPress + Elementor
- Pages are made
- By PHP on the server, then cached by LiteSpeed
- Layout
- Elementor containers and widgets
- Editing
- Visual, drag and drop
- Hosting
- PHP hosting with a database
lab.hjmiranda.com
WordPress (headless) + Astro
- Pages are made
- Once, at build time, as static HTML
- Layout
- Astro components and plain CSS
- Editing
- Fields in WordPress, design in code
- Hosting
- Static files on a CDN
02 — Selected work
All 12 projects Sites I’ve built and shipped
Ronald McDonald House MN & WI
Full Elementor build with mega menu, donation and volunteer flows, and accessible, descriptive image alt text throughout.
WordPress
Storemapper
Webflow marketing site for a store locator app. I built most of the pages and much of the site’s custom functionality.
Webflow