Custom theme development
Hand-coded themes built to your design, with block patterns and ACF fields your marketing team can edit without breaking layouts.
Service
WordPress Development Services
Custom themes, plugins and headless WordPress - built lean, secured properly and fast enough to pass Core Web Vitals.
Overview
Why teams bring us this work
WordPress powers a huge share of the web, and most of those sites are slow because they were assembled from a page builder, twelve plugins and a purchased theme nobody understands. That stack is a maintenance liability and a Core Web Vitals failure waiting to happen.
We build WordPress properly: custom themes written in clean PHP, custom blocks for the editor your team actually uses, and only the plugins that earn their place. The result loads fast, survives updates and is genuinely editable by non-technical staff.
What you get
- No Elementor or Divi bloat - hand-built templates that stay fast as content grows
- Gutenberg block patterns so editors compose pages without design drift
- Staging environment and version control on every site we manage
- WooCommerce expertise in house when the site needs to sell
- Multisite and multilingual setups for franchises and national brands
- Documented handover, so you are never locked to one agency
What is included
Six things this engagement covers
Plugin development
Bespoke plugins for the functionality your business needs and the plugin directory does not have - written to WordPress coding standards.
Headless WordPress
WordPress as a content API behind a Next.js front end: editors keep the admin they know, visitors get sub-second page loads.
Speed optimization
Plugin audits, query optimization, image pipelines, object caching and CDN configuration that move real Core Web Vitals scores.
Security & hardening
Malware cleanup, file permission fixes, WAF configuration, login hardening and a patching routine that actually gets followed.
Managed maintenance
Monitored uptime, tested core and plugin updates, off-site backups and monthly reporting on a fixed retainer.
Process
How the work runs
Same six stages on every engagement, scaled to the size of the project.
01
Discover
We learn the business before the software - goals, constraints, competitors, the people who will use it and what success is actually measured by.
02
Define
Scope, architecture and a costed roadmap. You get documentation you own, whether or not you build it with us.
03
Design
Wireframes to a full design system, tested with real users before anyone writes production code.
04
Build
One-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each one. You see progress in software, not slide decks.
05
Launch
Load testing, security review, SEO migration checks and a rollback plan before anything goes live.
06
Grow
Post-launch measurement and iteration - because the version that launches is never the version that performs best.
Technology
What we build it with
Chosen for what your team can maintain, not for what is trending this quarter.
WordPress
PHP
WooCommerce
JavaScript
Sass
MySQL
Next.js
GraphQL
Docker
CloudflareRelated work
Projects that used this service
Endospine Clinic
A specialist endoscopic spine surgery practice needed a website that explained complex procedures to anxious patients and made booking a consultation effortless.
+164%Organic sessions in 6 months
3.1xAppointment requests per month
JC Construction
A construction company with strong residential work wanted to be taken seriously for commercial and industrial contracts. The website was the weakest link in that pitch.
+118%Qualified enquiries per quarter
2.4xAverage enquiry project value
FAQ
WordPress Development questions
Is WordPress secure enough for a business site?
Yes, when it is maintained. The vast majority of WordPress breaches trace back to out-of-date plugins, weak admin credentials or abandoned themes. A hardened install with disciplined patching, a WAF and least-privilege user roles is a perfectly sound business platform.
Can you make our existing WordPress site faster?
Almost always. Our speed audit identifies the specific culprits - usually a page builder, an unoptimized image pipeline and four plugins doing overlapping work. Most sites we optimize move from a failing Core Web Vitals grade to passing within two to four weeks.
Do you build with Elementor or Divi?
Not for new builds. Page builders trade long-term performance and maintainability for short-term convenience. We build custom Gutenberg blocks instead - your editors get the same drag-and-drop freedom without the render-blocking overhead. We do support existing builder sites for maintenance clients.
What does WordPress maintenance cost?
Our managed plans start at $350 per month for a marketing site and scale to $1,500+ for WooCommerce stores and multisite networks. Every plan includes monitoring, tested updates, backups, security scanning and support hours.
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Book a free 45-minute call. We will scope the work, give you a realistic range and a realistic timeline, and put it in writing.