HOPS is a recruitment agency specialising in agricultural seasonal workers, annually placing approximately 10,000 recruits on British farms for crop picking and processing.
The HOPS website required modernisation to include specific legal compliance information. I proposed using WordPress to create a basic brochure site, utilising its CMS capabilities to empower existing staff to update the required pages.
The project commenced with a standard WordPress installation, incorporating a client-selected theme with blogging and comments functionalities disabled. Several security plugins were integrated to enhance site protection.
Additionally, I developed a custom plugin to authenticate users using authorisation data stored in their MS SQL database. This involved establishing connectivity to MS SQL through the freetds Linux library and PHP. Once configured, the system delivered reliable and swift connectivity. The PHP WordPress plugin effectively executed SQL queries for user authentication and managed access to restricted content pages.