iZahrádkář.cz: a complete rebuild for readers, editors and the publisher

The old iZahrádkář.cz was difficult to navigate. Its design needed replacing, its structure was too complicated, and many links were broken. The editorial team spent five hours preparing a single article.

We rebuilt the website on Grace. We redesigned the pages, reorganized the content and replaced the WordPress editorial system. We also added audio and connected the website to the publisher’s subscription service.

We replaced the old design and reduced the number of navigation levels. The homepage shows featured articles, followed by recent and popular ones. Readers can see what is available before opening an article.

You can browse by gardening topic or search for what you need. We added links to related articles and kept the category and navigation path visible. The calendar, advice service and magazine archive are accessible through the site’s navigation.

The new article page: a large photograph, reading information and the current magazine issue.

We put the author, publication date and reading time together on the article page. You can open its photographs in a gallery, listen to an available recording or continue to a related article.

The audio player lets visitors hear a 30-second preview. Subscribers can listen to the full recording where one is available.

We built an editor that puts the text, main photograph, gallery, author, category, tags and publication date in one form. Editors can also select featured articles and mark content for subscribers there.

Preparing one article previously took five hours. On their first day with the new system, the team easily prepared six articles.

We added the free account and Klub Zahrádkáře membership offers to the website. Readers can compare the benefits, see the current magazine issue and follow a link to subscribe.

A free account lets readers save articles and set their newsletter preferences. The membership offer explains access to premium articles, audio, the PDF archive, advice and reading without advertising. Readers can also find the print and PDF magazine options.

The account and membership comparison shows readers what each option includes.

We connected the account area to the publisher’s subscription service. Readers can check their membership on the website and follow links to manage personal details, invoices, orders and payments. Their membership determines which premium articles, recordings and magazine PDFs they can open.

We moved the content and checked the old and new websites with Grace WebCompare. We ran a copy of the old website on our local server so its public server’s crawling limits would not slow down the checks.

1. We compared both websites to find problems affecting groups of pages and individual addresses.
2. We applied shared redirect rules, then corrected the addresses that needed individual attention.
3. We checked affected addresses again as we fixed them, without rescanning the entire website each time.

This WebCompare screenshot from 27 October 2026 shows 137,524 matching comparisons during the migration. Link and content issues were still being recorded at that point. Across the completed project, we fixed 40,000 broken links.

The publisher now has one website for articles, audio, the magazine archive and membership information. Editors prepare the content in Grace, and readers use their membership to access it. Orders, invoices and payments stay in the publisher’s subscription service, linked from the reader’s account.