Jesuit.org functions as the central digital platform for multiple provinces — including Jesuits East, Jesuits West, Jesuits Central & Southern, and Jesuits Canada — each with its own leadership structure, ministries, and publishing workflows.
The existing platform faced meaningful constraints:
• Slow load times and performance strain
• Aging plugins and infrastructure
• A large, complex archive of legacy content
• Inconsistent editorial workflows
• Limited scalability across provinces
The organization needed more than updated visuals. They needed a stable, scalable system that could:
• Support provincial autonomy
• Maintain brand cohesion
• Simplify publishing
• Preserve decades of institutional history
The platform had to reflect the structure and depth of the Jesuit order — while making daily management clearer and more sustainable.
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We rebuilt the site as a WordPress Multisite network, allowing each province to manage its own presence while sharing infrastructure, governance standards, and technical resources.
The result:
• Dramatically improved performance
• Streamlined editorial workflows
• A structured memorial system honoring deceased Jesuits
• A scalable architecture ready for future growth
• Careful migration and preservation of archival content
Beyond the technical improvements, the platform now better supports vocational discernment, ministry storytelling, and collaboration across provinces.
Most importantly, it provides a steady foundation for the Jesuits’ digital presence moving forward.
The 2023 rebuild of Jesuit.org was produced at Bend Marketing, where Ashley Swanson served as founder and managing member and led web design and development. Pixel Eye Studio continues to support the platform today.
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