How this works

Every feature documents its own engineering; the floating toggle reveals it inline.

• Module registry
• Shortcodes
• localStorage state
• Progressive disclosure

An idempotent seeder that fills the whole site with a fixed cast of fictional breeders and their data.

• Idempotent seeding
• Shared action hook
• Meta markers
• Admin tool

Members edit their kennel name, town and contact preference from the front end.

• User meta
• Declarative fields
• Per-type sanitisation
• Nonce-guarded form

A front-end dashboard for members, with wp-admin blocked for everyone but staff.

• Shortcode dashboard
• admin_init redirect
• login_redirect filter
• Capability gating

Members upload photos from the front end; staff approve them before they go public.

• Front-end file upload
• Byte-level type checking
• Moderation queue
• Attachment meta

A private inbox so members can contact each other without sharing email addresses.

• Private post type
• Sender/recipient meta
• Read tracking
• No PII exposure

Move an animal to another member with a two-step handshake — proposed by the owner, accepted by the recipient.

• Two-party state machine
• Per-side authorisation
• Idempotent handshake

Members download all their data as JSON and can request erasure — the access and erasure rights, built in.

• Live data export
• Nonce-protected download
• Erasure workflow
• JSON streaming

Members list animals for sale; visitors browse; contact runs through the member account, never a raw email address.

• Custom post type
• Post meta
• WP_Query grid
• Front-end form

The top winners across every published show, gathered automatically from the results.

• Derived data (no duplication)
• meta_query with OR
• Photo gallery

A public register of judges and their breed specialisms, linked to the shows they officiate.

• Custom post type
• Cross-linking to shows
• Scoped permissions

A live season league table where each animal’s best few shows count toward its total.

• Live aggregation
• Best-N ranking
• Single-source scoring rules

Staff or the assigned judge enter placings, then publish — which makes the results public on the show page.

• Bulk array-named inputs
• Per-row authorisation
• Publish gate
• Grouped output

Members enter their animals into a show’s classes; each entry gets a catalogue number and, later, a result.

• Join records
• Server-side re-validation
• Per-show numbering
• Progressive enhancement

Exhibitions with a date, venue, classes and a status that drives the whole entry-to-results lifecycle.

• Custom post type
• Status lifecycle
• Extensible via filters
• Meta-ordered queries

Plan matings between your own animals; the expected kindling date is calculated automatically.

• Linked records
• Date arithmetic
• Sex-filtered selects
• Status workflow

A dated log of vet checks, vaccinations and results per animal.

• One-to-many records
• Meta queries
• Status pills

Register a whole litter in one step — kits are auto-numbered and pre-linked to their parents.

• Batch insert
• Number allocation
• $wpdb query
• Relationship inheritance

A multi-generation family tree, built by recursively walking each animal’s sire and dam links.

• Recursion
• Self-referential data
• Flexbox layout
• Print stylesheet

Every animal is a record with a registration number, owner, and a sire and dam that are themselves records.

• Custom post type
• Self-referential meta
• Lookup by reg. number
• Ownership by user

A page per region, each editable from the front end by its own coordinator — and no one else.

• Scoped capabilities
• Per-object ownership check
• Front-end editing
• wp_kses_post

Upcoming events, each with a one-click .ics download and a subscribe-all feed.

• iCal / VCALENDAR
• Custom query var endpoint
• template_redirect
• Streaming a file

A responsive masonry gallery of every staff-approved member photo.

• CSS columns masonry
• Attachment query
• Lazy loading
• Shared moderation state

Browsable covers for everyone; the actual issue PDFs are members-only, served through the protected viewer.

• Members-only files
• Protected viewer reuse
• Public/gated split

Federation announcements as a dedicated post type with its own archive and feed.

• Custom post type
• Excerpts
• Shortcode attributes

Long-form show write-ups authored in the block editor and linked back to the show.

• Block editor (show_in_rest)
• Cross-linked content
• Custom post type

Categorised video embeds where only a URL is stored — the player comes from oEmbed.

• oEmbed
• Custom taxonomy
• Responsive iframes

The printed show catalogue, generated on demand from the live entries.

• Print-to-PDF
• Live data (no export step)
• Grouped tables

A one-click, print-ready registration certificate per animal, complete with pedigree.

• Print-to-PDF
• Reused pedigree builder
• Capability gate
• Print stylesheet

Serves member-only files through an access gate so the real upload URL is never exposed.

• Access-gated streaming
• Hidden upload paths
• readfile()
• Print-to-PDF (no library)

Print-ready movement paperwork for an animal changing keepers, filled from your own records.

• Print-to-PDF
• Ownership re-check
• Prefilled from registry

Segmented mailings with an audit trail, batched sending, and a safe dry-run default.

• Segmentation
• Audit trail
• Batched sending
• Safe-by-default dry run

Login throttling, security headers, XML-RPC off, and quieter error messages.

• Transient rate-limiting
• Security headers
• Attack-surface reduction
• Generic errors

Import animals from a CSV by mapping columns — matching on registration number, never wiping unmapped data.

• CSV parsing
• Column mapping UI
• Match-and-merge
• Non-destructive by design

Installable to a phone’s home screen, with a lean service worker and an offline page.

• Web app manifest
• Service worker
• Network-first + offline fallback
• Versioned cache

Clean, read-only public endpoints for shows, results, champions and standings.

• register_rest_route
• DTO shaping
• Published-only gating
• Argument validation

Four purpose-built roles — member, coordinator, judge, staff — each with its own capabilities.

• add_role()
• Custom capabilities
• current_user_can gates
• Versioned migration

Meta tags, Open Graph and Event structured data — no SEO plugin needed.

• JSON-LD (schema.org)
• Open Graph
• Per-template output
• REST hardening