WordPress development company
Built properly, it is still the most practical CMS for a marketing team.
We build custom WordPress sites: block themes, structured content with ACF, WooCommerce stores, and multilingual or multisite estates. No page-builder sprawl, no forty plugins nobody can account for, and a Core Web Vitals budget agreed before the first design is drawn.
What is WordPress good at, and where does it go wrong?
WordPress runs a large share of the web because it does one thing better than almost anything else: it lets non-technical people publish and edit without waiting on a developer. For a marketing team shipping pages every week, that beats any framework benchmark you could put in front of them.
Where WordPress goes wrong is almost never the core software. It is accumulation. A page builder that stores layout inside post content. Thirty plugins with overlapping features. A purchased theme whose code nobody in the building understands. No update process, because updates once broke something. The outcome is the site everyone recognises: slow, fragile, impossible to change without holding your breath. Every one of those is a build decision, not a limitation of the platform.
We build the other way round. A custom block theme, so editors work with named, designed blocks rather than a blank canvas. Structured fields for anything that repeats, so content is data instead of markup. A short plugin list where every entry has a reason and somebody's name against it. Images processed properly, caching configured at the server rather than by yet another plugin, and a performance target written into the brief where it can be argued about early.
We will also tell you when to leave. If the site is mostly custom application logic with a bit of content attached, Laravel or Next.js costs less to maintain. If editors need the WordPress interface but the front-end has to be genuinely fast, we run WordPress headless behind a Next.js front-end, which is the redesign we do most often.
What we build with WordPress
Custom block themes
Designed from your brand and built as native blocks, so editors compose pages without a page builder and without us.
Explore →WooCommerce stores
Catalogue, tax and shipping rules, the payment gateways your market actually uses, and a checkout that holds up on a sale day.
Explore →Migrations and replatforming
Off an old theme, a page builder or another CMS onto a clean structure, with URLs and rankings carried across intact.
Explore →Speed and Core Web Vitals
Plugin audits, query and image work, caching and hosting changes, measured against field data rather than a lab score screenshot.
Explore →Multilingual and multisite
One estate, several languages or brands, with hreflang, a translation workflow and components shared rather than duplicated.
Care plans
Core, theme and plugin updates on staging first, backups tested by actually restoring them, uptime monitoring and security hardening.
Our WordPress stack, by layer
WordPress compared with the alternatives
WordPress vs Next.js with a headless CMS
WordPress wins on editor freedom and cost when the site is mostly content and the team publishes often. Next.js with a headless CMS wins on speed, security surface and custom interfaces. The hybrid, WordPress as the editor and Next.js as the front-end, gets you both for a higher build cost and a lower running one.
WordPress vs Shopify for selling online
Shopify is hosted, with payments, PCI compliance, apps and updates handled for you. Less control, far less operational work. WooCommerce wins when the store is one section of a content-heavy site, when your pricing or product logic is unusual, or when platform fees at your volume outweigh the maintenance you take on.
A custom block theme vs a page builder
Page builders are quick on day one and expensive by year two. Layout ends up stored inside content, pages bloat, and a design change means editing hundreds of them. Custom blocks cost more up front and keep content portable, fast and on-brand. We have rebuilt enough builder sites to be firm about this.
WordPress, answered
Is WordPress secure enough for a business site?
Yes, if it is maintained. Nearly every compromise we get called in to clean traces back to an outdated plugin, an abandoned theme or a weak administrator password, not to WordPress core. Updates on staging first, least-privilege accounts, two-factor authentication and a firewall cover the realistic risks.
Do you use Elementor, WPBakery or Divi?
Not for new builds. Page builders store layout inside post content, which makes pages heavy and marries your content to a plugin permanently. We build custom blocks instead and editors get the same drag-and-drop feel with a fraction of the markup. We will happily maintain a builder site you already own.
Can you make our WordPress site fast?
Usually, and the wins are predictable. Remove the overlapping plugins, fix the queries running on every page load, serve images in modern formats at the right size, add object and page caching, and move off hosting shared with two thousand other sites. We measure against field data, not a single lab run.
How much does a WordPress site cost?
A custom-designed marketing site with a block theme typically runs $5,000 to $15,000. WooCommerce stores start around $9,000 and rise with catalogue size, tax and shipping complexity and integrations. Care plans start at $180 a month, which is the part people forget to budget for.
Can we edit everything ourselves after launch?
That is the entire point of building it this way. Named blocks matching your design system, structured fields for anything repeated, a written handover and a short video. If a routine content change needs a developer, we treat that as a defect in our build rather than a support opportunity.
Can we hire a WordPress developer from you?
Yes. Dedicated WordPress engineers are $18/hour or $2,400/month with a 15-day trial and profiles within 48 hours. They write themes and blocks rather than installing another plugin to solve it.
WordPress build, rescue or speed-up?
Send the URL. You get a one-page read on what is slowing it down and what we would change first, at no cost.