Stark An inherited site, stabilized and extended.
Took over an arts center Divi site, stabilized it, and added what it lacked: reliable form capture and a live class catalog from their registration platform.
We didn't build this site. We made it work.
Adrian Center for the Arts came to us with a website already in place — a Divi build that had drifted out of good health and wasn't being well served by its previous upkeep. The goal wasn't a rebuild. It was to take ownership, stabilize what was there, and quietly add the functionality the center actually needed day to day. No drama, no teardown — just a site that does its job again.
First, get it healthy.
Before adding anything new, we brought the existing build back to a maintainable baseline — the unglamorous work that keeps a site reliable.
Email deliverability
Configured authenticated SMTP delivery so contact and registration emails actually reach inboxes instead of vanishing into spam.
SEO hygiene
Tightened on-page SEO and metadata handling so the center's pages are described correctly and indexed cleanly.
Image optimization
Automated image compression so a gallery-heavy arts site stays fast without the team thinking about file sizes.
Editor stability
Settled the editing experience so staff can update pages confidently without fighting the tooling.
Updates & upkeep
Ongoing plugin and core updates, monitoring, and cleanup — the routine care that prevents the next emergency.
General cleanup
Removed cruft and trimmed what the site didn't need, leaving a leaner, calmer foundation to build on.
Divi Submission Vault.
Divi's contact form emails a submission and then forgets it. Miss the email, lose the lead. So we gave every submission a permanent home.
The center's forms run on Divi's built-in contact module, which sends an email but stores nothing. A missed or filtered notification meant an inquiry was simply gone, with no record to fall back on.
A custom plugin that hooks Divi's submit event and logs every submission to its own database table — viewable and searchable in the WordPress admin, exportable to CSV, with optional digest emails so staff get a regular roundup instead of relying on one-off notifications.
Nothing falls through the cracks. Every inquiry is captured, reviewable, and exportable — independent of whether an email ever lands.
A live class catalog, on their own site.
The center runs registration through CourseStorm. We built a lightweight custom integration so the live catalog shows up natively on their WordPress site — no copy-paste, no stale listings.
CourseStorm API v2 integration
A custom, lightweight connector to the center's CourseStorm account — the catalog stays in sync with what's actually open for registration.
Class grid shortcode
A [coursestorm_api] shortcode drops a paginated grid or list of current classes onto any page, styled to fit the site.
Calendar shortcode
A [coursestorm_calendar] shortcode presents the same live classes as a browsable month calendar for date-first visitors.
Cached for speed
API responses are cached so the catalog loads fast and stays light on the center's hosting, refreshing on a sensible interval.
Care, not just a contract.
Inherited a site that needs a steady hand?
We take over neglected builds, get them healthy, and add the custom pieces they were always missing.