Less code to begin with
A hand written theme and few plugins. The builder framework that slows most WordPress sites down was never installed.
Elementor and Divi exist so that anyone can build any kind of website. That sounds like a plus until you see what it means for your site. You get the code for every feature the builder offers, loaded on every page, including the hundreds you will never turn on. Your site only needs to do one thing, sell what you sell.
A plugin is code somebody else wrote, updates when they feel like it, and might abandon next year. Every one you install is a small bet on a stranger.
We would rather write the feature ourselves. When we rebuild a site, we usually bring it down from somewhere between twenty and forty plugins to about five.
Fewer plugins is not a style preference. It’s less code to load, fewer doors to lock, and fewer things that can break while you sleep.
Come to us for the complex things. Don’t pay us to change a phone number.
This is the part people don’t believe until they see it, and it’s the direct result of building on the core instead of on a builder. Here’s exactly what you get to do yourself.
We will show you exactly what your team can do without us, on your screen, before you commit to anything.
See it on a callNothing clever happens here. The sites are fast because there is less of everything, less code, fewer plugins, no builder framework. After that we just do the normal things properly.
A hand written theme and few plugins. The builder framework that slows most WordPress sites down was never installed.
Modern formats, correct dimensions, lazy loading below the fold. On most sites we take over, this one fix buys more speed than everything else combined.
Page caching plus a CDN. Host level conflicts get sorted before launch, because finding them after is how sites get mysteriously slow.
Sites we host run on our own server behind Cloudflare, capped at just a few website per server. Budget hosts stack thousands on one server.
The security concern comes up on almost every call. The platform is fine. What gets WordPress sites hacked is old plugins and abandoned themes, code nobody is watching anymore.
We install very little and write the rest, so most of the usual ways in simply do not exist on our builds. What is installed stays updated, by a person, with eyes on the site afterward.
Build it by writing code instead of borrowing it, and most of the attack surface simply isn’t there.
About half the calls we take include some version of this. The stories differ. The cause rarely does.
Usually a theme built on shortcodes. It holds together until the platform moves, and every skipped upgrade makes the next one scarier.
Builder templates wired into raw custom fields. Flexible on launch day, frozen ever since.
Nine times out of ten it is an ordinary plugin with a brand name on it. We will open it up and tell you what it does.
Whether yours needs a cleanup or a rebuild depends on what is under the hood, and we do not guess at that. Send the URL over and we will tell you which it is. Sometimes the answer is that you do not need us at all.
Get Started TodayEvery project gets all of this, whatever the size. Anything outside the list gets named and priced before you sign.
Moving from an existing site is our work, not your team’s. Pages, posts, products, images, and documents come across with their formatting, every URL that earns traffic keeps its address, and large sites get scripted and then checked page by page. Nobody on your side exports spreadsheets or spends a month pasting content into a new CMS.
Get Started TodayPlan on eight to fourteen weeks for most business sites. Here is the breakdown, because some of those weeks belong to us and some belong to you.
Your content being ready at kickoff. Copy, photos, and logins in hand before week one means nothing sits waiting. Fast feedback does the rest, a few days on each round instead of a few weeks. Team size has nothing to do with it.
Size, mostly. A small site with a handful of pages sits at the bottom of that range. A large one with custom templates and a CRM connection sits at the top. All of it gets planned and priced during architecture, so a bigger site means a longer schedule, never a surprise one.
We host the sites we build, on our own server behind Cloudflare. Nobody is required to. It is just the fastest way to run a site we are responsible for.
Taken every day and kept off the server the site runs on, so a bad day is an hour of work rather than a rebuild.
Core, theme and plugin updates run by someone who then looks at the site. Automatic updates are how sites quietly break.
Uptime and malware monitoring, plus one point of contact who already knows your site.
You keep your domain, full admin on the CMS and access to your files. If you ever decide to leave, we hand the site over and you take it with you. We want you to work with us. We don’t want you stuck with us.
For pricing and more information please visit our website maintenance page.
An AI reading your site and quoting it has nothing to do with the site running WordPress. It has to do with how the site is put together. Before anything gets designed, we map what the site needs to say. What you sell, who buys it, what those buyers search before they are ready to call, and which of those searches end in a sale rather than a browse. All of it goes into a spreadsheet you sign off on, page by page, before a single layout exists.
From there the mechanics are simple. Each page needs one clear job. Headings need to say what sits under them. The schema needs to spell out what the business is. And somewhere on the site, the answer to a real question needs to exist as a passage that makes sense on its own. The platform is not the variable. The build is.
Three with a number attached, matching what we show everywhere else on the site.
pages migrated onto WordPress with every ranking URL preserved
visits a month on WordPress and WooCommerce
courses restructured into custom post types
Eight to fourteen weeks for most business sites. One to two weeks of architecture, one to two of wireframes, two to four of design and approval, four to six of build, then QA and launch. A custom plugin or CRM integration pushes toward the top of that range. Anyone quoting four weeks for a custom site is quoting you a template.
Most business sites land between $10,000 and $25,000 depending on page count and complexity. Multi location, franchise, and ecommerce builds run $30,000 to $50,000. Payment is staged, 30 percent to start, 40 percent when you can see the site in WordPress, 30 percent at launch. A template site costs a fraction of this, and there is nothing wrong with one. It is a different product. Full detail on the pricing page.
Yes. That is most of the reason we build this way. Sections copy between pages, sitewide blocks update everywhere from one edit, and new locations or service pages come with templates you fill in. Training is recorded on your own site, not pulled from a generic WordPress course.
A builder loads the code for every feature it offers on every page, used or not, and in three years a new look means a new build instead of a restyle. That said, if your builder site is working and you are happy, keep it. We would rather say that than sell a rebuild you do not need.
Not by itself. The sites that get hacked almost always get in through an abandoned plugin or an unmaintained theme. Our builds carry about five plugins, we write the rest of the functionality ourselves, and updates get applied by a person instead of running unattended.
Usually, yes. Sometimes the answer is a cleanup of what you have, sometimes it is a rebuild on cleaner foundations. We audit it first and tell you which, with the reasoning in writing, before you spend anything on either.
No. Every ranking URL stays exactly where it is, and anything that must move gets a one to one redirect. We have moved sites with over 1,000 pages without losing positions, and the crawl happens before design, not after launch.
Fully. Domain, hosting, and every account sit in your name from day one. If you leave, we move the site to your own account. There is no mandatory maintenance fee and nothing proprietary holding you here.
Yes. Audits, fixes, speed work, and facelifts on existing WordPress sites are a steady part of the workload, including sites other agencies built. You do not need a full rebuild to work with us.
Yes, on WooCommerce. Catalogs in the thousands of SKUs, product feeds, and checkout flows, hand coded the same way as everything else. If your situation points to Shopify instead, we are a Shopify Partner and we will say so.
How many plugins, what’s slowing it down, what’s stopping you editing it yourself. On a call, on your screen. If it doesn’t need a rebuild, we’ll say so.