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Currentum

Corporate site in five languages for a newly established construction and electrical group

Currentum owns a number of companies in construction and electrical services, and needed a new digital presence when the group brand was established. The work was a broad project at Hallvarsson & Halvarsson, covering the graphic profile, the naming and a corporate site in five languages.

  • One group, many markets. The site speaks to each market in its own language, and each country has its own web address, while the content is managed from one place.
  • Find the right company quickly. Visitors can narrow down the member companies by region and business area, and combine the two, to find the right company.
  • A proven base instead of starting over. The site is built on our own Dbase platform, the same foundation as Acurum Group, so tested layouts and modules could be reused.
  • Advice on functions and modules. I advised the team internally on functions and best practice for the different modules: what is possible, and how we should do it.
  • Looked after over time. Maintenance and security updates continued after launch.

My part was the development and the advice on functions, from the requirements to launch.

currentum.seThe group site, live in five languages (opens in new tab)
The English start page of the group site (opens full size in new tab)
The English start page of the group site
The company directory, filtered by region and business area (opens full size in new tab)
The company directory, filtered by region and business area

Technical

Architecture & capabilities

Architecture principles

  • Built on Dbase (the shared WordPress base theme/module library — see the Dbase project) rather than a one-off theme, so filtering and multilingual patterns are reused, not reinvented per client
  • Filter state lives in the URL query string, not just component state — directly linkable/bookmarkable result sets, and crawlable per filter combination
  • Per-market localization modeled as separate domains per country/language (currentum.se, currentum.fi, currentum.no, currentumgroup.com for EN) rather than a single domain with locale subpaths
Faceted directory filtering — Region and Verksamhet, combinable (opens full size in new tab)
Faceted directory filtering — Region and Verksamhet, combinable

Capabilities

  • Two independent, combinable facet groups (Region, Verksamhet/business area) plus free-text name search, all narrowing the same result set together
  • WPML-driven translation management across five languages/domains from one editorial workflow
  • Result count and directory list update per filter combination (observed: "77 resultat" unfiltered, narrows on facet selection)

Design decisions

What Why Resolution
Per-market domains vs. locale subpaths Group needed each market to feel like a native local presence, not a translated subsite Separate ccTLD-style domains per language, WPML managing translated content across them
Faceted filtering without a search backend Directory (~77 entries) is small enough that a dedicated search index would be over-engineering WordPress taxonomy-based filtering with URL-driven filter state