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World Literature Today

Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 upgrades, archive improvements, and publishing tools for a small editorial team.

Drupal MaintenanceHigher EducationAccessibilityPantheon Hosting

World Literature Today is an internationally recognized literary publication at the University of Oklahoma with decades of editorial history, a global audience, and a small team responsible for keeping an enormous archive current.

We have supported World Literature Today from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11, including accessibility work, Pantheon hosting management, and editorial tools. Staff can publish hundreds of pages each quarter without routine developer involvement.

Results at a Glance

  • Supported upgrades from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 and continued maintenance after migration.
  • Led a major Drupal modernization covering more than 6,000 pages and tens of thousands of files.
  • Took over maintenance of a legacy platform and restored security updates, backups, and recovery procedures.
  • Improved accessibility, editing tools, and publishing workflows.
  • Supported Pantheon hosting and platform management alongside application-level work.
  • Reorganized content, layout, and navigation to make decades of material easier to browse and manage.
  • Built workflows that let a small non-technical editorial team publish hundreds of new pages each quarter.

The Scale

The platform held thousands of pages and tens of thousands of files, serving readers, writers, translators, donors, scholars, and partner institutions.

Accessibility + Maintenance

  • Accessibility remained a core requirement across migrations, interface refinements, and editorial workflows.
  • Managed Pantheon hosting and platform maintenance alongside the CMS work.
  • Supported search, discoverability, and navigation improvements across a large editorial archive.

What Improved

Editors can manage featured content, galleries, and Bookshop links through the CMS.

Supporting a small editorial team

The website supports subscriptions, digital access, and the publication archive for readers around the world.

We migrated the site, preserved the archive, improved accessibility, and supported the staff publishing new material.

From Drupal 7 to Drupal 11 and beyond

We have upgraded World Literature Today through multiple generations of Drupal while supporting its editorial staff and readers.

Our work includes CMS upgrades, content organization, accessibility, Pantheon hosting management, and ongoing support.

Stabilizing an inherited platform

When we took over the website, it lacked active maintenance and documentation and needed security updates, backups, and recovery planning.

We restored security updates, backups, and monitoring, improved hosting management, and provided direct support for the editorial team.

Accessibility in templates and publishing

We addressed accessibility in page structure, templates, interface elements, and editorial workflows.

Staff use the CMS to publish and manage the archive, while readers browse content through updated layouts and navigation.

50th anniversary rebrand

We managed the publication’s 50th anniversary rebrand alongside our development and support work.

Tools for the editorial team

  • Editor controls for featured content and content hubs.
  • ISBN overrides and Bookshop purchase links.
  • Gallery, caption, and image-upload tools.
  • Layouts and navigation that help visitors find their way through decades of literary content.

Why it mattered

Editorial staff can publish hundreds of pages each quarter and manage the archive without routine developer requests.

Voice of the Client

You've been a real champion during the whole dev process. Thank you for your extraordinary high level of competence and professionalism.

Rob Vollmar, World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma

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