Turbobao — retiring a 2017 WordPress for a static site that cannot break

The client

Turbobao runs a Taiwanese streetfood foodtruck — fluffy Gua Baos and Black Bao Burgers, fusion food with roots in the street markets of Asia, serving festivals and events including appearances at major festivals like Rock am Ring.

The starting point

The site was a 2017-era WordPress running the Enfold theme: a database, a page builder, PHP, and a plugin stack — all to serve what is, in substance, one beautiful page of content that changes a few times a year. Every layer was something to update, something to slow the site down, something to hack.

What we built

The entire site, frozen into static files. We rebuilt turbobao.com as hand-written HTML with a from-scratch stylesheet — hero slideshow, story, event dates, catering section with the truck's real technical specs, Impressum. No CMS, no database, no PHP. There is nothing left to exploit and nothing to maintain.

Migration without SEO loss. Existing URLs and image paths were preserved down to the original upload directories, so years of indexed pages and image results kept working the day the switch flipped.

Deploys a food-truck crew can live with. One command builds nothing and uploads everything — a small Node script mirrors the static files to Hostinger. Content edits are text edits.

The result

A site that loads instantly, costs almost nothing to host, and cannot be broken by a plugin update — while Asia streetfood catering inquiries keep landing exactly where they used to. Sometimes the most senior engineering decision is deleting the stack.

Built by Ventus, a software agency in Cologne — see our custom software development services.