A child theme for the Base Hotel WordPress theme with performance optimizations.

• Custom styling for featured item titles using local Poly font
• Responsive design optimizations:
  • Mobile-friendly slider title text sizing
  • Adaptive cookie consent container layout
• GPU-accelerated animations and transitions
• Performance-focused CSS containment strategies
• Hardware-accelerated transformations
• Reduced paint areas and layout updates

• DNS prefetch and preconnect optimizations
• Local font serving with WOFF2 format
• Enhanced lazy loading capabilities
• Responsive image handling
• Resource optimization and deduplication
• Build system with asset optimization

• Local WOFF2 font files replace Google Fonts:
  • Open Sans (weights: 300, 400, 500, 600, 700)
  • Poly (weight: 400)
• Font-display: swap for optimal loading

• DNS prefetch and preconnect for external services:
  • cdn-cookieyes.com
  • directory.cookieyes.com
  • log.cookieyes.com
  • cdn.tiqets.com

• Builds upon WordPress core lazy loading functionality
• Respects native image lazy loading in WordPress 6.3+
• Focuses on elements not handled by core:
  • iframe elements
  • Elements with background-image CSS
  • ACF image fields
  • Template parts
  • Widget areas
  • Dynamically loaded content
• Skips lazy loading for above-the-fold content
• Compatible with WordPress core image performance enhancements
• See:
  • WordPress 6.3 Image Performance Enhancements
  • Native Lazy Loading in WordPress 5.5+

• Optimized slider background images for mobile devices
• Automatically serves smaller (750x400) images on mobile
• Reduces bandwidth usage and improves load times on mobile devices

• Removed duplicate Font Awesome CSS from WP Post and Blog Designer plugin
• Dequeued WordPress blocks CSS library to prevent unnecessary CSS loading
• Consolidated Font Awesome loading to prevent redundant requests
• Optimized Tiqets widget loading with lazy loading and script deduplication

• Implements lazy loading for Tiqets booking widgets
• Only loads Tiqets script when widgets come into viewport
• Prevents duplicate loader script inclusions
• Uses Intersection Observer for efficient viewport detection
• Adds preconnect for cdn.tiqets.com domain

• Performance-optimized consent container
• GPU-accelerated animations
• Reduced repaints and reflows
• Contained layout updates
• Responsive design optimizations
• Mobile-specific positioning and sizing

• Webpack-based build system for asset optimization
• Asset versioning with content hashes for cache busting
• SCSS compilation with modern CSS features
• JavaScript bundling and minification
• Font file optimization and management
• Manifest-based asset versioning

• Concatenation of CSS and JavaScript files
• Minification of CSS and JavaScript in production
• Source maps in development mode
• Automated font file handling with WOFF2 optimization
• Cache busting through content hash versioning
• Asset manifest generation for reliable file referencing

• Version: 1.5
• Parent Theme: Base Hotel
• Author: Imagewize (https://imagewize.com)

To use this child theme in a WordPress Multisite environment:

1. Ensure the parent theme (Base Hotel) is installed and network-enabled.
2. Install and network-enable the child theme (Base Hotel Child Theme).
3. Activate the child theme on the desired site via Network Admin > Sites > Edit > Themes.

• Added WP-CLI for efficient WordPress management:

  curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
  chmod +x wp-cli.phar
  sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

• Configured proper permissions and aliases:

  sudo mkdir -p /var/www/.wp-cli
  sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/.wp-cli
  echo 'alias wp="sudo -u www-data wp"' >> ~/.bashrc

• Enabled Apache modules for improved caching:
  • mod_expires for browser caching control
  • mod_headers for custom HTTP headers

  a2enmod expires
  a2enmod headers
  systemctl restart apache2

• Suggested proper file permissions to be implemented by server admin:

  sudo find /var/www/site.com/public_html -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
  sudo find /var/www/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

  • Directories: 775 (proper access while maintaining security)
  • Files: 644 (readable but protected from unauthorized writes)