Case Study: Confab Events achieves streamlined content control and flexible event sites with Craft CMS

Confab Events - Customer Case Study

Confab Events, produced by Brain Traffic, runs several high-profile content-strategy conferences but was hampered by an aging, plugin-heavy CMS that required developer help for routine publishing and became costly to maintain. For the site redesign, Creative Director Sean Tubridy engaged Ryan Irelan of Mijingo to migrate to a modern system that would return content control to the Confab team.

Mijingo rebuilt ConfabEvents.com on Craft CMS, modeling core content types (Speakers, Events, Sessions, Pages) and their relationships, adding flexible layout controls, conference-year URL routing, and a simple admin UI so staff can drag-and-drop content and toggle navigation without developers. The launch reduced reliance on third-party plugins, made updates fast and painless, cut training time to under an hour, and gave Team Confab an easy-to-manage, scalable multi-event site with archived event pages.

Confab Events

Sean Tubridy

Creative Director,Brain Traffic