WordPress, built properly
Most WordPress sites are a stack of plugins held together with hope. Ours are engineered: lean themes built from your designs, only the plugins that earn their place, and a care plan that keeps everything updated and secure after launch.
The difference between installing WordPress and engineering it
Anyone can install WordPress — that's its strength and its curse. The difference shows up a year later: in load times, in the hack you didn't see coming, in the plugin conflict that broke checkout on a Friday night.
We're developers first. That means custom themes coded to your design rather than a bloated page-builder, a deliberately short plugin list, staging environments, version control, and performance treated as a feature — not an afterthought. And when WordPress isn't the right tool, we'll tell you and point you at Drupal instead. We do both, so we have no reason to force-fit.
Our WordPress services
New websites
Business and marketing sites built from your Figma/Sketch/XD designs — pixel-accurate, responsive and fast. No designs yet? We'll pair you with a design partner or customise a premium theme to fit your brand and budget.
new website builds →WooCommerce development
Online stores that stay standing on your busiest day: custom checkout flows, payment and shipping integrations, product data migrations, and performance work that directly protects conversion.
woocommerce services →Site rescue & repair
Hacked site? White screen? Plugin conflict at the worst moment? Fixed-price rescue: we diagnose, clean, fix and harden — then tell you honestly how it happened and how to stop it recurring.
site rescue →Speed optimization
A fixed-price performance overhaul: caching, image handling, database cleanup, script auditing and hosting review — measured against Core Web Vitals before and after, so you can see exactly what you paid for.
speed optimization →Custom plugins & integrations
When off-the-shelf plugins don't fit: custom functionality, CRM and API integrations, membership logic — written to WordPress coding standards, not copy-pasted from a forum.
custom plugins →Care plans
Monthly maintenance covering updates, backups, security, monitoring and small edits — from £29/month.
care plans & pricing →Bring us the site someone else built
A big share of our WordPress work is inherited sites: the freelancer moved on, the agency stopped answering, the original build was never documented. We take over gently — starting with a health check, so we both know exactly what we're inheriting — then stabilise, document and improve.
Moving platforms? We also handle Wix / Squarespace / old WordPress → fresh WordPress rebuilds, and WordPress → Drupal migrations for organisations that have outgrown it.
Our approach
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Scope honestly
Fixed quote, clear inclusions, and a straight answer on whether WordPress is even the right choice.
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Build lean
Custom theme, minimal plugins, staging environment, Git from day one.
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Measure before launch
Performance, accessibility and mobile checks against real numbers, not vibes.
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Hand over everything
Admin access, hosting credentials, documentation, a training session for your editors. Your site is yours.
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Keep it healthy
Most clients roll onto a care plan; the rest get a handover pack their next developer will thank us for.
Common questions
How much does a WordPress website cost?
A professionally built business site typically runs £3,000–£8,000; WooCommerce builds from £6,000; larger or heavily integrated sites £10,000+. Theme-customisation builds can come in lower — ask.
Can you fix our existing site instead of rebuilding it?
Often, yes. A health check (£350, credited against any follow-on work) tells us whether the foundations are worth keeping — and we'll be honest either way.
Do you use page builders like Elementor?
We can work with them when we inherit them, but we don't build new sites on them — hand-coded themes are faster, more secure and easier to maintain. If your team needs heavy self-serve editing, we'll recommend the block editor (Gutenberg) with custom blocks.
My site was hacked — how fast can you help?
Rescue jobs jump the queue. Contact us with the URL and we'll respond same business day with next steps and a fixed price.
Do you offer hosting?
Yes, via our care plans — or we'll work with your existing host.
Talk to a WordPress developer
Whether it's a new build, a rescue job, or a site you've inherited and don't trust — tell us about it and a developer replies, usually the same day.
Plan your project