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WordPress development for businesses that outgrew the template

Most WordPress sites start with a bought theme. It works until the business needs something the theme cannot do. Then plugins pile up, pages slow down, and every small change needs a developer.

We build WordPress sites that load fast, that your team can edit on its own, and that do not break with every plugin update. For businesses in Colorado and across the US.

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99+projects completed

8+years of experience

150%average business growth

99%success rate

What our WordPress development covers

  • Custom theme development

    A theme built for your site, which removes most of the plugins a template needs to fake the same result.

  • Speed work

    Caching, image handling, database queries and removing the plugins that slow every page.

  • Plugin development

    One custom plugin that does exactly what you need, instead of three that almost do.

  • A simpler editor

    An admin area with only the fields your team uses, so updates do not need a developer.

  • Migrations and rebuilds

    Moving to a cleaner build while keeping your URLs, so your rankings come with you.

  • Maintenance and security

    Updates, tested backups and hardening against the usual WordPress attacks.

When WordPress is the right choice

  • Your team publishes often. Staff without technical skills can add pages and posts on their own.
  • You need to launch quickly. Content editing, users and the media library already exist.
  • The site is mostly content. Marketing sites, publications and service businesses fit WordPress well.
  • You are already on WordPress and it is struggling. A rebuild on WordPress is usually cheaper and less disruptive than moving platforms.

If what you need is an application rather than a content site, we will tell you. See our web application development for that case.

Custom themesSpeed workRankings kept on rebuilds

The stack we build with

PHP for custom themes, Advanced Custom Fields for structured content, WooCommerce for stores, MySQL with tuned queries, caching at page, object and CDN level, and a staging site so nothing is tested on the live one.

How a WordPress project runs

  1. Audit what existsWe find which plugins are slow, which are fragile and which ones the site depends on.
  2. Plan the content modelPage types, fields and who edits what.
  3. Build the themeThe theme and the admin area are built together.
  4. Migrate and testContent moves over, URLs stay the same and redirects are mapped.
  5. Launch and hand overWe deploy, walk your team through the editor and write down anything that is not obvious.

Why businesses choose us for WordPress

  • Fewer plugins, not more. Replacing overlapping plugins with custom code usually makes the site faster and cuts monthly costs.
  • Rankings survive the rebuild. URLs are kept, redirects mapped and structure checked before launch. We also offer WordPress SEO services.
  • Speed is measured on real phones. Not only on a fast office connection.
  • You talk to the engineers. A small team, with no account manager in between.
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How a project runs, from brief to launch.

  1. Step 1, day 1

    Tell us what you need

    Describe the problem or the product through the contact form. A rough idea is enough.

  2. Step 2, discovery

    We map it and quote

    We look at what exists, agree the scope in writing and give you a quote before any build starts.

  3. Step 3, the build

    Short cycles you can review

    You talk to the engineers doing the work and see progress at the end of every cycle.

  4. Step 4, launch

    Launch and hand over

    We deploy, monitor the first weeks and hand over documentation your team can use.

Questions about WordPress development

Still unsure? Send us a rough brief and we will tell you what it involves and whether it is worth building.

What does WordPress development cost?

It depends on the scope, and the scope comes from an audit of your current site. Quoting before the audit would be guessing. Send us your site to start.

Will my search rankings survive a rebuild?

Yes, when the rebuild is planned for it. We keep your URLs, map redirects for anything that has to move and check titles, headings and structured data before launch.

Can my team still edit the site afterwards?

Yes. The admin area is built around the edits your team makes, with only the fields they need.

Why is my WordPress site slow?

Usually too many plugins, large images, slow database queries or third-party scripts on every page. An audit shows which ones, and most are fixable without starting over.

Do I need custom development or will a theme do?

If a theme does what you need with few plugins, keep it. Custom work pays off when you are fighting the theme or stacking plugins to get basic features.

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Tell us what your site will not do

Describe what your team cannot change without a developer, or what has been slow since launch. We will tell you whether to rebuild or fix what you have.

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