Migrated the Leading Entertainment and Celeb News Platform from Django to WordPress
Migrated the Leading Entertainment and Celeb News Platform from Django to WordPress
Wonderwall.com, a leading entertainment and celebrity news platform, sought to enhance its editorial workflow and media management UI by migrating from Django to WordPress. Faced with managing over a million media items and thousands of articles, they needed a robust CMS and enterprise-level hosting for better performance, security, and stability. The Multidots engineering team provided a seamless transition to WordPress, streamlined their content management and editorial processes, addressing the limitations of their existing framework.
About Wonderwall
Wonderwall.com is a leading entertainment and celebrity news platform, offering the latest in Hollywood news, exclusive interviews, and pop culture coverage. With an estimated revenue of $7.2 million, Wonderwall attracts millions of visitors monthly and boasts a vast content library of over one million media items and 74,068 articles. The company has a team of 44 employees. The company is one of Whalerock’s key digital media properties, serving as a go-to destination for comprehensive entertainment industry coverage for over a decade.
Whalerock, founded by entertainment industry veteran Lloyd Braun, is a media company with television, digital, and creative services divisions, creating TV shows, digital apps, and web properties in partnership with the world’s most impactful companies, celebrities, and networks.
Goal
- Streamline content and media management by transitioning from the Django framework to a more efficient system for handling Wonderwall.com’s extensive content library.
- Implement a robust content management system capable of efficiently managing over one million media items and 74,068 articles.
- Ensure high-performance CMS functionality to accommodate nearly one million monthly visitors, ensuring smooth handling of significant traffic.
- Enhance the editorial team’s efficiency with a usability-focused interface designed for easier and faster content creation and management.
- Facilitate seamless migration and management of over one million media items with advanced media management tools.
Solution
- Transitioned Wonderwall.com from Django to WordPress to provide a more advanced and capability-rich content management system.
- Migrated their hosting to WordPress VIP for superior performance, security, and stability.
- Utilized a command-line interface to successfully migrate nearly one million media items and 74,068 articles.
- Implemented Gutenberg Blocks to improve the editorial experience for media-rich pages and posts.
- Developed a custom interface for WP Media using REACT JS to facilitate faster search and media management.
- Created a backend interface focused on usability to achieve a seamless workflow for the editorial team.
Results
- The migration resulted in a much more efficient and advanced editorial workflow, enhancing content creation and management processes.
- Integration of advanced media management capabilities using REACT JS significantly accelerated media handling and search functions.
- Implementation of Gutenberg Blocks provided an improved and more intuitive editing experience for media-rich pages and posts.
- The transition to WordPress VIP hosting improved site speed, contributing to a better user experience.
- Enhanced security measures ensured greater protection for the website and its vast content library.
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