Recast website factory with Gutenberg

Issue

The aim of the project was to create a website factory Gutenberg, with a migration from the site of the French Popular Secours from Drupal to WordPress.

The Secours Populaire Français is structured into a main national agency and more than 1600 territorial entities. The objective was twofold: to migrate the national site, accessible via People's Help.frand give territorial entities the opportunity to have a page or site. A major issue was the need to facilitate the appropriation of the WordPress tool by the entire organization.

During this migration and redesign process, three key objectives were set:

1. Adapt each mini-site to meet the specific needs of each local entity.
2. Optimize user paths, with particular emphasis on the fluidity of transitions between the national and local levels.
3. Highlighting the diversity of SPF actions to encourage user engagement, including collection of donations.

Collaboration

To start the project, we have organized a series of scoping workshops, aimed at understanding in depth the needs, issues and functioning of the People's Relief as a large charitable association.

A significant number of custom templates have been designed to meet the specific needs of different local entities.

One of the major technical challenges of the project was the interoperability of services. The Secours populaire français already has a range of tools in place, covering the management of donations, newsletters, and user accounts, among others. It was imperative that the new site integrate harmoniously into this complex digital ecosystem.

Another crucial issue was the need to effectively share and disseminate information between the web factory sites. For this feature, we implemented our Content Sync Fusion extension, which allowed us to manage significant challenges in terms of the volume of existing content.

Results

This collaboration was a success, with a project that lasted more than a year and a half. The result is a national site and more than 1600 local sites (federations, committees, branches) perfectly integrated. User paths have been optimized, facilitating the search for information for users. The site remains an essential tool for the collection of donations and communication for the Secours populaire français, thus contributing to the achievement of its charitable mission.

The project is now being monitored in TMA at Be API.