WordPress development

Custom WordPressdevelopment

Bespoke WordPress websites with custom themes, blocks and plugins — fast, secure and genuinely easy for your team to update.

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Quick answer

What is custom WordPress development?

Custom WordPress development means building a site's theme, blocks and features specifically for your business instead of adapting a ready-made theme. The result loads faster, carries no unused features, matches your design exactly and gives editors blocks made for your content — while keeping everything that makes WordPress easy to run.

  • Custom block themes and Gutenberg blocks
  • Lean code, fast pages and strong SEO
  • Editing that is simple for your team

What we build

WordPress development services

From company websites to complex platforms, designed and built by one team.

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  • Custom WordPress websites

    Company, brand and corporate websites designed for your audience and built on a custom theme.

    • Custom design
    • Block theme
    • Mobile-first
    Custom vs theme
  • Custom theme development

    Lightweight block themes built to your design, with no page-builder bloat slowing them down.

    • Full Site Editing
    • theme.json
    • No bloat
  • Gutenberg block development

    Custom blocks and patterns made for your content, so editors build pages without breaking the design.

    • Custom blocks
    • Patterns
    • ACF blocks
  • Custom plugin development

    Features built as clean, update-safe plugins: integrations, calculators, portals and directories.

    • Custom plugins
    • REST API
    • Integrations
  • WooCommerce development

    Online stores on WordPress with custom checkout, payments, subscriptions and B2B features.

    • WooCommerce
    • Payments
    • Subscriptions
    WooCommerce development
  • Headless WordPress

    WordPress as the content back end with a fast Next.js front end, for performance and flexibility.

    • Next.js
    • WPGraphQL
    • Headless
    Next.js development
  • Speed, SEO and security

    Core Web Vitals, technical SEO and security hardening for new and existing WordPress sites.

    • Core Web Vitals
    • SEO
    • Hardening
  • Redesigns and migrations

    Older WordPress sites rebuilt, or sites moved to WordPress from Wix, Squarespace or another CMS without losing rankings.

    • Redesign
    • Migration
    • 301 redirects

Build options

Three ways to build your WordPress site

Every project gets a fixed, itemised quote — choose the level of design and development you need.

  • Launch fast

    Theme customisation

    A quality theme set up and styled for your brand, with your content in place.

    • Theme setup
    • Brand styling
    • Core pages
    • SEO basics
    Get a fixed quote
  • Advanced

    WordPress platform

    Membership, directory, multilingual or headless builds with custom plugins.

    • Custom plugins
    • Integrations
    • Multilingual or headless
    • Roles and workflows
    Get a fixed quote

In every build

What every WordPress project includes

  1. Mobile-first design and development
  2. Editing that is simple for your team
  3. Core Web Vitals and caching setup
  4. Technical SEO and schema
  5. Security hardening and backups
  6. Accessibility built to WCAG guidelines
  7. Analytics and form tracking
  8. Training and 30 days of post-launch fixes

How it works

From brief to launch

A clear plan, a fixed price and a staging site you can review every week.

  1. Free 30-minute call

    Discovery

    Goals, audience, content and features talked through, with your current site reviewed.

  2. Within 48 hours

    Plan & fixed quote

    Sitemap, features, timeline and price in writing.

  3. Weekly staging links

    Design & build

    Designs approved first, then the theme and blocks built on a staging site.

  4. 30 days of fixes

    Launch & train

    Content moved, redirects set, the site launched and your team trained.

Straight answers

Questions worth asking Questions worth asking

The things brands actually ask us before a build — answered properly, including the times the answer is that you do not need us.

  • How much does a custom WordPress website cost?

    It depends on the number of templates, custom features and integrations. A customised theme costs far less than a bespoke design with custom blocks and plugins. After a short call we send a fixed, itemised quote.

  • Do you use page builders like Elementor?

    We build custom block themes by default, because they are faster and easier to maintain. If your team relies on a page builder, we can work with it and keep it as lean as possible.

  • Will I be able to edit the website myself?

    Yes. We build custom blocks and patterns for your content, so your team can edit text, add pages and change layouts safely. Every project ends with a training session.

  • Can you redesign our existing WordPress site?

    Yes. We review what works, keep your content and rankings, and rebuild the design and theme — mapping any changed URLs with redirects.

  • Is WordPress secure?

    WordPress is secure when it is kept up to date and built well. We harden every site, keep plugins to a minimum and offer maintenance plans with updates, backups and monitoring.

  • Do you offer WordPress maintenance?

    Yes. Maintenance plans cover core, theme and plugin updates, backups, uptime and security monitoring, and small changes each month.

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Let's build yours Let's build yours

Tell us where you are — a new build, a migration or a project that has stopped moving. You get a fixed scope and a plan in writing, not a sales call.

  • Fixed quote in 48 hoursScope, milestones and price in writing before anything starts.
  • No obligationThe plan is yours to keep, even if you build it somewhere else.
  • Straight to the teamYou talk to the people who design and build it, not an account manager.