CASE STUDY · WordPress (custom) · 2024
Trinity REIS
Real-time Buildout property data sync on a custom WordPress site, plus the front-end technical-debt clean-up.
Real-time

- Trinity REIS
- Property / Real Estate Investment Services
- WordPress (custom)
- PHP, JavaScript, CSS Grid, Buildout API
- 2024
- Web design & development
The brief
Trinity REIS had a custom WordPress site with growing pains. Property listings synced inconsistently from their Buildout CRM, the admin team was manually correcting data multiple times a week, and the front-end had accumulated CSS responsiveness issues that broke the layout on the mobile devices buyers actually use. They needed the API sync working reliably and the front-end made professional.
What we did
- Diagnosed and rebuilt the Buildout API integration for reliable, real-time listing sync.
- Audited and fixed UI/CSS responsiveness issues across all key page templates.
- Resolved ongoing data-sync errors and added monitoring to catch future drift.
- Established a maintenance retainer for ongoing development and feature work.
How we built it
The original Buildout integration was a 15-minute polling cron that missed updates whenever the cron timed out, which was often on the cheap host they ran. We rewrote it to use Buildout's webhook events where available, falling back to a polling job with proper state tracking so failed fetches retry instead of skipping data. The front-end issues were a mix of theme-template bugs and inconsistent breakpoints; we standardised on a single breakpoint set, refactored the listings template from floats and inline-block to CSS Grid, and added the print stylesheet they'd asked about months earlier.
Hundreds of properties now sync automatically. The webhook-first design with a state-tracked polling fallback means a missed event is retried rather than silently dropped, which is what eliminated the recurring manual data corrections.



The result
Property listings now sync from Buildout reliably with no manual data entry, and the site renders correctly on all common device sizes. Trinity REIS continues with us on a monthly maintenance retainer for ongoing development work.
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Tech stack
- PHP
- JavaScript
- CSS Grid
- Buildout API
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