The client and the challenge
Organ Vida is an international photography festival in Zagreb. Every edition has its own visual identity, programme, artists and venues across the city, and the festival also runs its open calls (open call, portfolio review) through the website. The organisers needed a site they could fill themselves year after year, in Croatian and English, without a developer for every change.
The solution
For every edition from 2017 to 2022 we designed and built a separate site in-house: a custom WordPress theme following that edition’s identity, content through ACF fields (artists, programme, events, venues), an interactive map with pointers and all festival venues managed from the CMS, two languages through Polylang, and the open calls run through the site itself. Once the editions were over, we turned the old sites into static archives: every page in Croatian and English exists as HTML and as Markdown, with no PHP and no database.
The result
Every edition has its own recognisable site on its own subdomain, and the 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022 archives are still online today: fast, maintenance-free and without an old WordPress to patch.
