Abdallah Candies · Site rebuild
Start at the home page and wander. When you have a few more minutes, the pages below are worth a look in order — the last six are the shapes your catalogue comes in.
Desktop and phone both, if you have the time. They are laid out differently on purpose.
The top block is built one month at a time, so October turns over on its own rather than somebody remembering. The special line under the menu and the special tile in the grid read from the same place, so changing one changes both. The Instagram row is pulling live from @abdallahcandies.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.comNew product cards, and a grouped browse panel on the left in place of the old filter sidebar. Categories are sorted into kinds rather than listed alphabetically.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/shop/The same cards, with the category's own description at the top.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product-category/classic-assortments-favorites/One item, one price. The baseline for the five below.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/jumbo-dark-sea-salt-caramel-turkey/Sizes to choose between, each with its own price.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/milk-chocolate-sea-salt-caramels/More than one choice before it can go in the basket. The hardest of the set to lay out well.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/alligators/The price comes down as the quantity goes up. This one is running on the older bulk discount tool at the moment. Having seen the same thing work off the discount rules plugin you already use, we are looking at moving it across, which would let us take one plugin off the site.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/caramel-apples/A box built a piece at a time. It behaves differently from everything else in the shop, so it gets its own treatment.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/pick-n-pack/Nothing ships, so no cold pack and no ship window. The one product where most of the usual fine print does not apply.
abdallah2026.wpenginepowered.com/product/gift-certificate/Nothing here needs an answer beforehand. Mostly we need to know how your side works before we change anything on ours.
The whole thing is designed to run on the current database and the existing connections to your internal systems, rather than asking you to move anything. Nothing we have built changes what the nightly feeds read or write.
Within that, there are some changes to product attributes that would make sense — things like chocolate type, dietary and occasion — which is what makes filtering and better search possible. Worth walking through what those would actually be.
The main question is on your side rather than ours: the daily feed carries a category list, and we do not know whether anything downstream reads it, or whether your team uses the categories internally for anything.
That answer decides how freely we can tidy them up. Some are clearly for shoppers, some look internal, and a few hold no products at all.
A single line item can carry several different gift messages, tied to the quantity. Jason will bring an order export from the staging site with both single and multiple messages in it so we can look at real examples.
Ingredients and nutrition are already on most products, written by the nightly feed. Three things we would like to understand before we put them on the page: