Custom WordPress Development Services
Unlike other WordPress focused firms, we ensure your WordPress theme is not a cookie-cutter solution and will collaborate with you to create the web experience you, and your customers, are looking for.
- 10+ Years of Custom WordPress Development Experience – We are exclusively a WordPress specialized agency, and over the course of a decade have custom developed 400+ WordPress themes. Our expertise with the platform is proven, and we maintain our leading edge by continually documenting and improving our development process with every project. We’ll build your website right, making it flexible, and giving you the ability to scale as your business grows.
- No Junior Developers – Our development team is comprised only of seasoned individuals. This experience means our team has the capability to deal with complex technical issues, solve pain points, and complete your project as desired and on-time. Furthermore, our developers are well versed in communicating directly with clients, and are able to work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders (without the tech jargon). Most agencies don’t provide direct access to developers, but we believe this is critical to 100% project satisfaction and clearly addressing the needs of our clients.
- Responsive – Ever have to wait for more than a week to get a response? Not here! We pride ourselves on quick response time, usually within the business day. We only work with a handful of clients at a given time, which allows us to focus on your project and provide the level of support you deserve.
Custom WordPress Website Development Process
WordPress Development
Once design mockups have been approved we begin phase 2 of our professional web design services guided by user experience web design principles – the development of your custom WordPress theme. This involves building out the back end and content management system to meet the specific needs of your business, followed by the front end where we finalize the website’s look and feel. Finally, we integrate the systems necessary for the operation of your site and your business online, which may include CRM, email marketing, marketing automation, external databases, and more.
Marketing Integration
Quality Assurance
We always test the display and functionality of your website across the most common browsers, mobile devices, and desktop resolutions. Your team and key stakeholders will also be able to test the website via a demo version, which is accessible via your own computers and devices. While this demo site is more or less a finished product, we’ll provide two further rounds of bug fixes to take care of anything that might not work properly. Lastly page speed testing is performed to ensure fast load times. Our general standard is 2 seconds or faster for optimal user experience.
- Browser Testing
- Desktop, Tablet & Mobile Testing
- Page Speed Testing
Site Launch
Before your site is launched into the wild, we offer a screen share training session to your team to instruct on how to manage content in the WordPress CMS, perform basic SEO, and make edits to menus, forms, pages, and meta descriptions. For future reference, you’ll also have access to a library of 50+ training videos that cover the operation and functionality of the back end of your site. Following training and uploading of all unique content we’ll schedule a date for site launch. This process covers 15 standardized checkpoints for launch-critical tasks, including SSL install and configuration, placement of 301 redirects from your old site, sitemap submission via Google Search Console, Google Analytics setup, and more.
- Deployment
- Training & Support
- Maintenance
Maintenance
Once your website is live our focus shifts to website security. WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world and powers 34% of all websites on the web! This high volume of usage makes an attractive target for hackers and malware attacks. On a monthly basis our development team will install the latest WordPress update (when applicable), tests plugins, and checks compatibility with your WordPress theme in a developer environment. This ensures that any potential conflicts and errors are dealt with before updates are pushed to production (live).
Daily backups are recorded for your website to allow us to rollback the site to full functionality if a member of your team accidentally breaks site functionality, or if the site falls victim to hacking.
Hosting is included free of charge and we use the best-in-class WordPress specific dedicated server to provide secure and reliable performance.
- Website security
- Software updates & testing by our development team in staging
- Insurance policy restoring your site for any reason
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