CUSTOM WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Most businesses come to us with a WordPress site that was fine when it launched but has quietly overtime become the thing that is holding your business back. The marketing team has stopped trying to use it, the design looks like the company you were three years ago and every time someone wants to make a change there is a queue or a developer or a plugin that nobody is quite sure about.
The work we do best is for the people who have hit that point and know something has to change. We are based in London and Surrey. We have been doing this for over a decade work for businesses all over the Uk and around world who all share the same attributes, an ambition that has outgrown the website they are currently running on. Behind every project we take on is someone’s reputation, their budget and a bet they have made that this time it will be done properly.
WE ARE EXPERT WORDPRESS DEVELOPERS
What Success Looks Like
Success is when your marketing team stops asking for permission and starts publishing pages on their own timeline. It is when the site is genuinely bringing in leads rather than just looking presentable and when your search rankings are climbing because the structure underneath is doing its job properly.
Problems We Solve
Most of the teams who come to us are running a WordPress site that technically works but the design has dated, the load times have crept up, the plugins are conflicting with each other and their own team has stopped trying to make changes because they are not confident the site will hold together if they do.
We Optimise
Launching a WordPress site is where most agencies finish and where we think the real work starts. Plugins need updating, performance needs monitoring, search rankings shift as competitors move and your business is not going to be the same in twelve months as it is today.
Select projects from our WordPress Development Agency
CTFSI
Bringing AI expertise to financial services
NATIONAL EXTENSION COLLEGE
Turning WordPress into a growth engine for NEC
CLEARSTONE ENERGY
Putting people at the heart of the UK’s low carbon energy network
CUSTOM WORDPRESS THEME DEVELOPMENT
What We Build
Marketing websites: A lot of the WordPress sites we see look presentable but are not bringing in leads and the marketing team has given up trying to use them. We build sites where your team can manage content themselves and the site actually converts the traffic it gets.
E-commerce platforms: We build WooCommerce stores for businesses who have outgrown whatever they are currently selling on. With faster page load times, a checkout flow that does not lose people halfway through and a product catalogue that scales as you grow.
Global & multilingual sites: If you are expanding into new counties, we build WordPress sites that handle multiple language and local currencies without making life difficult for your local teams.
Customer portals & dashboards: We have built secure customer portals with API integrations, custom workflows, user management and automations that saves hours of admin.
Headless WordPress setups: When performance or design requirements go beyond what a traditional WordPress front end can deliver we decouple it with a headless WordPress website implementation.
WORDPRESS MIGRATION SERVICES
How We Deliver It
Strategy before screens: We start with your goals, your users and the things that are getting in the way because most of the time what a business thinks it needs from a WordPress site and what it actually needs are two different things.
Built to last: We have seen what happens when WordPress sites get thrown together on bloated themes with plugins doing jobs that clean code should be handling. Everything we build is lean and secure because your site needs to help your business grow.
Design with intent: We design around how your users actually behave and what your team needs to do with the site every week. If someone lands on a page and has to think about where to go next the design has not done its job.
Search ready: SEO is built into how we work from the start of every project. The page speed, the structure and the schema are all there from day one because bolting it on afterwards is how you end up redoing work that should have been right the first time.
In it for the long run: Your competitors are not standing still and your business is going to change over the next twelve months in ways you cannot predict yet. We stay involved after launch because a WordPress site that nobody is looking after is slowly getting worse.
CREATING THAT PERFECT WEBSITE
Our Point of View on WordPress
WordPress is one of the most powerful platforms out there and for good reason. There is almost nothing you cannot build on it, any design, any functionality, any level of control over your content and your SEO. It is open source so everything belongs to you and there are no licensing fees that scale with your revenue.
The main question we care about is whether what we are building helps you win customers or scale effectively and that applies whether it is a single site for a growing business or a multi-country estate with dozens of markets and teams managing content in different languages.
We are not precious about WordPress either, we use it because for a lot of businesses it genuinely is the best option but if another platform was a better fit for what you are trying to do we would tell you that before we started billing you for something that was never the right call.
