// no page builder, no bloat
Stack
A custom WordPress block theme (theme.json version 3, WordPress 7.0, PHP 8.4) self-hosted on cPanel. Deploys run over SSH via ssh-manager and WP-CLI: the theme in the repo is the theme on the server.
Design system
The look lives in its own repo, RandomSynergy-DesignSystem, so the tokens outlive any one site. Dark-first, olive and lime, terminal/CRT surface, angular corners. theme.json carries the tokens; one brand.css carries what it can’t, scanlines included.
Fonts
Chakra Petch for headings, IBM Plex Sans for body, JetBrains Mono for the code tics. All three are self-hosted as woff2 under the SIL Open Font License. Zero foreign CDN requests; the page loads from one origin.
Content
Every page starts as a markdown file in the repo and publishes through WP-CLI over SSH, never the Site Editor. The files are the source of truth, not the CMS: if a page and its file disagree, the file wins.
Built with
Claude Code in the terminal, plus the studio’s own tooling. The rest of the workshop is public: 165+ repos on GitHub at RandomSynergy17.