A festival that manages each edition itself

The organisers set up, sell out and archive each edition of the festival on their own. [binary] designed the technical solution to their brief and built the website — for the second time, on a new foundation.

Starting point

The first version was built around 2020 on Elementor. Logic was gradually added — programme, tickets, video archive — and the page builder could no longer carry it.

Analysis

Each festival edition as a separate entity: the programme, speakers, tickets and video archive belong to a specific edition. Once it is over, the edition is closed into the archive and must not break when the next one is set up.

Solution

A new version on the block editor with a custom plugin: editions, programme, ticket sales via WooCommerce, video archive. Content migrated from the old version by script, in a repeatable way.