Sector(s)
The network's site presents its activities, publications and events, and helps visitors find a firm. The former WordPress site had a degraded mobile display, a broken form, an overloaded menu and no way to filter content. Parker+Parker rebuilt it on Drupal: block-based pages, a map of the firms, forms and news. The agency trained the team, and now handles maintenance and support for the site.
About the project
Results
- More than 60 firm profiles, shown on a map and in a list.
- 13 editor accounts in the Drupal back office.
- A single two-hour training session, with an editing guide, was enough for the team to update its pages on its own.
- A redirect plan from the old WordPress URLs to the new Drupal pages.
Goal
Give a professional network a clear, reliable site that its small team can update without developers.
Challenge
- The former site had a degraded mobile display, a broken form, an overloaded menu and no way to filter content.
- Firm profiles had to be migrated, then kept up to date by several editors.
- The move from WordPress had to preserve existing links.
Solution
- Block-based pages. Banner, thumbnails, icons, tabs, map and form: editors assemble their pages from this short library.
- Map of the firms. One profile per firm, with its location, shown on a map and in a list. The map block comes in three variants.
- News, events and press reviews. Sorted by topic and region, with an archive of press reviews.
- Forms. Two forms, including the contact form, managed from the back office.
- Prepared launch. Content freeze, redirect plan for the old URLs and GDPR compliance.
- Training. A two-hour session on pages, menus, blocks, taxonomies and forms, with an editing guide handed over to the team.
- Maintenance and support. Drupal updates, migration of firm profiles, local firm pages, legal notices and cookie management.
What editors do without developers
After the training session, the team publishes its content and updates its pages on its own. A written guide covers the main tasks.
Why Drupal was chosen
The network needed a small site that is easy to keep up to date. Drupal covers its needs with structured content rather than plugins. Each firm is a content item with a location, which feeds both the map and the list. News, events and press reviews share taxonomies by topic and region: filtering and archiving are a matter of configuration. Pages are assembled from a small number of blocks, which keeps the design consistent whoever the editor is. Parker+Parker also handles maintenance after launch: the team that built the site handles updates and new requests.
Technical Specifications
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Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Paragraphs makes it possible to build pages from the block library.
