Restaurant+30%
online bookings
Local Bistro
A menu that loads instantly, bookings that work on a phone, and a Google profile that finally shows up at dinner time.
- HTML menu
- Reservations
- Local SEO
WordPress development
WordPress done properly, for once
Custom themes, real block patterns, and a plugin list you can count on one hand. If your current site runs Elementor plus thirty-eight plugins and takes six seconds to load, this is the fix.
WordPress Development
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Plugins, typical
Down from 30+ on sites we inherit.
0%
Median load-time cut
On rebuild projects, measured on mobile.
4–7
Weeks, typical
Custom theme, content migrated.
The short version
Custom WordPress development without the bloat
WordPress powers something like two in five websites, and it deserves better than the reputation it's earned. The reputation comes from stacked page builders, themes shipping every feature imaginable, and plugin sprawl nobody audited.
We build custom themes against the block editor with registered patterns, so your team composes pages from sections we designed rather than dragging widgets into a grid. Every plugin has to justify itself — if it exists to do something forty lines of theme code can do, we write the forty lines.
Where WordPress is genuinely the right call: teams already trained on it, sites needing WooCommerce, and organisations with a content workflow built around WordPress roles. Where it isn't, we'll say so.
What you end up with
- A custom theme with no page builder in the render path
- Plugin count usually under eight, each one justified in writing
- Load times in the 1–2 second range instead of 5–8
- Updates, backups, and security hardening set up rather than assumed
Scope
What WordPress work covers
Custom theme build
Built to your design, not a marketplace theme reskinned. Block-editor native with registered patterns for every section type.
Block patterns and ACF fields
Reusable sections your editors insert and fill. Structured fields where free-form editing would break the layout.
Plugin audit and cleanup
Every plugin reviewed for necessity, performance cost, and update history. Abandoned ones replaced or removed.
Performance work
Object and page caching, image optimisation, deferred scripts, database cleanup. Measured before and after.
Security hardening
Login protection, file permissions, disabled editor access, WAF rules, and automated offsite backups you can restore from.
WooCommerce setup
Products, variations, tax and shipping rules, payment gateways, and a checkout that isn't the stock three-step maze.
How it runs
The process, stage by stage
- 01
Audit
For existing sites: plugin inventory, theme review, performance baseline, and a list of what's actively dangerous.
- 02
Plan
What stays, what goes, what gets rewritten. Then a staging site so nothing changes on production first.
- 03
Build
Theme, patterns, and fields built on staging. You review on a real URL with real content.
- 04
Optimise
Caching, images, scripts, and database. Re-measured against the baseline so the gain is a number, not a claim.
- 05
Launch and secure
Cutover, redirects, hardening, backups, and an update schedule someone is actually responsible for.
Tools
What we build it with
Picked per project, not per fashion cycle. Here's the usual shortlist and why each one is on it.
- WordPress
- Latest stable, block editor native
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Structured content for editors
- WooCommerce
- When the store needs to live in WordPress
- WP Rocket / LiteSpeed
- Page and object caching
- Cloudflare
- CDN, image resizing, WAF
- WP-CLI
- Scripted migrations and maintenance
Investment
What it costs
Fixed price against a defined scope. If a brief isn't specific enough to price properly, we'll say so instead of padding it.
Rescue
Keep your current design, fix what's broken underneath.
$199
- Timeline
- 4 days
- Best for
- Slow, plugin-heavy sites
- Plugin audit and cleanup
- Performance optimisation
- Security hardening and backups
- Before/after performance report
- New design
- Custom theme
Most chosen
Custom theme
New design, custom theme, content migrated.
From $599
- Timeline
- 1 week
- Best for
- Most WordPress rebuilds
- Custom block-editor theme
- Block patterns for every section
- ACF field groups
- Content migration
- Performance and security setup
- Editor training
WooCommerce
Store build on top of a custom theme.
From $999
- Timeline
- 2 weeks
- Best for
- Retailers staying on WordPress
- Everything in Custom theme
- WooCommerce configuration
- Custom checkout flow
- Payment and shipping setup
- Product import
- Order and inventory integrations
Proof
WordPress Development in practice
Real projects, with the numbers and the parts that took longer than planned.
The menu was the thing. It used to be a PDF that took forever to open and I had to email someone every time we changed a price. Now my manager edits it from her phone between services. Bookings are up about a third, and I get fewer calls asking what time we open.
Sectors
Where we've done this before
Industry context changes the brief. These are the ones whose pitfalls we already know.
Pairs well with
Services that usually run alongside this one
Further reading
How we think about this
Written by the people who do the work.
Development10 min read
WordPress vs Webflow vs Next.js: How We Actually Choose
No winner. Three honest profiles, the cost of each over three years, and the specific questions that decide it.
Read itDevelopment11 min read
Core Web Vitals: What Actually Fixes Each Metric
LCP, CLS, and INP explained by cause rather than definition — and the specific fixes that moved each one on real sites, in the order we try them.
Read itWeb Design10 min read
The Website Redesign Checklist We Actually Use
Redesigns lose traffic when nobody owns the boring parts. This is the checklist we run before, during, and after — including the redirect map that saves the project.
Read itQuestions
The things people ask before we start
No. Those builders are why so many WordPress sites are slow — they ship a large runtime and generate deeply nested markup for a layout that could be twenty lines of HTML. We build against the native block editor instead, which gives editors similar flexibility with a fraction of the weight.
Next step
Let's talk about wordpress development
Tell us what the site needs to do. You'll get a straight answer on scope, timeline and cost — usually inside one working day.
Rather write first?hello@quesiono.com— we reply within one business day.