WordPress, minus
the plugin roulette.

Yes for many projects, no for some, and an agency that only says yes isn't advising you. WordPress remains excellent for content-led sites, marketing sites and editorial teams who want to own their publishing without a developer in the loop, and its ecosystem means almost nothing is impossible. It's the wrong tool for complex web applications, and a badly built WordPress site (page builder, forty plugins, no maintenance) is worse than most alternatives. Built lean and maintained properly, it's a fast, secure workhorse. If your project fits the second category, we'll say so and point you at our web development team instead.

Yes, it's some of the most satisfying work we do. A rescue starts with an audit of what's actually running: which plugins earn their keep, what the page builder is costing, where the database and hosting are hurting. Then we operate: replace bloat with lean custom code, fix the template weight, harden security and set up real backups, keeping your content and your team's editing habits intact. We only recommend a full rebuild when the audit shows surgery would cost more, and we show you that arithmetic.

A bespoke theme, a rescue and a WooCommerce build are different projects, so we scope timelines per engagement instead of quoting one number. What's fixed is the start: an itemised proposal within 48 hours and a first working deliverable on staging within 14 days of the NDA. A focused custom theme lands in weeks. Larger builds with migrations and integrations take longer, and if a date is at risk you hear it early, with options.

You do, from day one. The theme and any custom plugins are yours outright: IP assignment is in the contract, and the repository lives in your accounts. WordPress's GPL ecosystem means there's no licensing lock-in on top. Documentation and credentials are handed over as we go, so any competent WordPress team could take over tomorrow. No proprietary frameworks, no ransom at handover.

Every release ships through a QA gate (automated checks in CI plus manual passes across browsers and devices) and nothing goes to production without a staged test first. After launch, maintenance retainers apply the same discipline to updates: core, theme and plugin updates tested on staging, backed by automated off-site backups and a restore path we've actually rehearsed. Updates applied blind are how WordPress sites break. Ours aren't applied blind.

Yes, WordPress is one of the most common services agencies hand us, precisely because it's high-volume work their senior developers don't want. Your tools, your client calls, our engineers behind the scenes. NDA-backed, with a clause signed at the start that we never approach your clients, during the engagement or after it. The published agency case linked on this page was not a WordPress build; it is there because it shows that model working under pressure.