WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT
WordPress built properly, not assembled from plugins.
Custom themes, custom plugins, block editor work and integrations. Built so your team can run the site without calling anyone.
Building something new? Read on. If WordPress is throwing a critical error, showing a white screen or refusing to let you log in, go to WordPress support instead.
What we build in WordPress.
Custom themes
Built for your content rather than bought and bent into shape.
Custom plugins
Functionality kept in a plugin so it survives a theme change, follows WordPress conventions, and can be read by the next developer.
Block editor work
Custom blocks, patterns and editor styles, so editing matches the design and the site can't be broken by accident.
Custom post types and fields
Real content models rather than a pile of pages.
Multisite
Networks of related sites sharing a codebase, with the shared and per-site parts decided up front.
Integrations
Your CRM, your payment provider, your email platform, your accounting system.
- Custom themes
- Custom plugins
- Block editor
- theme.json
- ACF
- Custom post types
- WP-CLI
- REST API
- Multisite
- WooCommerce
- Composer
- Git
- Object caching
- Core Web Vitals
Why WordPress sites go bad.
The plugin pile
WordPress makes it easy to solve a problem by installing something. Do that for three years and you have forty plugins, six that overlap, two that are abandoned, and one that's why the admin takes nine seconds to load.
Page builders cost you later
A heavy visual builder gets a site launched quickly and then charges rent forever: bloated markup, poor Core Web Vitals, content locked into shortcodes, and a migration that means rebuilding every page by hand.
What to expect
- We model the content first
- We decide what's theme and what's plugin
- We choose plugins carefully
It depends on how many templates and content types there are, how much is custom, what has to be migrated and what it connects to.
The WordPress site you already have.
Most WordPress development isn't a new site. It's a site that works, mostly, and needs something added, fixed properly or made faster, often after the person who built it has moved on.
Taking over a site someone else built
We start by reading it: which theme, which plugins do real work, what was edited directly, what the database holds that the admin doesn't show. Then you get a plain account of what's solid, what's risky and what it would cost to put right, before anything is changed.
Redesign or rebuild?
If the content model is sound and the problems are how it looks, a redesign on the existing build is usually the cheaper and faster route. If the site is held together by a page builder, dozens of overlapping plugins and edits nobody can trace, a rebuild costs less over the next few years than patching it. We will tell you which one we think it is, and why.
What WordPress development costs
Custom themes, plugins and integrations are quoted against a written scope, so the price is agreed before the work starts. If you want a new site and a team that stays on it, Website Care Plus starts at $499 a month: the site designed and built, three hours of development every month after launch, and the site is yours after 12 monthly payments.
Common requests
- Moving pages off a page builder into the block editor
- Replacing a stack of plugins with one small custom one
- Getting an old theme ready for a newer PHP version
- Connecting forms to a CRM or an email platform
- Custom post types for listings, locations, events or staff
- Fixing Core Web Vitals at the template level
WordPress build questions.
Can you improve the WordPress site we already have?
Often that's the better spend. We audit what's there, cut what isn't earning its keep, replace the risky parts, fix the performance problems and leave you with something maintainable.
Do you use a page builder?
Not on new builds. We use the block editor with custom blocks, which keeps content portable and pages light.
Can you take over a WordPress site another developer built?
Yes, and it's a large part of what we do. We read the site first and tell you what we find before changing anything.
Do you build WooCommerce stores?
Yes. Stores, checkout, subscriptions and the integrations behind them are WooCommerce development.
Will our team be able to update it?
That's the point. We set the editor up so the common changes are obvious, and we'll walk your team through it before launch.
Custom themes and plugins are quoted against a written scope.
Quoted
Diagnosed first, then quoted in writing. One-time or ongoing.
Not what you need? See all three ways we work
Building something on WordPress?
Tell us what it has to do, and what your team needs to change without asking anybody.
Rather talk it through? Call 833-336-6453.