HikeHead is my own dedicated WordPress site for the Australian outdoor community, covering hiking, camping, and bushwalking across Australia. Built on a customised Twenty Seventeen child theme, it delivers trail guides, gear reviews, outdoor news, and informative articles to a passionate audience of outdoor enthusiasts.
Custom Twenty Seventeen Child Theme
A customised child theme based on Twenty Seventeen, tailored to provide a clean, content-focused reading experience that prioritises readability and engagement. The site uses a dark colour scheme optimised for outdoor photography and long-form reading, with custom typography and layout adjustments to suit the Australian hiking audience.
Performance & SEO
The site is optimised for search visibility with SEO plugin, and performance-tuning plugin for asset minification and caching. Analytics and Search Optimisation are integrated for monitoring and search performance tracking.
Key Technical Details
- Custom WordPress theme (Twenty Seventeen child)
- Responsive, mobile-first design
- SEO-optimised content structure with Yoast SEO
- Social sharing integration
- Image gallery with FooBox lightbox
- Analytics & Search Optimisation
- Optimised performance with Autoptimize