wbs.studio

Project Overview

White Box Studio asked us to reimagine their decade-long portfolio into a fast, modular, client-managed website. Key goals:

Showcase 10+ years of work: 100+ videos, 400+ photos
Instant filtering by category (film, photo, drone…)
Empower non-technical staff with a friendly CMS
Seamless bilingual support (PL ↔ EN)
Rock-solid hosting, performance & security

Challenges

Vast, ever-growing media library—manual uploads would take weeks.
Need for super-fast filtering UI over hundreds of assets.
Client wanted to self-manage copy, images and translations.
Migration from whiteboxstudio.pl to wbs.studio without email downtime.
Zero budget for premium CDN or security services.

Results & Metrics

Developed & launched in 4 weeks
CMS updates are (10\times) faster—no dev hand-holding
Page load times under (1) second on global CDN
Bounce rate down by (25%), session duration up by (30%)
Hosting cost: €4.50/month; CDN & security: €0
200+ mailboxes migrated seamlessly
Client satisfaction: ★★★★★

The new site is lightning fast, effortless to update, and our global clients love the bilingual support! - Paweł Bastrzyk, Head of Sales

This project illustrates how a lean tech stack, smart automation and a focus on content management can turn a decade of work into an engaging, future-proof portfolio.

Our Solution

We built a robust WordPress+WPBakery site, accelerated by custom tooling and rock-solid infrastructure:

Rapid Prototyping with WPBakery

Spun up full layouts in days, not weeks
Live preview & A/B experimentation at unprecedented speed
Intuitive page builder lets content editors tweak text, swap images
Developer only needed for complex custom blocks

Automated Asset Ingestion

To avoid hand-uploading 500+ files, we wrote a Node.js script using Puppeteer:

Crawls our CMS upload form
Injects metadata, selects project tags
Handles video hosting integrations Result: 90% reduction in manual labor, zero human error.

Hosting, Domain & Email

We chose Hetzner’s €4.50/month plan:

Managed WordPress hosting + MySQL
Up to 200 mailboxes—critical during domain migration
Multi-domain support for whiteboxstudio.pl → wbs.studio Emails stayed live; clients never missed a message.

Global CDN & Security—Free

Edge caching for images, CSS, JS (page loads under (1)s)
DNS management & proxying
Turnstile spam protection in lieu of CAPTCHA
Firewall rules to block suspicious bots All at (0€) per month.

AI-Driven Bilingual Workflow

We integrated an AI translation pipeline:

New pages auto-translated to English
Editors can refine individual sentences in the WP dashboard
Scales to any language—just add a model

Implementation Highlights

About

Portfolio

Dynamic Portfolio & Filters

Users can toggle film, photography, drone, timelapse or live-stream galleries in real time. JavaScript-driven queries keep filtering near-instantaneous.