Allied Design & Development
A WordPress portfolio site for a Los Angeles architecture and development firm, organizing projects by category across residential and commercial work.
Business
Architecture & development firm, Los Angeles
Built
WordPress site with categorized project portfolio
Stack
WordPress, Elementor
Engineering focus
Visual portfolio structure, project filtering
Why this project matters
Why this project matters
An architecture firm's site is judged almost entirely on how well it presents finished work — the interesting problem is organizing a varied portfolio (residential, multifamily, commercial, competitions) so each project type gets found by the right visitor.
Who this is for
Who they are
Allied Design & Development is an architecture and development firm based in Los Angeles.
What they do
They provide architectural design and development services spanning residential, multifamily, single-family, commercial and competition work.
Who they serve
Clients seeking architectural design across residential and commercial sectors.
What the live site required
Not a wishlist from a kickoff call — what the delivered site visibly had to solve. Every requirement here is paired with the evidence that makes it true today.
Project portfolio browsable by category
ContentThe Architecture section is split into Residential, Multifamily, Single Family, Commercial and Competitions sub-sections rather than one flat gallery.
A responsive presentation for image-heavy portfolio content
TechnicalThe navigation structure appears twice in the page markup, consistent with a responsive desktop/mobile menu pattern.
Why this stack, not just what stack
Every technology on this project was a specific answer to a specific problem — never a default.
- 01
WordPress
Chosen so the firm can add new completed projects to the portfolio without developer involvement as work finishes.
- 02
Elementor
Chosen for the visual, image-forward project layouts across multiple architecture categories.
Trade-off — Elementor supports the category-based layout directly, but a filterable gallery — letting a visitor combine categories or sort by project size — would need a plugin or custom development beyond static category pages.
What the site can actually do
Category-based project filtering
Residential, Multifamily, Commercial and Competitions as separate browsable sections.
Studio and Development sections
Separate content areas beyond the core architecture portfolio.
What the finished build shows
Specific, verifiable patterns in how this project is put together — not a feature list, but how the pieces fit.
Studio and Development kept apart from the portfolio
Beyond the categorized Architecture section, Studio and Development exist as their own content areas rather than sub-categories of the same gallery — they read as distinct parts of the practice.
Category taxonomy lives in the page structure
Residential, Multifamily, Single Family, Commercial and Competitions exist as separate sub-sections rather than one grid with a filter control — the organization is built into the site's structure, not a client-side filter.
The live experience
Every screen, captured directly from the live site — desktop, tablet and mobile.
How this project's engineering applies to your business
Organizing a varied portfolio by category rather than one flat gallery applies to any creative or professional services firm — design studios, agencies, contractors — whose work spans multiple distinct types of engagement.
If you remember three things
Category-first portfolio
Work organized so a visitor finds relevant projects fast, not everything at once.
Editor-managed project library
New completed work addable without developer involvement.
Responsive image-heavy layout
Portfolio imagery adapted for both desktop and mobile viewing.
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