Should we use WordPress or a custom site?

If your team publishes every week, WordPress usually pays for itself. If the content rarely changes, a hand-built site is faster, cheaper to host and has far less to maintain. We recommend one or the other after looking at how you work.

Do you use page builders like Elementor?

We avoid them for new builds. They make the first version quick but leave a slow, fragile site behind. Custom blocks give editors the same freedom with far less weight.

Can you fix our existing WordPress site?

Often, yes. We start with an audit of speed, plugins and security, then tell you honestly whether a cleanup or a rebuild is the better use of your budget.

Who looks after updates and backups?

You can, with the routine we document at handover, or we can on a monthly maintenance plan that covers updates, backups and uptime checks.

Web Design & Development

WordPress development

WordPress development: fast sites your team can edit safely.

WordPress is the right tool when your team publishes often. It goes wrong when a heavy theme and twenty plugins do the work of a few hundred lines of code. We build lean WordPress sites with editing screens made for your content, not for every possible website.

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Overview

In short. Custom themes, sensible plugins and editing screens built around your content, so publishing is easy and the site stays fast.

Every build starts with a custom theme designed for your brand, not a marketplace theme with half its features switched off. Content types and fields are modelled on what you actually publish, so editors fill in a form instead of fighting a page builder.

Plugins are chosen one at a time and kept to the few that earn their place. That keeps the site faster, cheaper to host and much less work to keep secure, and it means updates do not turn into a monthly gamble.

Deliverables, all included: 6
Steps from first call to launch: 4
Scope and price, agreed up front: Fixed
Yours: files, code, and accounts: 100%

What you get

Everything included. Nothing saved for a later invoice.

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Custom theme development
A theme built from your designs, with no unused features loaded on every page.
Content modelling
Custom post types and fields for products, team, case studies or events, so every entry looks right without manual layout work.
Block editor setup
A small set of custom blocks in your brand styles, so new pages can be built without a developer and without going off-brand.
WooCommerce stores
WooCommerce set up with local payments and couriers where a WordPress store is the better fit than a custom build.
Speed and security hardening
Caching, image optimisation, limited admin access, backups and update routines that keep the site quick and patched.
Rescue and migration
Slow or broken WordPress sites cleaned up, or moved off page builders onto a lean theme without losing content or rankings.

How we work

How a WordPress build runs. Four steps, no surprises between them.

Step 01
Content audit
We list what you publish, who edits it and how often, and that becomes the content model.
Step 02
Design
Key templates designed and signed off, including the editing screens your team will use.
Step 03
Build
Theme, fields and blocks built on a staging site, with your content loaded in as we go.
Step 04
Launch and hand over
A short editor walkthrough, documented update routine and a support window after launch.