WordPress Web Design & Development

WordPress sites your team can actually edit, built on foundations that hold up to SEO and to traffic. Clean themes, a sane plugin stack, and structure that does not fight you later.

Preston Vawdrey, WordPress developer, standing in front of streams of code with a content dashboard, plugin pieces and page builder blocks behind him

WordPress Development Services I Offer

Theme Design & Build

A site built around what it has to do commercially, then designed back from there. Editable by your team without a developer for every copy change.

Site Speed & Core Web Vitals

Hosting, images, caching and code cleaned up so the site loads fast on a phone on mobile data, which is where most of your visitors actually are.

Technical SEO Foundations

Crawlable structure, clean URLs, schema markup and a sitemap that reflects reality, so the content work that follows has somewhere solid to stand.

Maintenance & Security

Updates, backups and vulnerability scanning on a schedule. WordPress problems are almost always neglect problems rather than platform problems.

How a WordPress Project Works

01

Strategy & Scope

We agree what the site has to do, which pages carry that load, and what your team needs to be able to edit without help.

02

Design & Build

Built on a staging environment with a plugin stack chosen for what you will actually maintain.

03

Technical Pass

Speed, schema, redirects and tracking all get checked before launch, not after someone notices.

04

Launch & Maintain

The site goes live, then stays updated, backed up and monitored rather than drifting for two years.

WordPress Pricing

Priced per page, so you can see what a site costs before we start. A ten page site is $1,500.

Standard

$150/page

Up to 19 pages, billed per page as the site is built.

  • Design and build per page
  • Mobile-first and responsive
  • Technical SEO foundations
  • Analytics and tracking setup
Get Started
Most Popular

Volume

$135/page

20 to 25 pages, at 10% off the standard rate.

  • Everything in Standard
  • 10% volume discount
  • Template system for repeated layouts
  • Content migration support
Get Started

Larger Builds

Let's scope it

Past 25 pages the work stops being a page count. Book a call and we will scope it properly.

  • Custom scope and timeline
  • Information architecture planning
  • Integrations and custom functionality
  • Agreed fixed price
Get Started

Hosting and domain costs are yours and stay in your name. Ongoing maintenance is quoted separately.

WordPress Development FAQs

Is WordPress still a good choice in 2026?
For a content-led site that your team needs to edit, yes. It runs a large share of the web, the ecosystem is deep, and it does not lock you in. The reason WordPress has a poor reputation is usually an unmaintained plugin stack rather than the platform.
Do you use page builders like Elementor or Divi?
Only when the team genuinely needs that kind of editing freedom, because builders add weight that shows up in Core Web Vitals. Where a block theme will do the job, that is what I build.
Can you fix a slow WordPress site rather than rebuild it?
Often, yes, and that is usually the cheaper answer. Hosting, image handling, caching and a bloated plugin stack account for most of it. I will tell you when a rebuild is genuinely the better investment.
Do you handle hosting and maintenance?
I will set up hosting that suits the site and handle updates, backups and security scanning on a schedule. You own the hosting account and the site, always.

Ready for a WordPress Site That Performs?

Let's look at what you have now, what it needs to do, and the shortest route between the two.

Interested in: WordPress Web Design

Prefer to talk? Book a free call

Let's Talk