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WordPress development that your team can actually run

Custom themes, clean content models and a small, deliberate set of dependencies. Built so an editor can change a page without calling a developer, and so the next developer can read what we wrote.

  • Custom theme development, not a purchased theme reconfigured
  • Content modelled around your business, not around a page builder
  • A deliberately short plugin list, each one justified
  • Documented handover and editor training
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What does WordPress development with DEVIEC involve?

We build a custom WordPress theme around your content rather than fitting your content into a purchased theme. That means modelling the actual pages your business needs, building templates for them, keeping the plugin list short and justified, and handing over a site your team can edit confidently. Typical engagements run from a focused brochure site through to multi-section sites with custom post types, structured content and third-party integrations.

  • Custom theme, custom templates and custom fields where they earn their place
  • No page-builder lock-in unless you specifically ask for one
  • Site speed and accessibility treated as build requirements, not extras

Why people call us

The WordPress problems we are usually brought in to solve

If more than two of these sound familiar, the underlying issue is usually architectural rather than cosmetic.

  • Editing anything breaks the layout

    The design depends on a builder's nested rows and columns, so a small text change shifts the whole section. Editors stop touching the site.

  • Thirty plugins, and nobody knows why

    Each one was added to solve something. Several now overlap, two are abandoned, and updates are avoided because something always breaks.

  • The site is slow and nobody can say where

    Caching plugins have been layered on top of the problem rather than addressing the queries, images and scripts causing it.

  • Content does not fit the templates

    The theme offers a blog and a page. Everything else — services, locations, team, case studies — is forced into one of those two shapes.

  • The previous developer left no trail

    Customisations live in the theme's functions file, a mystery plugin and the database. There is no documentation and no staging site.

  • Updates are a gamble

    There is no staging environment, so every WordPress or plugin update is applied live and hoped over.

Scope

What a WordPress engagement includes

Adjusted to the project, but this is the shape of it. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted before it is built, never after.

Architecture

Decided before a line of template code is written.

  • Page inventory and content model
  • Custom post types and taxonomies where they are justified
  • Custom fields for structured content
  • URL structure and redirect plan

Build

A custom theme, written to WordPress coding standards.

  • Custom theme with per-template layouts
  • Responsive implementation from 320 pixels upward
  • Keyboard operation, focus states and semantic structure
  • Forms with server-side validation and spam control

Content

Getting the words and images in is part of the project, not an afterthought.

  • Content migration from the existing site
  • Image optimisation and alt text
  • Metadata, canonical URLs and structured data
  • Internal linking between related pages

Performance

Measured, not asserted.

  • Explicit image dimensions and appropriate loading priority
  • Minimal JavaScript, deferred where it is not critical
  • Server and object caching configured for the host
  • Core Web Vitals checked on the templates that matter

Security

A baseline appropriate to a marketing site.

  • Output escaping and input sanitisation throughout
  • Least-privilege user accounts
  • Automated backups with a tested restore
  • A documented update process

Handover

The part most projects skip.

  • Written documentation of how the site is built
  • A recorded walkthrough for editors
  • Accounts and code transferred to your ownership
  • An agreed maintenance arrangement, or none at all

Approach

Why we keep the plugin list short

Every plugin is a dependency: code you did not write, maintained by someone you do not know, with its own update cycle and its own security surface. Some are excellent and entirely worth it. Most sites we inherit are carrying a dozen they no longer need.

Our default is to use native WordPress capability first, add a plugin only where it does a well-defined job better than we could, and write the rest ourselves. Where we do add one, we record what it does, why it is there and who maintains it, so the decision can be reviewed later rather than inherited blindly.

  • Fewer moving parts to update, break and audit
  • Faster pages, because unused plugin assets are not loaded
  • A dependency register handed over with the site
  • Custom functionality kept in a plugin when it must survive a theme change
Source code displayed on a monitor during theme development

Delivery

How a WordPress build runs

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Business goal, audiences, content inventory, integrations and the constraints nobody mentions until week three.

    You receive: Written brief and content model

  2. 02

    Structure

    Page inventory, templates, URL plan and the redirect map if we are replacing an existing site.

    You receive: Approved sitemap and scope

  3. 03

    Design

    Key templates resolved at mobile and desktop widths, reviewed before build.

    You receive: Approved template designs

  4. 04

    Theme build

    Custom theme development on a staging URL you can watch progress on.

    You receive: Staging site to review

  5. 05

    Content and testing

    Migration, content entry, then responsive, accessibility, performance and form testing.

    You receive: Signed-off test results

  6. 06

    Launch and handover

    Go live with redirects and monitoring in place, then training and documentation.

    You receive: Live site, documentation and training

Stack

What we build with

WordPress

  • Custom themes
  • Custom post types
  • Custom fields
  • Block editor
  • Multisite
  • WP-CLI

Front end

  • Semantic HTML
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vanilla JavaScript
  • Responsive layout
  • WCAG 2.2 AA practices

Integration

  • REST APIs
  • CRM and email platforms
  • Payment gateways
  • Booking systems
  • Analytics and consent

Questions

WordPress development questions

Can you work with our existing WordPress site instead of rebuilding it?
Often, yes. If the underlying structure is sound, improving it is cheaper and less disruptive than a rebuild. We start with an audit of the theme, plugins, hosting and database, and give you an honest comparison of what improving it costs against what replacing it costs. Roughly half the sites we assess are worth keeping.
Will we be able to edit the site ourselves?
That is the point of the way we build. Each template exposes the fields that are meant to change and protects the ones that are not, so an editor can update copy, images and links without breaking a layout. You get a recorded walkthrough and written documentation at handover.
Do you use Elementor, Divi or WPBakery?
Not by default. They make editing feel flexible and make sites heavy, slow and difficult to migrate. If your team already relies on one and wants to keep it, we will build to work with it and tell you what it costs in performance. Otherwise we build custom templates.
How long does a WordPress build take?
A focused site is usually a matter of weeks; a larger site with migration and integrations takes longer. The variable that moves timelines most is content readiness on the client side, which is why the content responsibilities are agreed in writing during the planning stage.
What happens after launch?
You can take the site away fully documented and manage it yourself, or move onto a care plan for updates, backups, monitoring and monthly improvement time. Both are genuine options and we will not make the handover version deliberately harder.

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