A three-day celebration of
Devon's culinary heritage.
The Dartmouth Food Festival is a three-day celebration of Devon's culinary heritage, bringing together over 100 hand-picked exhibitors, celebrated chefs and thousands of visitors to the South Devon coast every October. Largely free to attend, the festival also runs ticketed workshops, wine seminars, masterclasses and special events across multiple venues in Dartmouth. It has grown from humble beginnings in 2004 into one of the South West's most respected food events.
A website that handles the
full lifecycle of a major festival.
A website that could handle the full lifecycle of a major annual festival: publishing the event programme, selling tickets for premium events, managing exhibitor information, and serving as the public face of the festival year-round — not just for the three days in October.
The site needed to manage multiple event types with different pricing, venues and capacities, and make it straightforward for the festival team to update content as the programme evolved in the months before each festival.
WordPress with WooCommerce ticketing,
events and exhibitor management.
We designed and built a WordPress website with integrated WooCommerce ticketing and event management. The platform handles the full programme — free events, ticketed workshops, multi-venue scheduling — and gives the festival team the ability to manage listings, prices and availability independently. Exhibitor profiles, chef biographies and venue information all live within a structured CMS that the team can update without developer involvement.
The site serves as both a marketing platform in the months before the festival and a practical booking tool in the weeks leading up to it. We continue to provide hosting and support, with the site evolving each year as the festival grows. The Dartmouth Food Festival is a strong example of events, ticketing and ecommerce working together in a single WordPress stack.
More booking and ecommerce work.
Running a festival, event series
or visitor destination?
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