WordPress Development

WordPress built for
the way you work.

We build WordPress websites around your content, the functions you need and the people who’ll publish to them. Design and development can run together as one project. Or bring an existing design or site, and we’ll start from what you have.
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What does your website need to support?

A website is a working tool. Before any talk of platforms or plugins, we ask what it has to do for the people who use it and the people who run it.

It’s usually some mix of four jobs:

Publishing service information that stays accurate
Presenting a growing body of work without the site getting messy
Capturing enquiries that tell you something useful
Getting each form to the right system and the right person
If routine changes are slow, or every edit means a call to a developer, the answer might be an improvement, an extension or a rebuild. It depends on what state the current site is in. So existing-site work starts with a technical review sized to the job, to see what can be kept, repaired or extended. That isn’t the same thing as a Clarity Audit.

The design, the content and the functions behind it.

The approved design, built faithfully

Templates and components that work across screen sizes, with real content and real interaction states. We review the working site, not a desktop screenshot.

Content your team can manage

Structured fields, reusable sections, content types and editor permissions that match who’ll be publishing. A simple illustration: a team member’s details are entered once, then appear consistently wherever that profile is used.

The functions the site needs

Forms, search, filtering and other agreed tasks, configured and tested. Connections to named systems such as your CRM, email platform or analytics are scoped against what those systems allow. We test the path from submission to destination, including what happens when something fails.

A careful launch

Content migration, redirect mapping where URLs change, a staging review and a release plan with a way back.

The standards underneath

Speed

Images, code, third-party scripts and hosting considered together. We agree the targets and how they’ll be tested for your project.
There’s no universal score worth promising.

Accessibility

Checks on navigation, forms, headings and keyboard use as part of the build.
A formal conformance claim needs a defined target and an assessment to match.

Search foundations

Crawlable pages, editable metadata and sensible URL handling. Migration planning reduces avoidable disruption.
It can’t guarantee rankings hold. Search strategy and ongoing SEO are their own scope.
SEO

Security

Access controls, deliberate software choices and clear responsibility for updates.
No site is unhackable, which is why ongoing care matters.

A site your team can keep current.

After launch, your team should be able to update a service, add a team profile or publish a case study without calling us. Reusable layouts and structured fields keep those pages consistent, and permissions match each person’s role.

You won’t need a developer to change a service page. You will for new functionality or a new design. We think that’s the right line. It’s what keeps the site consistent when several people publish to it.

Your team
Update a service
Add a team profile
Publish a case study
A developer
New functionality
A new design

Handover

We build the editing setup for the people who’ll actually use it, including how much time and technical confidence they have. Handover covers access, editing guidance, training or documentation as agreed, and a record of who is responsible for what.

Built, launched and in use.

Rider Levett Bucknall

Many regions, one way of publishing.

The requirement: bring separate regional sites onto one platform that teams in different markets could all publish to. The build included a multi-region structure, interactive tools, and CRM and marketing connections. Regional teams moved to one consistent system for publishing and updates.
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A considered build and changeover.

A build lives in three places before it’s finished. Here’s what happens in each.

In development

First we confirm the requirements: the brief, designs, content, functionality and dependencies, what’s included and how it will be accepted. Then we build, set up the content structures and complete the agreed integrations.

On staging

A private copy of the finished site. Representative pages, forms, priority functions and the everyday editing tasks are checked against the agreed scope, and anything that blocks acceptance gets fixed. Meanwhile we prepare the changeover: approved content, redirects where needed, access, tracking and a release plan, including how we’d roll back.

Live

We launch, run the agreed live checks, then hand over access, guidance and the record of who looks after what.

Plan for the website after launch.

Hosting, updates, backups, support and further development all need an owner. We can take that on through a Hosting & Support arrangement, agreed separately. After launch we fix defects against the agreed scope. New functionality, maintenance and ongoing optimisation are separate work, and any support period is set out in your proposal.

You can stop at the build. A well-built website supports your marketing and your operations. It doesn’t create demand by itself. If you want that wider work coordinated, that’s what a Growth Partnership is for.

Questions

We already have a site, or designs. Can you start from those?

Often, yes. We review their condition, completeness and what it would take to implement them before we commit.

Yes, for routine content, using the editing tools and guidance agreed in the handover. New functionality and design changes are development work.

Either, and sometimes custom fields alongside them. The choice follows who’ll be publishing, what the design needs and how the site will be maintained. No single tool is right for every site.

Usually, but we confirm it for the specific systems, their interfaces and your account permissions before we promise anything.

The build includes the agreed technical search foundations. Ongoing SEO, hosting and support are separate scope decisions.

How many templates there are to build, how much content moves across, the functionality, the integrations and the testing they need. Hosting, premium plugins and third-party subscriptions can carry recurring costs, and we identify those upfront.

What should be easier than it is?

Walk us through what the site has to support, what’s slowing your team down and what comes next.

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