Citybox website redesign

What was needed

Citybox’s previous site was built with Porto and WPBakery. The company wanted a new image for its mini storage units, one that looked good on the phone and took people straight to booking.

What I built

A WordPress site with a custom theme and Elementor, assembled with the widgets from GeekCore Toolkit. The texts, prices and addresses are the real ones from the previous site and the data Citybox provided.

• Home page: the background changes with the location and rotates on its own until the person picks one. The “Rent your unit” button goes to the chosen location.
• Mini storage units: one card per category with its illustration, square meters, what is usually stored and the monthly price plus VAT. Prices change depending on the location.
• Space calculator: the person adds what they want to store and the site recommends the smallest unit that fits. It replaces the old calculator, which used jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Content: how-it-works steps, video, security, an app section, branches with phone numbers, frequently asked questions and a contact form.
• Customer portal: the “My Account” and “Book” buttons go to the payment portal, which is still a separate application.

Own pieces

• Citybox theme: independent, with its own design system and local typography, without depending on Google Fonts.
• Citybox Importer: loads the images, pages, legal texts, menus, header and footer. It can be repeated without duplicating content, so the site is built the same way in development and in production.
• Citybox Calculator: a plugin with an admin panel (categories, items, units with image, colors and texts), shortcode and Elementor widget, with JSON export and import.

SEO and security

The theme adds a meta description, Open Graph, structured data for the company and the three locations, and an llms.txt. It also adds security headers, disables XML-RPC and prevents the site’s users from being listed. Everything was tested on desktop and on the phone, and inside the Elementor editor too.