A WordPress platform for an annual leadership festival that relaunches with a new host city, theme and content every year. 360DigitalPros rebuilds it each year with a new city, theme, speakers and ticketing on a modular platform built for a fast, reliable annual turnaround as the event has grown from 150 attendees to 350+ across the Americas.
What we were handed
The Festival of the Diaspora is not a static organization with a static website. It is an annual gathering that moves to a new city across the Americas every year, with a new host city, visual theme, speaker roster and ticketing details each time.
A typical nonprofit site gets built once and coasts for years. FOTD needed a partner who could deliver a full redesign and relaunch every single year, on a fixed conference date, without ever missing a launch.
How we made it
360DigitalPros builds and delivers the platform on WordPress, using Advanced Custom Fields and Elementor so each year's redesign is efficient reuse rather than a rebuild from zero. City, theme, speakers, agenda and ticketing live as structured content rather than hardcoded templates.
Gravity Forms handles registration, ticketing and the content-proposal workflow for speakers, Google Maps API embeds venue and city details for each new location, and the platform runs on Apache and MySQL hosting.
That structure is what lets us turn around a full visual and content refresh, new city, new theme, new speaker roster, on a fixed annual deadline, year after year.
What shipped
Five years in, the platform has not just kept pace with a growing festival, it has absorbed entirely new program tracks each year without needing to be rebuilt around them.
