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Web development agency · Est. 2024

Custom WordPress development

WordPress Development Services

We provide WordPress development services for businesses that need their site to generate revenue, not just exist — custom themes, custom Gutenberg blocks and headless WordPress builds, delivered by a senior WordPress development agency.

Why this is built the way it is

Most WordPress sites are a purchased theme with eight plugins bolted on to make it behave. That works until you need it to load fast, rank for something competitive, or do anything the theme author did not anticipate. Then it becomes the thing holding your marketing back.

Our custom WordPress development starts from the content structure — what pages you need, how they relate, and what has to be editable — and builds a theme around it. No page builder, no plugin sprawl, and an editing experience your team can actually use without breaking the layout.

Best fit for

  • Content and lead generation sites that need to rank
  • Businesses publishing regularly and growing an organic channel
  • Teams who need non-developers editing pages safely
  • Sites with membership, courses or gated content

If your primary business is selling physical products, Shopify will serve you better than WooCommerce in almost every case. We will tell you that on the call rather than after the invoice.

Capabilities

What's included,
and how it's built.

What we build

  • Custom WordPress themes from scratch
  • Custom Gutenberg blocks with ACF Pro
  • Membership and gated content portals
  • LMS and course delivery platforms
  • WooCommerce storefronts
  • Headless WordPress with a Next.js front end

How we build it

  • PHP 8.3 on tuned MariaDB
  • ACF Pro for structured, editor-safe content
  • LiteSpeed or Redis object caching, plus an edge CDN
  • Hardened core: least-privilege roles, 2FA, WAF
  • Schema markup and technical SEO built in
  • Staging environment with a real deploy pipeline

Pricing

Fixed price.
Fixed timeline.

Each tier is a scope we've delivered many times, which is why we can quote it before the call rather than after it.

14-day build

Starter

A credible five-page site for a business that needs to look real.

$1,997fixed

  • Five custom-designed pages
  • Responsive across every breakpoint
  • On-page SEO and Core Web Vitals pass
  • Contact form wired to your CRM
  • Two rounds of revisions
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Most chosen

21-day build

Business

A custom WordPress theme with the content structure to rank and convert.

$3,997fixed

  • Ten custom-designed pages
  • Bespoke theme, no page-builder bloat
  • Custom Gutenberg blocks via ACF Pro
  • Blog architecture and SEO schema
  • Three rounds of revisions
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30-day build

Authority

A full design system and integration layer for a site that carries a brand.

$7,997fixed

  • Twenty-plus pages, complex templates
  • Documented design system
  • CRM, payment and API integrations
  • Programmatic landing-page templates
  • Unlimited revisions during the sprint
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Not sure which tier fits? Book a call and we'll scope it with you. If your project doesn't fit a tier, we quote it custom — and if a different platform would serve you better, we'll point you there instead.

Questions

WordPress
questions.

How much does custom WordPress development cost?

Our fixed-price WordPress builds run from $1,997 for a five-page starter site to $7,997 for a twenty-plus page build with a full design system and integrations. The price is agreed before work starts and does not move unless you change the scope.

Do you use page builders like Elementor or Divi?

No. Page builders add significant front-end weight and lock your content into a proprietary format that is painful to migrate away from. We build custom themes with native Gutenberg blocks, which gives editors the same drag-and-drop flexibility without the performance cost.

Can you redesign my existing WordPress site?

Yes. Redesigns are common and usually fit the Business or Authority tier depending on page count. We audit the existing site first, preserve the URLs and content that are already earning traffic, and put redirects in place so a redesign does not cost you rankings.

Will my WordPress site be fast?

Every build targets a passing Core Web Vitals assessment and a Lighthouse performance score in the 90s on mobile. That comes from building a lean custom theme rather than from installing an optimisation plugin over a bloated one.

Do you offer WordPress maintenance after launch?

All builds include 30 days of post-launch support. After that you can handle updates in-house using the documentation we hand over, or move to a monthly maintenance retainer covering core and plugin updates, backups, security monitoring and a block of development hours.

Can you build a headless WordPress site?

Yes — WordPress as the content API with a Next.js front end. It is the right choice when you need application-grade interactivity or extreme performance, and the wrong choice when a well-built conventional theme would do the same job for less money. We scope it honestly.

Next step

Start your WordPress build

Book a call or send the details. You'll get a scope and a price within one business day — no discovery retainer, no pitch deck.

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