A community heritage project — not a museum, not a news site. Just a searchable, browsable collection of photographs documenting everyday life in Ariogala across the 20th century. Streets, institutions, people, events. The kind of local history that doesn’t end up anywhere official.
The Problem
The photographs existed. Scattered across personal collections, family albums, local memory. No structure, no findability, no permanence.
What I Built
A WordPress site with a categorised archive, chronological timeline, and individual gallery pages for each entry. Fourteen categories — from school life to the river valley to specific streets — each browsable independently. Built to be easy for non-technical contributors to keep growing over time.
Why WordPress
An archive like this only works if it keeps growing after the developer leaves. The people adding photographs are local volunteers, not editors with training - and WordPress’s media library, categories, and admin are the closest thing to a tool they might already know. Longevity beat elegance here, deliberately.
WordPress Tailwind
