Frankfurt Memory Studies
About This Project
The Frankfurt Memory Studies platform is an established academic association website serving a research community focused on memory studies and related disciplines at Goethe University Frankfurt. The existing site had become technically outdated — running on an old WordPress theme with outdated plugins and a design that no longer reflected the organisation's standing in the field.
The project involved a complete redesign and technical overhaul: the site was migrated to a new, more reliable hosting environment, the WordPress installation was updated, a fresh design was developed that better represented the academic community, and all plugins were updated or replaced with modern equivalents. A particular focus was placed on the search functionality, which is critical for academic users finding papers and events in the archive.
The result is a faster, more secure, and visually coherent platform that serves both current members and new visitors while preserving the existing content and community identity that had built up around the original site.
What I Did
Full site redesign, WordPress upgrade, hosting migration, theme rebuild, and plugin modernisation.