WordPress development agency for sites your team can edit

What WordPress development includes

WordPress runs a large share of the web, which means plenty of hosts, developers and plugins. It also means plenty of slow, over-pluginned sites. Our work is to build a site that is the opposite: a theme written for your design, a short list of plugins you can name, and content types that match your business.

• Custom or block themes built from an approved design
• Custom post types and fields, for example services, case studies, products or team members
• WooCommerce stores, including shipping, tax and payment setup
• Forms, bookings and integrations with your CRM or email tool
• Performance work: image handling, caching and script control
• Security basics: roles, login protection and update routine

When WordPress is the right choice

It fits teams who publish often, want to edit pages themselves, and need a large choice of hosting and developers. It is a sound base for content sites, service firms, course sites and stores up to a moderate size.

It is not always right. If your site is mostly a handful of static pages and your team never edits, a simpler platform costs less to keep up. If you need a heavily interactive product, a custom web app is a better fit. Our comparison of Webflow vs WordPress sets out the trade-offs.

How we build a WordPress site

1. Scope and content modelWe list the kinds of content you will manage and who edits each. This decides the theme approach and the plugin list.
2. Design approvalThe home page and key templates are designed and approved before any theme code is written.
3. Staging buildThe theme and content types are built on a private staging site. You see progress through a link, not a screenshot.
4. Plugin reviewEach plugin must pass the test in the table below. If we can do the job in theme code, we do.
5. TestingWe test on real phones and browsers, run speed checks on the main templates, and test every form and, for stores, a full order.
6. Launch and handoverWe move the site live, set up backups and analytics, and give your team a written guide to editing each page type.

How we choose between theme approaches

We say which we recommend and why, based on who will edit the site in a year. We do not default to a page builder because it is quick for us.

The plugin test

Every plugin is a dependency you must update and secure. We ask four questions of each one before it goes on the list.

A short plugin list is easier to update, faster to load and cheaper to maintain. Our website maintenance service covers updates after launch.

Timeline, reporting and related work

A brochure site of five to ten pages typically takes five to eight weeks. A WooCommerce store with custom features takes eight to fourteen weeks. Landing pages can be much faster: the Interakt pages, built on WordPress and hosted on Google Cloud, were delivered in two weeks.

You get a weekly progress note during the build. After launch we track page speed and search performance from your own Google Search Console and report the results at 30 and 90 days. The A'YUCO matcha store is a WordPress build with a teaching goal: the store explains why matcha, how to prepare it and which kit to start with, so the content structure was as important as the cart.