WordPress is extended using “plugins” – extra features coded by developers all around the world. This is great for making your website do what you need it to for a fraction of the cost of bespoke development – but there can be a cost to be paid in site performance, stability and security.

We can help advise you on when to use plugins, and which ones, when to get us to code something specifically for you (inc. making bespoke WordPress plugins), or when WordPress just isn’t quite right for your job.

We can also help you keep your site up to date with regular plugin upgrades accompanied by thorough Test Plans so that any dependencies don’t affect the functionality of your site when things are updated without you knowing.

If your site is already full of plugins and you do think it’s affecting performance, contact us for a plugin audit.

We work with WordPress every day, as an agency have been using it for 19 years, and our Directors have been using it for even longer. We aren’t “just” a WordPress agency – we pick the right tool for the job – but we are experts in WordPress, and, because we’re coders and designers, we can take your WordPress in whatever direction you need. We aren’t reliant on plugins, we understand security and the importance of keeping code tidy and high performing, and we can get an awful lot out of WordPress!

If you know you want WordPress – maybe because your team are already familiar with it, or you’ve heard great things, we’d love to work with you on a new WordPress website. If you’re on the fence and have questions, we can chat it through with you and compare WordPress to lots of other options, large and small.

All WordPresses are not created equally – if you’ve heard great things but you’ve seen some bad implementations, don’t let that put you off. Our clients rave about how easy it us to update, and we can help you keep your site secure and fast to load.

We inherit a lot of WordPress websites. By this we mean we didn’t build your site but for whatever reason you’ve outgrown the developers who did. Maybe they were a design agency and now your business is scaling you need a more technical team, maybe you’ve found they focus more on new builds than ongoing maintenance.

We’ll take on your existing WordPress website and help you make it what it needs to be, as we’ve been doing with Jericho Writers for the past few years. We can help it limp along until you’re ready for a new website, or we can patch up the old site and give it a new lease of life!

Sometimes people come to us looking for a new agency at the same time as having a rebrand, so our first job is to dramatically change how their existing website looks and feels. This is exactly how we started working with single parent charity Gingerbread, who we’ve now worked with for years.

Whether we’re new to working together or not, we can help with a deep rebrand or a simple brand refresh. We can do the design and development inhouse, or we can work with your design team / agency, advising them on how to make cost-effective design decisions to introduce the new look and feel to an existing website in just a few days.