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A WordPress Multi-Site For International NGO
A multi-site WordPress network for Democracy Reporting International: their existing content migrated intact, a flexible block system any editor can use, one publish action that reaches every site.
Project snapshot
- Location
- Germany
- Industry
- Services provided
- Development period
- Sep 2024 – May 2025
Project
Democracy Reporting International is a not-for-profit organisation and think tank registered in Berlin. Their work spans democracy support across many countries, which means a steady stream of news, projects and research that has to reach a broad public audience and stay easy to manage internally.
We rebuilt their digital presence as a large-scale WordPress network: off an outdated platform onto a modern, responsive site, with full editorial control through a flexible block system. Several sites run from one place, so content is published once and reaches the whole network.
The challenge
Every meaningful page change went back to a developer.
DRI's old platform had become a bottleneck. Content was locked into rigid templates, which is slow for an organisation that publishes constantly. That content also lived on an ageing system that had to move without loss, and they ran more than one site with no shared way to manage or republish across them.
They needed a modern, responsive site, a content model their own team could edit without technical support, a multi-site setup where a single piece of content reaches every site in the network.
Flexible block system
Build any page from blocks. No ticket, no developer.
Every page is assembled from a library of editable content blocks. The DRI team adds, reorders and restyles sections themselves, with no code and no developer wait.
Germany - HQ
Office
Berlin
Focus areas
- Digital Democracy
- Public Participation
- Local Governance
- Rule of Law and Justice
- Elections
Lebanon
Office
Beirut
Focus areas
- Public Participation
- Local Governance
Democratic Republic of Congo
Office
Kinshasa
Focus areas
- Public Participation
- Local Governance
- Elections
Tunisia
Office
Tunis
Focus areas
- Public Participation
- Local Governance
- Rule of Law and Justice
Ukraine
Office
Kyiv
Focus areas
- Public Participation
- Rule of Law and Justice
Multi-site architecture
Several sites. One platform. One place to manage them.
The network runs on WordPress Multisite, so DRI manages multiple sites from a single installation: shared users, shared blocks, one set of standards. Each site keeps its own front-end identity.
- Germany
- Ukraine
- Tunisia
- Lebanon
- Democratic Republic of Congo
Write it once. It reaches every site DRI runs.
Content broadcasting
Publish to one site, reach the whole network.
Broadcasting pushes a single piece of content across multiple sites at once. A news item published in one place appears wherever it should, with no copy-and-paste site by site.
Content migration
The whole archive moved across, intact.
Everything on the old platform came over without breaking links, losing structure or dropping pages, then was re-mapped into the block-based model and DRI's five focus areas.
- Digital Democracy
- Rule of Law and Justice
- Elections
- Local Governance
- Public Participation
A modern, responsive site the team controls, without losing a single page of history.
Advanced filtering on news and projects
The right item, found fast, across a deep archive.
Multi-criteria filtering lets visitors narrow a large content library and reach what they need in a few clicks.
Built to run without a developer
- Pages of content migrated, intact
- 500
- Sites running on one WordPress network
- 6
- Custom blocks developed
- 30+
- Faster new page builds with the block system
- 63%
Links
- Websitedemocracy-reporting.org
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