WordPress development
Custom themes, plugins, headless WP — fast, secure, maintainable.
WordPress development services covering custom theme and plugin development, headless WordPress with Next.js, WooCommerce builds, and performance and security hardening — billed by the hour from senior developers.
Why this work matters
Most WordPress sites are bought as templates and patched together with 40 plugins, then break every time core updates. We build clean, dependency-light WordPress that's actually maintainable — and we either run it for you or hand it back with docs your team can use.
The work, in detail.
- Custom theme development (block themes + classic)
- Custom plugin development
- Headless WordPress + Next.js / Astro
- WooCommerce builds + customizations
- ACF Pro, Gutenberg blocks, FSE
- Performance: Cloudflare, object cache, CWV tuning
- Migration from Wix, Squarespace, or legacy WP
- →Custom WordPress theme + blocks
- →Custom plugin (if scoped)
- →Performance + security baseline
- →Editor training + handover docs
- →Backup + staging workflow
WordPress is still the world's most-used CMS — and most of what's shipped on it is fragile. We build WordPress sites that load fast, stay secure, and don't fall over when traffic spikes.
The approach.
Plugin minimalism
Every plugin is a security surface and a performance tax. We replace bloated plugins with custom code where it makes sense and audit the rest. Most sites we inherit go from 32 active plugins to 9.
Block-first authoring
Editors get custom Gutenberg blocks tuned to your brand and content model. No more 'why does the homepage break when marketing edits it'.
Headless when it earns it
Going headless (WP as data, Next.js as front-end) is the right call for some sites and overkill for others. We model both before recommending.
Senior WordPress developer · projects from $8K · weekly invoicing
WordPress development — common questions
Do you work on existing WordPress sites or only new builds?
Both. About 60% of our WordPress work is taking over an existing site — auditing, hardening, optimizing, and either operating it or handing it back cleaner.
Can you migrate from Wix or Squarespace?
Yes. Content migration, URL preservation, redirect mapping, and SEO continuity are part of every migration. We don't lose your rankings.
WooCommerce or Shopify?
If you need deep content + commerce in one site, WooCommerce. If commerce is the whole product and content is secondary, Shopify. We'll tell you honestly which fits.
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Services that compound with WordPress development
Most engagements pull from more than one discipline. Here's what frequently ships alongside wordpress development.
Technical SEO that engineers don't laugh at
Crawlability, rendering, vitals, schema — shipped as PRs.
Headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful, Payload, Strapi)
When templated CMS isn't enough — typed, version-controlled content.
Performance & reliability engineering
Core Web Vitals, p99 latency, cache hit rates — green and steady.
The cost of waiting
is your competitor.
Every 90 days you delay is 90 days of authority compounding for someone else. Get the audit. See the math. Then decide.