Development
WordPress development
Fast, secure WordPress sites, custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce and headless builds.
In short
We build and fix WordPress sites: custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce stores with ERP sync, headless WordPress with a Next.js front end, speed and security rescues, and AI drafting, tagging and search for content teams. Each project starts with a one-week audit and ends with redirects, SEO checks and editor training.
WordPress, done like real software.
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and it can be fast, secure and pleasant to edit when it's built properly. Too often it's buried under page builders, abandoned plugins and a theme nobody can update.
We build custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce stores, and headless setups where WordPress manages content and a Next.js front end delivers it fast. We also rescue slow or hacked sites and add AI-powered workflows for content teams.
Everything is version-controlled, deployed through a pipeline and kept to a short list of well-maintained plugins.
More and more, our WordPress work includes AI: drafting and translating posts inside the editor, tagging and summarising large archives, site search that answers questions instead of listing links, and chat assistants that know your content. Editors keep control; AI does the repetitive part.
Is this for you?
You'll get the most out of this if
- Your WordPress site is slow and failing Core Web Vitals
- You need a custom plugin or integration
- You run WooCommerce and need custom checkout or ERP sync
- You want editors on WordPress but a modern front end
- Your site was hacked or is stuck on outdated plugins
Deliverables
What you walk away with
- 01
Custom themes and blocks
Lightweight block themes and custom Gutenberg blocks, without heavy page builders.
- 02
Plugins and integrations
Custom plugins for CRMs, ERPs, payment gateways and APIs, written to WordPress coding standards.
- 03
Speed and security
Caching, image optimisation, hardening, updates and monitoring.
- 04
Headless WordPress
WordPress as the CMS with a Next.js front end for speed and SEO.
Timeline
How the project runs
Typical timings for a first live version. We confirm yours in writing after discovery.
Week 1
Audit
Performance, security, plugins and hosting reviewed with a prioritised fix list.
Weeks 2 to 6
Build or fix
Theme, plugin or migration work in a staging environment.
Week 6+
Launch
Deployment, redirects, SEO checks and editor training.
Ongoing
Care plan
Updates, backups, monitoring and small changes monthly.
Usual stackWordPress, PHP, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, ACF, WPGraphQL, Next.js, MySQL, Redis, Cloudflare
Why a small studio
The person who scopes your project is the one who builds it, and the one who picks up when it breaks at 2am.
- The founder is on your project
- Hussain leads every build himself. You won't brief an account manager who briefs a developer who briefs someone else.
- Three people, the output of ten
- We build with Claude, Codex and our own agent tooling every day. A small senior team now covers what used to need a department.
- We stay after launch
- Evals before every release, a log of each AI decision, cost limits and someone on call. Month six matters more to us than demo day.
- Your repo, your cloud
- The code sits in your GitHub and runs in your AWS, GCP or Azure account from the first commit, on tools your next hire already knows.
- Projects shipped
- 115
- since 2014
- Clients served
- 53
- US, UK, EU, Middle East, APAC
- Average rating
- 5.0
- 113 of 113 rated jobs
- Years shipping software
- 18
- the founder, since 2008
FAQ
Questions people ask
Should we stay on WordPress?
Often, yes, especially if your team is happy editing in it. If you need app-like features or top performance, headless WordPress or a move to Next.js may be better, and we'll tell you honestly.
Can you speed up our existing site?
Usually dramatically. Most slow WordPress sites suffer from page builders, unoptimised images and too many plugins, all fixable.
Do you build WooCommerce stores?
Yes, including custom checkout flows, subscriptions and syncing orders and stock with ERPs and accounting systems.
Can you add AI to our WordPress site?
Yes. Common additions are an assistant that answers from your posts and docs, AI-assisted drafting and translation in the block editor, and automatic tagging, summaries and internal links across large archives.
Do you offer WordPress maintenance?
Yes, as a monthly care plan: core, theme and plugin updates tested on staging first, daily backups, uptime and security monitoring, and a few hours of small changes each month.
Keep exploring
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- Laravel & PHPSecure, maintainable Laravel applications, upgrades and rescues, from a team that has written PHP since 2008.
Start here
Let's scope yours.
Send a few lines about the workflow or product. You'll hear back from Hussain within a working day with questions, a rough shape and a ballpark.