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Moving a heritage food brand onto a more flexible platform

Recipes, regional content, store information and shopping paths were restructured in WordPress while protecting the continuity of a familiar food brand.

Clonakilty Food Co. carries a long established story across products, retail channels and international markets. Its digital platform needed to evolve without losing the recognition, content or search value already built around the brand. The migration from Joomla to WordPress connected recipes, history, store information, regional journeys and direct shopping paths across Ireland, the UK and Australia, giving the team a more flexible content structure and a stronger foundation for careful growth over time.

Services

Global Strategy
UI/UX Design
WordPress Development
eCommerce Integration
Technical SEO Migration
Content Architecture

Moving a heritage food brand onto a more flexible platform

Recipes, regional content, store information and shopping paths were restructured in WordPress while protecting the continuity of a familiar food brand.

Clonakilty Food Co. carries a long established story across products, retail channels and international markets. Its digital platform needed to evolve without losing the recognition, content or search value already built around the brand. The migration from Joomla to WordPress connected recipes, history, store information, regional journeys and direct shopping paths across Ireland, the UK and Australia, giving the team a more flexible content structure and a stronger foundation for careful growth over time.

Services

Global Strategy
UI/UX Design
WordPress Development
eCommerce Integration
Technical SEO Migration
Content Architecture

Date

Feb 2022

Client

Clonakilty Food Co.

Industry

Food & Beverage

Timeline

5 months

Strategy

The Challenge

Platform change had to create more flexibility while protecting the brand equity, content and search visibility already in place.

The existing Joomla build had reached the natural limits of its original structure as devices, regional needs and publishing requirements evolved. Content was harder to adapt and audiences in Ireland, the UK and Australia required more deliberate routes through recipes, products and store information. The task was not to dismiss the previous platform, but to move valuable material into a more maintainable system with continuity carefully planned.

Responsive ecommerce web design Ireland shown on mobile and tablet.

The Solution

WordPress became the flexible centre for brand stories, recipes, regional content and routes into shopping.

Global planning, interface design, WordPress development, ecommerce integration, technical SEO migration and content architecture were coordinated within one rebuild. Custom structures make recipes and history content easier to manage, while regional routes and store information connect audiences with relevant product actions. The system retains familiar identity cues and gives the team more room to maintain and extend the website without fragmenting the brand story.

Clonakilty Sausages displayed for ecommerce web design Ireland.
Clonakilty Collection on tablet, showcasing ecommerce web design Ireland.

The Process

Content and search relationships were mapped before the Joomla database was moved into the new structure.

We audited the database, identified priority pages and planned redirects and regional behaviour before rebuilding the main journeys in WordPress. Design translated the warmth of the physical brand into a responsive interface, while development covered recipe content, regional IP considerations, store locator functionality and shop integration. Technical SEO checks helped important content and search value carry through the migration rather than being treated as a post-launch repair task.

By the numbers

Regional Journeys

Regional journeys planned for Ireland, the UK and Australia.

Regional Journeys

Regional journeys planned for Ireland, the UK and Australia.

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Organic search terms indexed for product, recipe and regional discovery.

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Organic search terms indexed for product, recipe and regional discovery.

Months

Migration programme planned around content, SEO and regional journeys.

Months

Migration programme planned around content, SEO and regional journeys.