About this plugin
Everyone in creative work knows they should write case studies. Most page builders turn it into a chore, and the result reads like a blog post. Fifteenth Labs Case Studies turns it into a form: fill in the brief, the steps, and the outcome, pick your images, and get a consistent, modern case study page — plus an automatic index of everything you’ve published.
The form itself adapts to what you do. Pick your field once — web design, graphic design, photography, or illustration — and the labels, examples, and even which sections appear change to match. A photographer sees “Conditions” instead of “Constraints” and never sees the numbered process section at all, since a single shoot doesn’t have build phases the way a website does.
An illustrator sees “Direction” in that same spot. Nothing here is one generic template hoping it fits everyone.
What you get
- A one-time setup screen asking what kind of work you do, which shapes labels, examples, and field visibility across the whole plugin to match
- A per-entry override for anyone working across more than one field — any single case study can use its own field’s language regardless of what the rest of your site is set to
- A “Case Studies” post type with an automatic index page and each study underneath it
- One guided edit screen, in the order the page renders: client/concept switch, badge, kicker, headline (wrap a phrase in [brackets] to emphasise it), summary, four facts, hero image, brief, constraints, pull quote, what you did, two process images with captions, an unlimited additional-images gallery, an embed/shortcode field, steps, a full-width image, outcome, client quote, link, and tools used
- Concept or proposal work automatically swaps “The outcome” for “What this explored”, shows a badge, and hides the testimonial field — for speculative or unpaid work you still want to show
- A modern editorial layout: oversized headline with an accent highlight, facts bar, rounded imagery, numbered sections, large-numeral steps, a dark outcome band, tool chips, and a closing call to action
- Settings for accent and dark colours, index heading and intro text, and the closing call-to-action text and link
- Unlimited additional images with captions, shown as a responsive grid that opens in a built-in lightbox — click through with captions, arrow keys, or on-screen navigation
- Index cards use the hero image automatically — no separate thumbnail to manage
- CreativeWork schema on every study, for search engines
- Two shortcodes: [fl_case_studies count="6" columns="2"] for a grid anywhere on your site, and [fl_case_study id="12"] to embed one full study inside any page
- Theme overrides: copy any file from the plugin’s templates/ folder into your-theme/fifteenth-labs-case-studies/ to customise the markup directly
Built for more than one field
“Case study” is the right word for web and graphic design — it’s the term those industries already use. Photographers and illustrators see different language throughout: “Portfolio piece” instead of “Case study,” “Conditions” or “Direction” instead of “Constraints,” and the numbered “How it came together” process section doesn’t show up at all, since a single photo shoot or a single illustration doesn’t have build phases the way a website or a brand identity project does.
Every field is still available if you need it — turn on “show every field” in Settings for work that genuinely spans more than one discipline, or set a different field on one specific entry without changing anything else about your site.