WordPress built properly, so your team can actually run it.
Most WordPress sites are a bought theme, a page builder and nineteen plugins holding each other up. They're slow, fragile, and every change needs a developer. That's a build problem, not a WordPress problem.
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WordPress powers a huge share of the web and has a deservedly mixed reputation, almost entirely because of how it usually gets built. A marketplace theme plus a page builder plus twenty plugins produces a site that is slow, hard to maintain and painful to edit, and then people blame the platform.
We build custom themes with properly structured editing fields, so your team changes content without dragging boxes around and without breaking the layout. Fewer plugins, less weight, and a codebase the next developer can read.
If your project is genuinely better served by something else, we'll say so. We build Shopify and static sites too.
What's costing you
enquiries right now.
Page builders that ship megabytes
Elementor, WPBakery and friends produce enormous markup. Speed and Core Web Vitals suffer, and search visibility with them.
Plugin sprawl as an attack surface
Every plugin is code you didn't write running on your server. Twenty of them is twenty things that can be abandoned or compromised.
A developer needed for every change
If updating a headline requires a ticket, the site is a bottleneck rather than an asset.
Nobody can maintain it
Undocumented theme hacks and a child theme layered on a premium theme layered on a framework.
What we build
into every WordPress site.
Custom themes, no page builder
Clean, lean markup written for your design. Typically a fraction of the page weight of a builder site.
Structured editing
Proper content fields for the things that change, so your team edits confidently and cannot break the layout.
As few plugins as possible
We write small amounts of code rather than installing a plugin for everything. Less weight, less risk, less to update.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Performance treated as a build constraint from day one, tested on real devices before launch.
Security hardening
Sensible defaults, restricted roles, update discipline and backups configured before you go live.
Scales to hundreds of pages
Content architecture that still makes sense when you've added three years of pages to it.
Every build ships with this.
- Custom theme built for your design, no page builder
- Structured content fields for everything that changes
- Core Web Vitals pass on real devices before launch
- Security hardening, restricted roles and automated backups
- SEO foundations, clean markup, schema, XML sitemap
- 301 redirect map if we're replacing an existing site
- Staging environment and a proper release process
- Team training and written documentation at handover
Why we'd build this on WordPress
WordPress is the right answer when you publish a lot and want your own team in control of it (service pages, locations, blog, case studies) without a developer in the loop for every edit. It's free, ubiquitous, and integrates with almost everything.
- Your team publishes without a developer in the loop
- Scales comfortably to hundreds of pages
- Integrates with almost every CRM, booking and marketing tool
From first call to launch.
- 01
Content and structure
We map what the site needs to hold (now and in two years), before any design happens. That decides the content architecture.
- 02
Design
Wireframes then UI, approved before development starts. You see it before we build it.
- 03
Build
Custom theme development with structured editing fields, on a staging environment with weekly previews.
- 04
Content and migration
Content loaded, and if you have an existing site, every URL mapped with redirects prepared before launch.
- 05
Launch and train
We ship with redirects live, then train your team so they can run it. Documentation included.
What moves the price on
a WordPress build.
We quote fixed prices per project rather than by the hour, so scope is what determines cost. These are the four things that move it most.
Number of unique templates
The main driver. Ten pages sharing three templates is far less work than ten pages that each look different.
Content: yours or ours
Adapting existing copy is quick. Researching and writing from scratch is the largest line item on most builds.
Integrations
CRM, booking systems, payment or membership functionality each add scope depending on the quality of their APIs.
Migration complexity
A 20-page brochure site moves easily. A thousand posts with a decade of URL history needs careful redirect mapping.
Every project is quoted individually. Tell us what you need and we'll come back within one business day with scope, timeline and a fixed price.
Get your fixed-price quoteWordPress's bad reputation for speed and security is almost entirely earned by how it's typically assembled, not by the platform itself.
Build it with a custom theme, a short plugin list and structured editing, and you get a fast site your team can actually run. That's the whole trick.
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Questions businesses
ask us most.
Do you use Elementor or another page builder?+
No, and it's usually the biggest single reason our builds are faster. Page builders generate enormous markup and lock you into that plugin permanently. We build custom themes with structured editing fields. Your team gets the same editing freedom for the things that should change, without the page weight.
Will we be able to edit the site ourselves?+
Yes, and that's the point of choosing WordPress. We set up proper fields for everything that changes so editing is straightforward and you cannot accidentally break the layout. We train your team at handover and leave written documentation.
How many plugins will the site have?+
As few as we can manage, usually a handful rather than twenty. Every plugin is third-party code running on your server, and each one is something that can be abandoned, break on update or introduce a vulnerability.
Is WordPress secure?+
WordPress core is well maintained. Nearly every WordPress site that gets compromised does so through an outdated plugin, a weak password or bad hosting. We harden the install, restrict roles, keep the plugin count low and set up backups, and a care plan keeps it that way.
Can you migrate our existing WordPress site?+
Yes, including content, media and rankings. We map every URL to its new destination with 301 redirects live at launch, and monitor Search Console for four weeks afterwards.
WordPress or something else?+
WordPress if you publish regularly and want your team in control. Shopify if you're primarily selling products. A static site if the content rarely changes and speed is everything. We build all three and will tell you which fits.
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