web_ixa

The public face of the same operation pms_ixa runs behind: property cards, availability, and an enquiry form that lands in the PMS inbox rather than in somebody's mail folder.

It is a block theme written by hand, no page builder and no npm — edited in place, reloaded in the browser, seeded from a repeatable script. The reason is maintenance: the people who update the content are not developers, and the thing they update should not be able to break the layout.

It began as a rescue. The previous site was a React SPA that went blank when the API behind it disappeared — a single point of failure nobody had priced in. The replacement was chosen for the opposite property: content that survives its author, and no build step between an edit and the page.

Then it grew languages. One, then two, then ten — including a Cyrillic script and a right-to-left one, which is where a layout stops being decorative and starts being tested. The theme's own interface is translated too, not just the pages.

Then it connected. The site now reads occupied dates from the PMS and posts enquiries into it, which closes the loop: a stay booked anywhere shows as taken here, and an enquiry raised here is already in the operator's queue.

One deliberate small thing I am fond of: a single line left on the dead SPA's old route, so anyone still holding that link gets an explanation instead of a white page.