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Case study · National brand · 2023

Cold Rock: a national brand’s website, rebuilt from the inside.

Cold Rock is a national ice creamery franchise. We rebuilt its WordPress website behind a familiar look: editable pages, store and franchise content, a store finder and a clean-up of old plugins.

ClientCold Rock

ProjectWordPress technical rebuild

Staging completeSeptember 2023

The brief

Keep the look. Rebuild what’s underneath.

Cold Rock didn’t need a new visual identity. It needed a website its team could manage: editable pages, structured content for stores and franchising, and a cleaner foundation after years of plugins.

We rebuilt the site in WordPress, keeping much of the existing visual layout, and added a Google Maps store finder approved by the Cold Rock team.

Store finderbuilt on Google Maps

Editablepages for the Cold Rock team

Franchiseand store content types

Sep 2023staging complete

What we did

A technical rebuild, done quietly.

Visitors see a familiar site. The team gets one that’s far easier to run.

A technical rebuild

Much of the existing visual layout kept, on a rebuilt WordPress foundation.

Store and franchise content

Structured content types for stores, franchising and franchisee support.

A Google Maps store finder

Customers find their nearest store, built to the approach Cold Rock approved.

Migration and plugin clean-up

Content moved across and old plugins removed.

Editable pages

Pages the team can update without a developer.

Separate systems, left alone

Cake ordering, gift cards and the rewards program run on their own systems and weren’t part of this build.

On the site

Ice cream flavours

Store locations

Franchising

Franchisee support

Careers

Our story

Blog

Mobile van

Inside the site

Find a store, find a flavour.

The homepage, flavours, the store finder and franchising.

Cold Rock homepage

HomepageA familiar look on a rebuilt foundation.

Cold Rock ice cream flavours page

FlavoursThe range, easy to browse.

Cold Rock store finder map

Store finderNearest stores on Google Maps.

Cold Rock franchising page

FranchisingInformation for future franchisees.

Who did what

What was in, and what wasn’t.

This was a technical redevelopment, not a new visual identity.

Vibes Design

  • WordPress technical rebuild
  • Store and franchise content types
  • Google Maps store finder
  • Migration and plugin clean-up
  • Support after launch

Cold Rock

Kept its existing visual identity and approved the store finder approach.

Separate systems

Cake ordering, gift cards and rewards run outside the website build.

How it came together

From rebuild to support.

Aug 2023

Proposal

A technical rebuild keeping the existing look.

2023

Store finder approved

The Google Maps approach signed off by Cold Rock.

Sep 2023

Staging complete

The rebuilt site ready for review.

Later

Support

Ongoing help after the site went live.

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