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WordPress Development
WordPress done properly: a custom theme, as few plugins as we can get away with, and a site your team can publish on without breaking it.
WordPress runs a huge share of the web for good reason — it is genuinely excellent when a team needs to publish constantly. What gives it a bad name is how it is usually built: a bought theme, thirty plugins layered on top, and a site that takes six seconds to load and gets hacked through something nobody has updated since launch.
We build the theme rather than buy it, and we treat every plugin as a cost to be justified. The result behaves like WordPress for your editors and behaves like a fast custom site for your visitors.
What's included
A theme built for your content
Not a marketplace theme with your logo swapped in. Blocks and page templates that match what you actually publish, so editors are not fighting a layout designed for somebody else.
A deliberately short plugin list
Every plugin is code someone else maintains, running on your site with full access. We use the few that earn their place and write the rest, which is where most WordPress security incidents come from.
Speed work that survives updates
Caching, image handling and query tuning done at the theme level rather than bolted on with an optimiser plugin that breaks the layout every time it updates.
Editor training and documentation
A short walkthrough for your team and written notes for the next person, so publishing does not depend on one person remembering how.
Updates and backups handled
Core, theme and plugin updates applied on a schedule with a tested restore point, rather than a notification nobody clicks for a year.
Who this is for
- Businesses on a slow WordPress site loaded with plugins nobody can account for
- Teams who publish often and need editing to stay genuinely simple
- Anyone who has been hacked, or has had a plugin update take the site down
Common questions
If your team publishes regularly and the requirements are conventional, yes — it is a sensible, well-supported choice and we will build it well. If the site is mostly static, or needs custom functionality that plugins only half-cover, a custom build is faster and cheaper to run. We will tell you which one fits before you commit.
Often, yes. We start with a paid audit covering speed, security, plugin overlap and update history, then tell you honestly whether repair or rebuild is the better spend. Plenty of sites need a fortnight of focused work rather than a new build.
Yes — that is the point of choosing WordPress. You keep the standard editor, and we build the page templates and blocks so your content fits properly without needing a page builder that fights the design.
Tell us what you need built.
A couple of sentences is enough to start. You get a real reply within four hours.