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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Website relaunch · Culture & literature"
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 1,
      "text": "Literary magazine rebuilt and extended with WooCommerce"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "For Lichtungen, a custom WordPress platform for editorial content was created. It was later extended with an integrated shop for e-books and printed issues."
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "View project Live website",
      "links": [
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          "text": "View project",
          "url": "https://www.jkconcepts.at/en/projects/lichtungen-wordpress-woocommerce/#ausgangslage"
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          "text": "Live website",
          "url": "https://lichtungen.at/"
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      "type": "image",
      "alt": "Lichtungen logo",
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Direct JK Concepts project Updated on 11 October 2026"
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Client"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Lichtungen"
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Project"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Relaunch & further development"
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      "level": 3,
      "text": "Services"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "WordPress · WooCommerce · Maintenance"
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      "level": 3,
      "text": "Collaboration"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Design: TASKA · Development: JK Concepts"
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Starting point"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The existing magazine website was to be rebuilt technically from the ground up. The brief was not a short-term design tweak, but an independent WordPress foundation for editorial work and project-specific features."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "After the relaunch, a second task followed: e-books and printed magazines were to be sold directly through the same platform."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Requirements & challenges"
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      "items": [
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          "text": "Implement a custom design as a dedicated WordPress theme"
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        {
          "text": "Connect editorial content and project-specific features cleanly"
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        {
          "text": "Integrate e-books and print editions into one shared WooCommerce shop"
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        {
          "text": "Continue to develop and support the platform technically after launch"
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Implementation"
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      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Structure the requirements Content, page types and required features were organised as the basis for the technical architecture."
        },
        {
          "text": "Develop the WordPress theme The design was implemented as a custom theme without relying on a ready-made page template."
        },
        {
          "text": "Integrate features Project-specific requirements were built directly into the website structure and the editorial workflow."
        },
        {
          "text": "Add WooCommerce The existing site was later extended to sell digital and printed issues."
        },
        {
          "text": "Ongoing support Maintenance, security and technical SEO and performance optimisation continue on an ongoing basis."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Technical decision"
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Why a custom theme was the right foundation"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The project combines magazine, archive and shop. A custom-developed WordPress foundation keeps these areas together in one system and allows project-specific features without depending on a ready-made all-purpose theme."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "As a result, the later WooCommerce extension could be integrated into the existing site instead of building a separate shop with its own maintenance and a different design."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Outcome"
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Independent platform"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The literary magazine runs on a custom-developed WordPress foundation."
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Magazine and sales connected"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Digital and printed issues are offered through the integrated WooCommerce shop."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Continuous operation"
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    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Technical upkeep, security, performance and SEO are developed further on an ongoing basis."
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Sensible next steps"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Related services work together, but each one can be commissioned on its own."
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Website redesign"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Move existing content and features onto a new technical foundation in a controlled way."
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "WooCommerce development"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Implement custom shop features and existing business processes technically."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "Website maintenance in Graz"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Run production websites securely and maintainably after launch."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Next project"
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "CBD Theke"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Existing shop moved to a custom WooCommerce solution"
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Facing a similar relaunch?"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "If content, custom features and sales are to come together in a maintainable WordPress solution, we start by clarifying the starting point and technical dependencies."
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          "text": "Phone +43 676 487 91 38",
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          "text": "Email office@jkconcepts.at",
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        {
          "text": "Location Graz, Austria"
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