FAQs
Frequent questions our WordPress agency gets asked before we are hired
How does a project usually start?
We begin with a conversation about what your business actually needs rather than jumping into project requirements or wireframes. Our development process starts with defining a strategy by understanding your target audience, how they find you and what you need them to do when they arrive. From there we map out the wordpress website development properly so that every decision has a reason behind it.
Can you work with our current site?
Yes and honestly that is most of what we do. A lot of businesses come to us with an existing plugins problem or a theme that has been stretched beyond what it was ever designed for and the whole thing has slowed down. We will look at the website’s performance and rebuild what needs rebuilding. Sometimes a new website is the right call and sometimes the smarter move is fixing what you already have.
Do you build custom themes?
Yes Always, we do not use pre made templates because they create more problems than they solve long term. Every theme we build is bespoke wordpress designed around your brand, your workflows and your business goals. That means faster load times, easier editing for your team and a content management system that actually makes sense to the people using it. Our skilled wordpress developers build everything from scratch so you end up with something that is genuinely yours.
What about plugins?
We are careful with wordpress plugins because every one you add is a potential conflict, a security surface and something that needs maintaining. We stick to trusted premium plugins and when you need something that does not exist off the shelf we handle plugin development in house.
How do you handle SEO?
We believe that every marketing site should have search engine optimisation at its heart. Every page should be structured to be seo friendly with clean code for quick load times and schema so that search engines can read your site properly. We have extensive experience building high performance WordPress sites that rank well.
Will our team be able to manage it?
Yes absolutely, every site we build gives your team full control over content through the wordpress platform without needing a developer for every update. We design the editing experience around the people who will actually use it because when your editors are confident the site stays fresh and your business online presence keeps improving without being dependent on a wordpress agency for every small change.
Can you integrate with other tools?
Yes we do this regularly, We build WordPress api integrations with a CRM systems, or pulling in data from third party tools or building custom plugins that tie your wordpress functionality together with the systems your business already runs on. We have integrated with payment platforms, booking engines, property listings feeds and reporting dashboards so whatever your setup looks like we have probably connected something similar before.
How long does a build take?
Great question, this really depends on the scope, a custom website with clear project management can be live in eight to twelve weeks whilst larger wordpress development project builds with multiple integrations or complex wordpress apirequirements take longer, usually around 4-6 months. We always give you a realistic timeline upfront with complete transparency on milestones so there are no surprises and we will not start the clock until we are both clear on what we are building.
Do you design as well?
We do both, our web design team and our developers work together from the start so there is no gap between what gets presented in a mockup and what actually goes live. We use responsive design across everything we build because your site needs to work properly on every device and screen size. Good wordpress web development is design and build working together not one handed off to the other.
What happens after launch?
We offer ongoing support packages and maintenance services because launching is just the beginning. We look for wordPress updates, plugin conflicts, security patches and performance monitoring all need looking after and most businesses do not have the time or the deep understanding of the platform to manage it properly. We also handle wordpress hosting recommendations so your site runs on infrastructure that matches the quality of the build.
Do you work with ecommerce?
Yes we have built ecommerce stores on WooCommerce and Shopify for businesses who need payment gateways, product catalogues and checkout flows that actually convert. A good online store is not just a catalogue it is a sales engine and we build them to increase sales not just display products. We approach ecommerce the same way we approach everything else, understand the business needs first and then build something that meets them properly with bespoke websites that fit how your customers actually buy.
What makes you different?
We have been doing this for over a decade and we have a track record with global brands as well as ambitious smaller businesses which gives us a well versed perspective on what works and what does not. We are wordpress experts who stay across the latest trends and build future proof sites but the real difference is customer satisfaction matters more to us than billable hours. We are a small team with extensive experience and when we take on a wordpress development project we treat it like our own.
We are so pleased with the design and vibe of our new site, it’s been a great experience to work with you all and helping us capture our TwoChics vibe into a beautiful site! I wanted to particularly thank you for organising everything, dealing with all of our requests and ensuring this was a smooth experience.
Martini Siu TWO CHICS MEDIAWe partner with ambitious brands that place customer needs at the heart of their web presence
