CMS development your team can publish on without a developer
WordPress, headless and custom CMS builds with editor experience designed in
A content management system has two jobs: make publishing easy for the people who publish, and make breaking the site difficult for the same people. We build WordPress and headless setups on Sanity, Strapi or Payload, with a proper content model, a curated block library, and guardrails that keep new pages on-brand and fast.
The right CMS is the one your editors can use
Every CMS demo looks good. The question is what the thing feels like on a Tuesday afternoon when somebody needs a landing page live by five.
Marketing teams publishing weekly are usually best served by WordPress with a curated block library and no page-builder sprawl. When the front end has to be a fast custom build, a headless CMS behind Next.js does the job better. Product and documentation teams tend to need structured content, where one fact is written once and appears on the site, in the app and in an email without being retyped.
We build for whichever of those you actually are, then sit with your team and record a walkthrough of their own site so the training does not evaporate when the person who attended leaves.
Migrations
Moving off Joomla, Drupal, a fifteen-plugin WordPress install or something a previous agency wrote themselves is a large share of this work. Content and URLs come across together, with a mapping built from your analytics rather than from a folder structure. We would rather spend two days on that map than two months explaining a traffic drop.
What CMS development includes
WordPress development
Custom block themes with a deliberately small plugin list, because every plugin is somebody else's security update to worry about.
Explore →Headless CMS
Sanity, Strapi or Payload behind a Next.js front end, with previews that actually work for editors before publishing.
Explore →Structured content
Content models where a price, a spec or a bio is written once and appears wherever it is needed, on site, in app, in email.
CMS migration
From Joomla, Drupal, legacy WordPress or a bespoke system, with a URL map built from analytics and redirects tested before cut-over.
Editor experience
Roles and permissions, working previews, sensible field labels, plus a guide and a recording of your own site rather than a manual.
Maintenance & security
Core and plugin updates, backups you can restore from, two-factor login, monitoring, and hardening documented at handover.
Eight weeks, start to handover
Content modelweek 1–2
Page types, fields, relationships, and who is allowed to edit what. Decided with the editors, not for them.
Platform choiceweek 2
One recommendation with the reasoning written down, including what you give up by taking it.
Buildweeks 3–7
Templates, the block library and integrations built on staging, with editors invited in from the halfway point.
Migrate & trainweeks 7–8
Content moved, URLs mapped and tested, then a training session recorded so new starters can watch it later.
Launch & supportweek 8+
Go live, monitor for a month, and continue on a retainer only if you want one.
From $4,000/project
CMS builds from $4,000; migrations quoted after a content audit.
CMS, answered
What is a CMS and do we need one?
Software that lets people who do not write code create and edit pages. If more than one person needs to change the site more than once a month, the answer is yes. If the site changes twice a year, a static build may cost less to run.
Which CMS is best for us?
WordPress suits most marketing teams. Headless suits fast custom front ends and content that has to appear in more than one place. If the site is mainly a shop, the question is really Shopify or Magento. We give one recommendation and explain the trade-off.
How long does a CMS build take?
Six to eight weeks for a typical marketing site, including migration and training. The content model in the first fortnight is what decides the rest, so we spend real time there rather than rushing to a visual.
Can you migrate our existing site?
Yes, from Joomla, Drupal, an old WordPress theme or a custom system. Content and URLs move together with a map built from your analytics, and Search Console is watched daily for the first month after launch.
How much does a CMS build cost?
From $4,000 for a build on an agreed content model. Migrations are quoted after a content audit, because the price depends on how consistent the existing content is rather than on how many pages there are.
How do you keep a CMS secure?
Few plugins, automatic security updates, hardened hosting, offsite backups that are tested by restoring them, two-factor login for every account and monitoring for changed files. All of it is written down in the handover document.
A CMS your team will actually use.
Tell us who publishes, how often, and what currently stops them. We will recommend a platform and a plan.