Sudbury Rowing Club,
Jamstack site for a sports club
Migrating an established Wordpress site to a neat, cost-effective and modern jamstack architecture
In completion, this project is:
- a fast, statically-generated Next.js frontend
- a well-structured backend with a queryable API
...and that’s it.
It replaced a Wordpress site, which was fundamentally effective but awkward to update (thanks to a sitebuilder plugin).
The goal was to replicate the 'functionality' of a massive and esoteric Wordpress site, with a much faster frontend and a much smaller, more manageable backend. Since all nearly all the data on a vanilla Wordpress install is of unhelpfully of type 'raw HTML' in either 'posts' or 'pages', a big primary task was to lay out, digest and organise that data in a way that reduces needless repetition and makes it easier to query.