Facebook Newsroom
Facebook’s corporate communications website
Released
2014
Keywords
Responsive layout, WordPress, WordPress VIP, theme development, plugin development, i18n
Contribution
I worked on Facebook’s Newsroom during my employment at Beyond, leading all technical aspects of the redesign + replatform. In addition to developing a custom responsive WordPress theme, I participated in the sales, design, and user research phases providing technical oversight along the way. I built the front end alongside another front end engineer and QA engineer in compliance with WordPress VIP’s code standards.
Additionally, I wrote automation scripts to migrate data from Facebook’s legacy platform into WordPress, ensuring all media and content was retained.
Shortly after launching the redesign, I lead internationalization efforts which included launching 7 localized versions and supporting the needs of a global communications team.
The successful delivery of Facebook’s Newsroom strengthened Beyond’s partnership with Facebook, leading to more WordPress work including Year in Review and Internet.org.

Fully custom, responsive WordPress theme.

Interactive responsive timeline component with touch capabilities.

Localization into 8 languages.