A 144-year-old lodge, now running on its own website
Denver Elks Lodge #17 has been around since 1882. I built the lodge's website, and as its bar manager and tech lead I also know exactly what it has to do: tell people when the bar is open, sell tickets, check guests in, and give members a place of their own.
The situation
The lodge talks to two audiences: members who want to know what's on, and newcomers who aren't sure a private club will let them in. Events are a big part of lodge life, and they needed ticketing and check-in that worked as well as the bar does. The old site had also been hit with a search-cloaking hack that hijacked its Google results.
What I built
A new WordPress site built around a simple message: who the lodge is, when it's open, and what's coming up. The homepage shows live open or closed status and today's hours.
A custom events calendar with live payments for ticketing, plus event check-in at the door. Members have their own portal, now live.
Behind the bar, the beer list is managed in Google Sheets and pushed to the digital signage, so the bartenders can update it without touching the website. Before any of that, I cleaned out the malware and restored the compromised WordPress core files.
Highlights
- Custom events calendar with live ticket payments
- Event check-in at the door
- Member portal, live
- Beer list edited in Google Sheets, pushed to digital signage
- Search-cloaking malware removed and core files restored
