Wild Woods Music & Arts Festival

WordPress build for a three-day music and arts festival at Page Farm in Croydon, New Hampshire.

Wild Woods came to me after a successful first year on a basic template, looking for a real site to grow into. Ryan and his team gave me a lot of creative freedom, which made this one of my favorite projects to take from “let’s talk about goals” to ship. The result is a custom WordPress theme that handles the festival’s marketing site, ticketing, and admin workflows for managing artists, vendors, and the lineup.

Header

I tried a few slideshow configurations for the header and ended up scrapping all of them in favor of a multi-layer parallax effect. To keep page-load times honest, the layers use the picture element with optimized srcsets, so the right image size hits each device.

Fractal Canopy onScroll Effect

A small fractal-canopy effect that grows on scroll, paired with the “Purchase Tickets” call to action. It’s the kind of touch that doesn’t add functionality but does add a moment.

Functionality

The theme ships with custom shortcodes, built-in ticketing, and custom post types for artists, vendors, and the lineup. The festival team can add a new artist or vendor without ever touching markup, and the front-end pages update automatically.

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