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Client work
Case study · Hospitality
The Angel Inn
A local pub with a big community presence — built on WordPress, hosted with us, maintained monthly, and kept connected to its regulars through a blog that publishes to the website and Facebook at the same time. This is what hands-on site management looks like in practice.
WordPress
Blog management
Facebook sync
Zenlabra hosting
Monthly maintenance
theangelinn.uk
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Live and managed by Zenlabra since launch.
Project
Build, host, maintain & publish
WordPress.
Platform
Monthly+
Blog updates
Auto↗
Facebook sync
99.9%
Uptime target
The brief
A community pub that needed a
real web presence.
The Angel Inn is a well-loved local — the kind of place with regulars, events, and a community that genuinely wants to know what's on. They needed a website that reflected that warmth, stayed up to date without becoming a chore, and didn't require the landlord to learn WordPress.
The pub also has an active Facebook following, and that's where a lot of locals actually look. Maintaining two channels by hand is exactly the sort of job that gets started enthusiastically and abandoned by March.
So we took the whole lot on. Zenlabra built the site, hosts it, maintains it, and writes and publishes the blog — with every post syncing to Facebook automatically. It runs, and it keeps running, without the client needing to touch the technical side.
What's included
Everything we provide for The Angel Inn
Not a build-and-leave job. This is an ongoing arrangement covering the site, the server and the content that goes on it.
UK hosting via Zenlabra
Hosted on Zenlabra's UK-based infrastructure. SSL, daily backups and a 99.9% uptime target as standard — the pub's site is always on.
Blog writing & publishing
Regular posts written, formatted and published straight to the site — events, specials, seasonal news and what's on. No input needed from the client.
Facebook page sync
Every blog post published to the site syncs across to the pub's Facebook page — keeping followers informed without any double-handling.
Monthly maintenance
Core, plugin and theme updates handled monthly, plus form checks, performance monitoring and a quick content review to keep things fresh and functional.
SSL & security
HTTPS across the whole site, Cloudflare DNS for speed and protection, and daily backups so everything is recoverable if it ever needs to be.
The blog workflow
Content, handled
Written once.
Published everywhere.
The pub has an active Facebook following — locals who want to know about quiz nights, live music, seasonal menus and events. Rather than maintaining two separate channels by hand, we built a workflow that publishes to both at once.
The landlord sends a quick message about what's coming up. We do the rest. The post appears on the website and on Facebook, in the pub's own voice, without anyone copying and pasting anything.
It's a small thing that makes a large difference: the pub stays visible to its regulars, consistently, without it becoming a job.
01Content is agreedUpcoming events, news or seasonal posts — a quick message is all it takes.
02Post written & publishedFormatted, on-brand and live on the WordPress site — no client involvement needed.
03Facebook syncs automaticallyThe post surfaces to followers without any double-handling or copy-pasting.
04The pub stays front of mindA consistent presence built around the pub's actual voice — not generic filler.
Technical detail
How it's built
01
WordPress on UK VPS infrastructure
The site runs on Zenlabra's HestiaCP-managed VPS — a UK-based server with full PHP and MySQL support, isolated from shared hosting risks and configured specifically for WordPress performance.
02
Cloudflare DNS with SSL
All traffic routes through Cloudflare for DNS management, HTTPS everywhere, and a layer of DDoS protection and caching — keeping the site fast and reliably reachable.
03
Blog-to-Facebook publishing pipeline
Publishing a WordPress post triggers an automated publish to the pub's Facebook page through a configured sync integration. The landlord sees it go live on both channels without touching either.
04
WP Umbrella monitoring & updates
Core, theme and plugin updates are managed through WP Umbrella, with uptime monitoring and a monthly maintenance window to keep everything stable and predictable.
05
Daily offsite backups
Full site backups run daily and are stored off the live server. If anything ever goes wrong — a bad update, a compromise, or something unexpected — we can restore quickly.
In their words
We just wanted the website to work and to keep our regulars in the loop without it becoming a part-time job. That's exactly what we got.
— The Angel Inn · Managed by Zenlabra since launch
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