WordPress Development Agency

We make beautiful, functional WordPress sites.
Looking for a WordPress agency? Look no further.

Easy to use? Check. Flexible? Check. Content editing super powers? The ‘Swiss army knife’ of content management systems? Double check. That’s WordPress in a nutshell, and just a few of the reasons we continue to be huge fans.

Want a flexible, intuitive CMS that puts content first and is easy for your team to work with? WordPress is a fantastic choice. Get in touch today for a free consultation on how we could build your ideal solution on WordPress.

Benefits of Wordpress

User-friendly CMS

Wordpress is made to be easy to use. Suitable for all levels, from beginners to advanced CMS users, this is a CMS that simply works with you, whoever you are.

Easy integrations

Easy to integrate with social media platforms, email tools and other third-party applications, Wordpress also boasts a huge marketplace of over 20,000 plugins and extensions to choose from.

All about content

Content should be at the heart of any CMS, and Wordpress is the CMS made for content producers, with all the features you need to make sure your content hits home.

User role management

Give team members and external members as many different levels of access as you need to manage content, and easily track the changes they make.

Economical

With so many basic features straight out of the box, and open source to boot, Wordpress gives you the most ‘bang for buck’ of any CMS. If budget is a concern, Wordpress should be your first port of call.

Ultra flexible

WordPress can do just about anything, from small sites to large corporate builds. Famously flexible, it's the Swiss army knife of CMS. You'll have unmatched ability to switch up layouts and layer functionality to make your content shine.

Our Wordpress Approach

Secure

WordPress, being so well-known and widely used, can be a target if it is not well-maintained. Our approach is security-first, and we have well-honed processes to maintain WordPress sites from launch thereafter. You can find out more about our web development support services here.

Defined

As a counterpoint to its hyper flexibility, WordPress works best when backed by developers and content creators using defined processes. We apply our practised formula for WordPress to every project, producing robust, well-structured results every time.

Content-focused

At each step, we consider the experience of the site’s end users: those that will be creating and consuming the content that the CMS will house. CMS stands for ‘content management system’, and we keep content at the heart of every digital solution that we engineer.

Our Wordpress Development Process

Our development process is managed and systematic; each phase serves a purpose.
This is the process we employ for every successful site that we build.

  • Discovery
  • Technical Specification
  • UX Wireframing
  • UX Design
  • Development
  • Testing & Content
  • Launch

Discovery

The discovery phase is essentially a ‘research’ phase, where we focus on discovering the key information that will allow us to build a website that services all of your users’ essential needs.

Technical Specification

The technical specification phase is where we take all that we learned through our discovery sessions with you, and make a defining specification for the project.

UX Wireframing

UX wireframing is the process whereby the ‘bones’ of the site’s structure and functionality are laid out prior to commencing the design phase.

Design

The design phase is where the ‘look and feel’ of your site comes alive, and our collective vision is crystallised into a set of web designs, accurately reflecting how the site will look when coded.

Development

The nuts and bolts of any website build. This is where the code happens, and your website is built brick by brick. We code the designs into templates and integrate with the backend code to create the bespoke features the application requires to publish the content.

Testing & Content

The testing and content phase centres on ensuring that the new code looks and functions wonderfully across different browsers and devices, with the site content in place.

Launch

It’s time for your website’s imminent launch. The launch stage includes careful preparation, and is usually composed of infrastructure setup, smoke testing, redirects, and launch.

Uses for WordPress

eCommerce

WordPress is excellent for eCommerce, going for gold with popular eCommerce integrations such as Woocommerce and Shopify.

Brochure

With content at its heart, WordPress makes brilliant brochureware sites, with great options for displaying media, and editing and creating content.

Marketing

Make landing pages that convert, and make sure your messaging hits home. When it comes to getting content live, quickly, WordPress wins. You'll also be able to choose from a large number of super Marketing integrations, such as Yoast SEO or Hubspot.

Intranet

Multifunctional WordPress works even for the type of applications that you might not expect. Its versatility makes it a great choice for workplace Intranet, and hyper easy for staff to use and engage with.

Blog

Blogging was where WordPress began, and that core functionality still shines. Its 'post' and 'page' structure makes it an excellent blog, whether personal, professional, news-based or aggregator.

Business

With WordPress, it's easy to build and structure pages on your products and services, and encourage customers to convert.

Wordpress FAQs

WordPress is excellent for a range of site builds, and that’s why we’re proud to be a WordPress agency. It’s flexible, economical and fantastic for a range of uses. It’s also extremely easy to use for non-technical staff, meaning onboarding costs tend to be low.

Yes, we are experts at developing custom themes for WordPress, and have developed custom themes for many clients. Get in touch today for a free consultation on custom theme development for your WordPress project.

Rest assured, we never give our clients a generic, off-the-shelf theme that looks like any other website. Our team of experienced WordPress developers and designers will make sure you have a theme to differentiate you from your competitors and impress customers and site users. fastfwd offers (in our opinion) some of the best WordPress custom theme development services in the UK.

Absolutely. Our site migration services are top notch, and our technical and SEO teams have years of experience in migrating websites to WordPress, with an eye to maintaining (and ultimately improving!) your site’s Google search rankings.

Our team of WordPress experts will make sure you have a smooth transfer, no matter where your site is hosted. Wondering if our WordPress migration service is right for you? If you find yourself in any of the following situations, it could be:

  • Do you need to update your current WordPress site with a new design?
  • Are you moving from one hosting provider to another?
  • Do you want to make sure that no data is lost (i.e. blog posts)?
  • Are you upgrading from a static HTML site to a WordPress one?
  • Would you like to migrate from Umbraco to WordPress?
  • Is your site on a development server and now needs to go live?
  • Are you trying to migrate your blog posts from an external blogging platform to your own WordPress site?

WordPress, as an open-source platform, has an extremely active developer community, and regularly releases security patches and updates. Providing that you keep up to date with updates, you should be well-covered from a security perspective.

Additionally, WordPress Marketplace has a huge plugin library with an array of excellent security plugins, such as Wordfence or Stream. From firewalls to change-tracking, there is a plugin for almost any type of security concern.

Our development and devops teams oversee a suite of WordPress-specific checks, balances and infrastructure recommendations to keep each of the WordPress sites we manage secure.

Yes, as an expert WordPress agency, many of our website support packages are WordPress-specialised. We’re well-practised in maintaining WordPress websites, and our WordPress support packages cover monthly core and plugin updates, as well as new feature development and amends to your existing site code.

Our devops team also offer infrastructure expertise to keep your website uptime and security at optimum levels, while our customer support team are well versed in training client staff in using the WordPress CMS.

Some of our WordPress support areas include:
Bug fixes
Design Improvements
Custom modifications
WordPress updates
Hosting and domain name setup
Back-ups
Loading speed optimisation
Security

Yes, we can, and we have done so for numerous WordPress sites that we have built.

If you are seeking to implement a specific feature on your website, you could certainly benefit from our WordPress plugin development service. Our dedicated team of WordPress developers can create bespoke plugins and widgets from scratch to match your individual needs and specifications. We analyse the requirements of our clients in-depth to inform the development of high-performance, scalable plugins that exceed your expectations.

Any plugin created will integrate seamlessly into your current website and be compatible with most versions of WordPress. You can also be assured that they will be bug-free and highly secure.

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