WordPress built for
editors who move fast
and code that holds up.

Traditional WordPress is right for most projects. It is faster to build, has a simpler hosting footprint, and gives editorial teams a complete interface without the complexity of managing a separate frontend deployment. Headless WordPress makes sense when the frontend team needs a specific framework (Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit) for reasons beyond WordPress - most commonly performance requirements that cannot be met with server-side rendered WordPress, a need to share components across multiple platforms, or an existing design system built in React that the site must conform to rather than the other way around. The hosting and deployment overhead of a decoupled architecture is real: two codebases, two deployment pipelines, preview mode configuration, and ISR cache invalidation to manage. We will tell you whether that overhead is worth it for your specific project before you commit.

Multisite is the right architecture when you need to manage multiple sites from a single WordPress installation, share users across sites, or give sub-sites access to a shared plugin and theme library. We have built Multisite networks for publishers with 40+ sub-sites and for SaaS platforms offering client microsites as a product feature. The key decisions - subdomain vs subdirectory, shared vs per-site themes, network-activated vs site-level plugin management, and database table prefix strategy - need to be made before the first site is created, because changing them later is expensive. We scope these decisions in discovery before any code is written.

A custom WordPress theme with a bespoke Gutenberg block library, content migration from an existing CMS, and a standard plugin set runs between £12,000 and £35,000 depending on page template count, block complexity, and whether WooCommerce is in scope. Headless WordPress with a Next.js frontend adds £8,000 to £22,000 to that baseline, depending on content type complexity and caching strategy. A standalone commercial WordPress plugin with a settings UI, REST API endpoints, and a PHPUnit test suite typically runs between £6,000 and £18,000. Every project gets a fixed-price quote with a detailed scope document before you commit.

Yes, and we do this regularly. Our starting point is always a paid technical audit: we review the theme architecture, active plugin list (with update status and known CVE check), database query performance via Query Monitor, Core Web Vitals, security configuration, and hosting environment. We give you a written report with a prioritised remediation list. Around half the audits we run result in targeted improvements; the other half identify structural issues that require a rebuild of the theme or a migration to a cleaner setup. We will tell you which category applies before you proceed.

Every site we maintain runs on a staging environment that mirrors production exactly - same PHP version, same database, same plugin versions. Major WordPress core updates and WooCommerce major releases are applied to staging first, run through an automated Cypress test suite covering critical user paths (checkout, form submission, member login), and reviewed manually for visual regressions before being applied to production. We maintain an update log for every client site and send advance notice before major updates. Our clients have not experienced a production outage caused by a WordPress or plugin update since we introduced this process.

Security for WordPress comes in layers. At the server level: PHP running as the site user (not www-data), file permissions that prevent WordPress from writing to its own PHP files, wp-config.php moved above the webroot, and fail2ban configured to block repeated failed login attempts. At the application level: the wp-admin login URL changed, two-factor authentication enforced for all admin accounts, user registration disabled if not needed, and XML-RPC disabled unless a specific integration requires it. At the monitoring level: Patchstack or Wordfence scanning for plugin vulnerabilities, a weekly automated file integrity check, and uptime monitoring with alerting. We audit every new client site against this list and close gaps before they become incidents.