An insider's look at how a reputation restoration system was conceived and built from the ground up, finally providing a simple-to-use solution for a decades-old problem.
Twelve years is a long time in digital. When canarywharf.com launched on WordPress Multisite in 2014, Instagram was three years old and had only recently been acquired by Facebook. Responsive design had been standard practice for barely two years. The dominant professional consensus still held that WordPress was a platform for personal publishing and small business websites
This guide explains what CMS migration actually involves, when it makes sense to do it, and what separates a migration that goes well from one that doesn't
This document sets out the thinking behind our proposal to migrate canarywharf.com from its current proprietary CMS to WordPress - and why, in spite of the prevailing professional scepticism around open-source platforms at the corporate level, this is the most architecturally sound, commercially prudent, and strategically future-proof decision we can make today.